Graphic Design Manager - Remote - Eagle Foods, LLC

At Eagle Foods we are builders.  We are builders of brands, categories, and people.  Eagle Foods enjoys a rich heritage with brands that have proven category leadership for more than 150 years.  Eagle is a diversified food company producing and marketing sweetened condensed and evaporated milk, snacks and convenient meal solutions products.  As a company, Eagle Foods is passionate about fostering an entrepreneurial spirit that boldly builds better people and better brands while focusing on the positive impact our company, our products and our people have on the world.  Eagle Foods has a bold family of brands that consumers have come to rely on for decades, including Eagle Brand® Sweetened Condensed Milk and Evaporated Milk, Magnolia® Sweetened Condensed Milk, PET® Milk, Popcorn Indiana, Cretors Popcorn, Helper and Suddenly Salad.  Eagle Foods products are marketed and distributed across all U.S. retail channels, including grocery stores, club stores and mass-merchandisers, as well as foodservice and export, U.S. military, and private label business.

Essential Functions

Drive a culture of creativity and curiosity via leadership of design team efforts

• Stay on top of marketplace trends and culture, shopper and consumer dynamics, and design trends and tools and infuse into design work
• Creatively lead design ideation, development, and execution for Brand innovation, packaging refreshes, regulatory and dieline updates, in-store POS and displays, online and print advertising, organic social media, coupons, tradeshows, website assets, presentation templates, and periodic corporate initiative
• Build brands’ expressions by developing look & feel, brand books, design parameters, brand guidelines, and key visual brand assets
• Prepare for and art direct photo shoots for packaging and brand assets
• Act as Brand Steward to ensure equity is strongly built and communicated consistently
• Periodically update Brand websites in WordPress platform, including updating images, photography, video, graphics, and copy
• Support organic social media with weekly assets for team to post

Manage processes, timelines, projects, and assets to ensure organization and on-time delivery

• Create, clearly communicate, and manage timelines from start to finish and within greater project timelines
• Prepare files for consumer research and customer sell-in meetings, including coordinating sales sheets and 3D mock ups
• Proof and manage routing of projects to proper departments, vendors and clients as project dictates with an eye on project timing requirements and schedule steps accordingly for efficient timing.
• Release files to vendor, archive assets as released to print, and obtain copies of final assets post-production
• Archives post-production files per production guidelines
• Maintain the department’s project tracking database, tracking and reporting the intake of requests, job status, job approvals
• Actively and efficiently catalog and manage all files into corporate DAM

Build and foster relationships with partners, vendors, and internal stakeholders

• Seek out optimal partners that can help elevate Brand design initiatives
• Actively initiate vendor and customer relationships to be involved and up to date on various specs required
• Collaborate with Brand and Accounting teams to lead graphics budget across projects and Brands
• Guide partner agencies in development of advertising and shopper marketing creative

Coach and develop direct report and bring the organization along in elevating creative culture

• Stay continuously curious, developing new design skills & techniques, that will enable the growth of internal capabilities
• Recommend ways to make our processes more efficient, effective, and economical via the design team and associated efforts
• Coach, develop and upskill direct report

Desired Traits

• Team Player – Collaborative approach with a “We” vs. “Me” mentality so that we collectively win as a team. Energizes others to achieve aligned goals.
• Self-Starter – Ability to identify needs and hold self and team accountable to address. Brings ideas and solutions to the team.
• Growth Mindset – An optimistic “yes, and” person that stays curious while seeking out and recognizing opportunities to improve the company, brand, team, and self.
• Detail-Oriented – Masterfully manage Brand and project details.
• Timeline Management – Ensure projects stay on timeline and proactively identify and communicate any potential risks
• Agility – A multi-tasker and problem solver that can lead nimbly in a fast-paced environment, prioritizing efforts that will deliver the greatest impact.

Eagle Foods will provide reasonable accommodations to allow an employee to perform the essential functions of the job.

Minimum Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design or related field required
• 7-10 years of professional graphic design and project management experience, preferably in a CPG organization
• 2-4 years of direct report management experience
• Mac/Adobe experience required - Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Premiere Pro
• Experience in, or willingness to learn, WordPress, AI platforms, Smartsheet, Social Media content development
• Experience in packaging, static, video, and animation design and production
• Understanding of regulatory requirements, such as nutrition facts, ingredient statements, claims, etc.