(Senior) Consultant on Artwork / Packaging Process (m/f/d) – permanent / full-time
Who we are.
ROOTS Brand Strategy Consultants GmbH is an international brand & marketing strategy consultancy, based in Düsseldorf, Germany. We help renowned clients across a broad spectrum of industries to create or sharpen their brand & marketing strategy and manage their brands in the most effective & efficient ways.
We are an agile consulting boutique and shaped by many years of own practical experience in local and global marketing leadership roles of international corporations. Hence our consultants truly understand the needs and challenges of marketers across different roles, levels, and industries.
Our consulting approach is pragmatic and application-oriented, and we often also support our clients in implementing the solutions we develop with them.
What we do.
With our 6P-model we sharpen the view for connections and support brand management and marketing in practice – from a clear brand purpose to consistent performance orientation:
#planning / marketing & growth strategy
#purpose / brand positioning
#presence / customer experience
#people / marketing capability
#productivity / marketing tech & operations
#performance / data & insights
Who we are looking for.
We are looking for a (Senior) Consultant with dedicated focus on artwork (packaging) process optimization. The consultant has expertise in the graphic chain process and will independently lead projects from beginning to end: starting with proper understanding of the client’s business issues & goals, followed by developing strategic recommendations that are impactful and measurable. Finally, you guide project execution and drive & track the actual impact of the initiatives.
We are therefore looking for a mature, independent person who has a broad experience, not necessarily in consulting, but in Artwork management projects. What’s important to us:
- Functional expertise – you bring 5+ years of experience in working with/for great companies on artwork management. Ideally you have analyzed and optimized the artwork process already, at least you know all relevant steps from artwork briefing over prepress until print file transfer.
- Excellent communication skills – you feel like a fish in the water when running a presentation in front of a group of 20 people in the room and can’t wait for the next one and you rarely experience an awkward silence when having a business lunch with someone you don’t know well.
- Well-structured thinking – you can easily navigate in big amounts of information and make some hypothesis from what you read, you are able to put your ideas into a convincing story flow, starting from – a sometimes visionary – big picture, guiding through details in an understandable way.
- Project management – you know all the principles of how a timely project is managed, how to plan efficiently your work and other project team members. A plus would be, if you are familiar with Jira/Asana or other tools as well as knowing the basics of scrum.
- Healthy perfectionism – you will not send a presentation with spelling mistakes or simply when you feel it’s not yet good enough. You know that quality is a differentiator.
- Languages – you are truly fluent in English and German, both verbally and in writing, be it in informal settings or when it comes to articulating strategic recommendations.
What you will do.
As mentioned above, this position offers fully independent client & project leadership, including:
- Understanding client challenges and developing the best fitting approach on artwork process optimization projects
- Developing best-in-class processes and problem solutions for our customers by reducing manual processes, simplifying approval cycles and increasing overall efficiency
- Collaborating with all internal stakeholders and 3rd parties like artwork agencies and workflow software suppliers
- Developing implementation plans including business case / budget calculation
- Developing and running capability programs & trainings
- Contributing to constantly enhancing & upgrading the ROOTS solutions portfolio
- Running client acquisition programs, developing offers (scope & commercial)
- Representing ROOTS externally (conferences, speaking)
- Supporting to grow, educate & inspire the ROOTS team
What we offer.
- An exciting, permanent, full-time role
- Working with top-class global clients and high caliber colleagues
- Responsibility right from the start and quick decision-making in small, agile teams
- Modern office in Düsseldorf, with high share of remote work as an option
Interested? We’d be looking forward to receiving your application to hello@roots-consultants.com.