Eagle Family Foods, Inc. Buffalo Grove , IL 60089
Posted 3 weeks ago
Overview
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.
Responsibilities
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
Qualifications
Desired Traits
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
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.
Eagle Family Foods, Inc.