Specialist Product Packaging Design

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Title:   Specialist Product Packaging Design
Location:   MI - Fremont - NUSA
Duration: 3 months

Description:

• Contributes to Ideation and Design activities in relation with FEI projects, Accelerator projects, and Ideation initiatives at the identify stage of the innovation process in close collaboration with Business and project teams.
• Translate consumer insights into opportunity areas to generate ideas and leverage design knowledge, skills, and experience to inspire and develop product and package solutions in line with business strategy and needs.
• Continuously seek to improve methods and tools to drive innovation performance.

Job Responsibilities:

• Drive and accelerate the front-end stage of the innovation process, leveraging commercial and technical knowledge across the organization to develop winning consumer concepts for products, packaging & services with commercial validity Plan, execute and facilitate strategic and ideation workshops, identifying the most appropriate approach and tools to deliver the defined success criteria
• Support teams in break-through innovation through trend identification, understanding of consumer motivations, creative facilitation, visualization, digital communication, and rapid prototyping.
• Actively seek new trends, consumer insights and technologies both internally and externally and develop into consumer facing solutions in line with business strategy and needs
• Partner with consumer insight team to identify, size & prioritize opportunity areas
• Propose, plan and deliver design activities from early conceptualization via sketching, virtual modeling, animations, physical modeling and graphic design – hands-on and iterative approach to solution development from designs to early prototyping   
• Support teams in early concept evaluation for consumer desirability and technical feasibility 
• Connect, exchange, and build innovation best practices with internal & external networks
• Provides coaching to project teams on the innovation process for activities related to the problem identification and solution development phase, such as innovation sprints, ideation sessions, brainstorming techniques, …
• Hands on approach to support project teams to solution development 
• Actively participate in internal design network to promote cross-fertilization between different client sites (R&D, Org. Units).
• Propose new ideas/activities/methods and integrate design knowledge and practice to initiate and support innovation activity.
• Coach and guide Packaging & Design Technician or external agencies in prototyping and design, if and when relevant

Job Qualifications (Education, Experience and Knowledge):       

• B.S. degree in Industrial design or related field preferred, preferably from a NASAD accredited design institute
• Minimum 3 years of experience in industrial design and product development or related experience
• Strong sketching, virtual modeling, animations, physical modeling and graphic design skills, including 2D and 3D computer software skills
• Demonstrated ability to understand consumer needs, identify new opportunities and translate these needs and opportunities into new consumer products, packages and processes
• Professional oral, written, and interpersonal communication and presentation skills with ability to effectively interact with all levels and functions across the organization
• Experience guiding product and packaging prototyping
• Ability to lead teams without direct line management
• Strong project management skills
• Strong facilitation skills 
• Strong ability to prioritize, multitask and manage various day-to-day activities, working to a timeline as well as being able to work on large-scale projects and accommodating fast-track requests
• Ability to utilize model shop tooling and machines
• Strong creative problem-solving skills
• Excels in a collaborative team environment, with the ability to lead and facilitate cross-functional teams

About us:
At our organization, we take our mission and values to heart! We are on a mission to offer more and better jobs all over the world! Our goal is to care for you while you care for our clients and get you paid the highest pay possible. All our associates working with us are expected to embrace our RACE values: R - Results Matter, A- Approachable, C - Care, and E - Emergency i.e. work with a sense of urgency.

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