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Graphics Process Manager - Danone Canada

  • Canada
  • Boucherville, Toronto
  • Hybrid
  • Posted: 6 Mar 2025
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Graphics Process Manager - Danone Canada

About the job

 
This Manager role within the iPRO (Innovation and Productivity realization office, or PMO) Canada team reports to the Senior Manager of the iPRO Expert Hub. This position is part of a global team at Danone, focused on optimizing the graphics chain process for packaging across physical and digital platforms. The primary goal of the GCM is to enhance digital maturity and the packaging ecosystem through connectivity and automation, aiming to improve quality, efficiency, compliance, and time to market for Danone products.
 
 
Responsibilities:
 

1. Partner with Global Team and North American (NORAM) Team:

  • Represent Canada as a key partner, collaborating with related divisions to enhance systems, tools, and workflows in alignment with Design-to-Print (D2P) goals and KPI targets.
  • Advocate for local business needs within global and regional plans for process and workflow enhancements.
  • Participate in global and regional system testing to validate updates before launch.
  • Provide technical information and local system data support to global teams.
 
 
2. Implement and Govern Local D2P Model:
  •  Obtain local stakeholder alignment on new process changes and procedural requirements.
  •  Identify system limitations and communicate unique local business needs to the global team.
  •  Serve as a system admin "super user" and technical advisor, offering user support.
  •  Onboard, train, and manage system users while coordinating process and technical documentation efforts with global initiatives.
  •  Ensure adherence to global 1D2P principles (Danone and Premedia agency) while supporting Canadian teams with D2P procedure implementation.
  •  Act as D2P Manager within the iPRO Project governance structure to consolidate and sequence the graphics development work across brands and formats.
 
 
3. Leverage KPIs for Change Management:
  •  Utilize KPIs to identify and communicate opportunities for process and workflow enhancements.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional leadership to drive change management initiatives and achieve KPI targets.
  •  Establish clear stakeholder accountability, accurate forecasts with predictable timelines, and ensure regulatory compliance.
 
4. Technical and Process Advisor to Premedia Agency:

 

  • Monitor and regulate the premedia agency's tool usage to ensure alignment with established Standard Operating Procedure.
  • Assist in root cause analysis and implement preventative changes as necessary.
  • Provide ongoing technical support for system usage.
 
5. Manage Digital Asset Manager:
  •  Support stakeholders with local utilization of the Digital Asset Manager (DAM) system, including onboarding, training, and asset location assistance.
  •  Facilitate the migration of current brand guideline assets and additional assets from legacy systems.
 
 
6. Technical and Process Advisor to Brand Design Team:
  •  Establish new processes, standards, and training as required for graphics chain systems.
  •  Coordinate testing of new technical solutions, such as digitized guidelines, to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
 
 
7. Improve Printed Packaging Development Chain:
  •  Take responsibility for improving the entire printed packaging development chain, from ideation to delivery at the manufacturing facility.
  •  Optimize relationships and lead times for design agencies to ensure efficient collaboration.
  •  Reduce additional costs and lead times for packaging suppliers as they prepare printing technology.
  •  Drive initiatives to enhance agility in printed packaging development, ensuring a streamlined process and timely delivery.

 

 

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About you

 
 
Qualifications & Skills :
 
o Bachelor's degree in marketing, management, or other relevant fields.
o Languages: English (required), French (asset)
o Experience in building processes from the ground up and managing complex processes, preferably within a packaging or digital platform environment.
o Strong technical skills in graphics chain systems, digital asset management, and premedia tools.
o Experience working with cross-functional teams, implementation and governance of processes, leveraging KPIs for change management, and providing technical support.
o Excellent communication, problem-solving, and leadership skills; ability to adapt to new processes and drive efficiency and effectiveness.

 

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About Danone

 

Are you ready to join our incredible team?

 

  • You will work for a certified B Corp company that has been named one of Canada's top 100 Employers for five consecutive years. In other words, you will be immersed in a culture that is rich and engaging, inclusive and human-centric, efficient and eco-responsible.

 

  • You will benefit from our benefits package including collective insurance with a core health plan 100% paid and no waiting period. We also provide flexible credits for a wellness account, a health spending account or an RRSP. Additionally, we offer a competitive group retirement savings plan in which Danone will match your contributions. Our exceptional parental leave policy supports both primary and secondary caregivers. Our employee assistance program and telemedicine service are also available to ensure your well-being.

 

  • You will enjoy our flexible and hybrid guidelines that let you design a work model and schedule that best suits your needs. Our innovative and flexible vacation policy allows you to take as much paid time off as you need. We also offer, among other things, a summer schedule and no-meeting Friday afternoons. Our onsite workplace features include new, dynamic and collaborative working spaces where it is good to work as a team.

 

  • You will have access to various training initiatives, both in-house and online because we value and prioritize your growth and development. We also offer mentoring, leadership development programs and tuition reimbursement to support your career advancement.

 

  • You will have the opportunity to make a difference in the community as we are a founding partner of the Breakfast Club of Canada. For 25 years, we have worked with the organization to provide children with  regular access to a nutritious breakfast in a comfortable environment, helping them reach their full potential.

 

What are you waiting for? Join our team and enjoy these exceptional benefits!

 

 

Danone Canada is a business unit of Danone and operates from headquarter offices in Boucherville, Quebec, and Toronto, Ontario. Danone Canada is the country’s largest consumer-facing B Corporation, demonstrating that the company meets the highest standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency. From year to year, Danone is recognized as one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers for its forward-thinking work environment and was awarded the Parity Certification Women in Governance for our commitment towards gender equality in the workplace. We have 500+ employees across Canada that are engaged and energized to deliver Danone’s mission: Bringing health through to food to as many people as possible, by working on strong brands such as Activia, Oikos, Danone, Silk, International Delight and many others. Come join our movement for a healthier world: One Planet. One Health BY YOU.

 

Danone Canada doesn’t just welcome what makes you unique, we value it. We’re proud to provide equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to cultural background, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression or age. Faithful to our values of openness and humanism, all our employees share the commitment to engage one another with dignity and respect.

 

Danone Inc. is committed to complying with its obligations under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act and the Ontario Human Rights Code.  Danone Inc. will make reasonable efforts to provide accommodation throughout its recruitment process, to the point of undue hardship, and will work with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of this process.  Questions concerning the availability of accommodation in the recruitment process may be forwarded to INFORMATION@danone.com.

 

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