Director, Brand Design Hill's

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Job Number #171195 - Overland Park, Kansas, United States

Colgate-Palmolive Company is a global consumer products company operating in over 200 countries specializing in Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care, Skin Care, and Pet Nutrition. Our products are trusted in more households than any other brand in the world, making us a household name!

Join Colgate-Palmolive, a caring, innovative growth company reimagining a healthier future for people, their pets, and our planet. Guided by our core values—Caring, Inclusive, and Courageous—we foster a culture that inspires our people to achieve common goals. Together, let's build a brighter, healthier future for all.

As an innovative and strategic design leader, you possess extensive experience in the discovery, development, and delivery of both online and offline brand experiences. You excel in navigating complex internal and external challenges and can effectively collaborate within a global enterprise. Your role requires you to define and lead pioneering design and brand initiatives, with a strong focus on innovation and experiential design, that surpass business objectives across 2D and 3D packaging, digital platforms, retail environments, and e-commerce, setting new industry benchmarks for pet nutrition brands.

• Design & Experience Leadership:
  Lead the Hill’s design team in delivering excellence in strategic brand-design experiences, focusing on packaging design systems, execution, and sustained activation for Global and Divisional brands.
• Strategic Innovation & Future Vision:
  Drive the entire design process from blue-sky innovation to delivery, ensuring that high-level disruptive creative concepts are successfully translated into final, market-ready assets and scalable future platforms, while actively scouting and integrating emerging design trends and technologies to fuel brand growth.
• End-to-End Execution:
  Ensure that high-level creative concepts are successfully translated into final, market-ready assets, covering the full design lifecycle from concepting to production and delivery.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration & Design Thinking:
  Partner closely with the Hill’s global brand marketing team to align design strategy with overall brand guidelines while adapting to local market needs, championing Design Thinking methodologies to solve complex business challenges.
• Team Development & Creative Culture:
  Mentor and grow the design team through hiring, training, and performance management, fostering a culture of fearless experimentation, rapid prototyping, and continuous design evolution.
• Agency Partnership & Design Excellence:
  Drive design excellence standards with internal and external agency partners, spanning packaging, brand experience, and activation, challenging partners to co-create groundbreaking brand expressions and user-centric solutions.

• Education:
  
  Bachelor’s Degree in Design or a related creative field.
• Experience:
  
  15+ years of professional design experience, primarily within the Consumer Product Goods (CPG) sector on Global brands, with a demonstrable portfolio showcasing design-led innovation and measurable business impact.
• Technical Expertise & System Thinking:
  Proven "hands-on" packaging design skills with a deep understanding of great brand design systems, including brand equity, architecture, visual assets, and governance, with experience in implementing next-generation design tools and sustainable/smart packaging solutions.
• Process Mastery & Agile Delivery:
  Demonstrated ability to manage the full design lifecycle, moving seamlessly from initial innovation, rapid prototyping, and concepting to final production and delivery, leveraging Agile design principles.
• Omni-Channel Fluency & Digital Disruption:
  Strong experience in Omni-channel environments, including a solid background in digital design, with proven expertise in designing for emerging platforms (e.g., AR/VR, personalized digital experiences).

• Strategic Influence & Vision Casting:
  Proven ability to articulate and champion a design perspective that strategically…