THE GORILLA WAY

At Gorilla, our mission is to build brands people love with products we believe in alongside people we care about! 

We believe in four pillars that are the driving force behind everything that we do which are Brands, Customer, Community and our People.  We believe in our unique company culture and investing in the people who work here by caring about the totality of their lives which is why our core values are so important to us! 

Summary Description:

The Artwork/Packaging Project Coordinator manages multiple projects within a fast-paced organization, across a multi-functional team. This individual is responsible for the coordination of all primary and secondary packaging as well as additional art pieces for both the Gorilla Glue and O’Keeffe’s brands.

Core Competencies:

• Leadership: Can rally organization behind a vision for the brand.  Can connect the brand’s vision with its action plans to bring the vision to life.  Can break down barriers to bringing the plans to life with excellence.
• Collaborates: Can collaborate across levels and departments to bring vision to life.
• Grows Capability: Can develop marketing mastery in the brand teams – a track record of coaching and training individuals into strong brand marketers.
• Strategic: Can distill brand priorities into simple frameworks that drive behavior for a broad set of brand stakeholders including Marketing, Sales, and R&D.
• Analytical/Integrates Knowledge: Can connect data points from diverse sets of information to form a clear story that drives actionable insights to move the brands forward.
• Uses Judgement: Can use data but also can leverage judgement and intuition based on experience to make timely and informed decisions.

Duties:

• Manage brand artwork and packaging changes including management of all timelines and delivery schedules.
• Manages design team capacity in Monday.com to ensure projects are assigned and completed on time and to the highest quality standards.
• Assist in the implementation of special merchandising display configurations to meet brand and sales team selling objectives.
• Responsible for management and training of internal proofing and tracking system, PageProof.
• Serve as the liaison between cross-functional teams to ensure timely and error-free artwork proofing and submission.
• Manage retail display specifications and retail-specific approval process.
• Responsible for the packaging and artwork translation process with third party vendors.
• Responsible for marketing approval of new packaging and retail displays.  
• Maintain product and marketing copy documents for all products.  
• Assist with other cross-functional procurement/art approval projects as needed.
• Assist with other brand marketing work as needed.

Qualifications:

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree (BA or BS) Required
• 2-3 years of project management experience required

Skills:

• Outstanding organizational and project management skills.
• Should be confident and outgoing, able to work well under pressure and succeed within a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to multi-task and be deadline driven.
• Strong interpersonal skills, ability to work well within a multi-functional team.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Familiarity with production printers, printing process is a plus.

Physical Demands:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stoop, reach, bend, stand, walk, lift, pull, push, grasp, talk, hear, see, and lift up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision such as reading handwritten and or typed material and must have the ability to focus.

Company Values:

Must adhere to The Gorilla Glue Company’s Core Values that ensure everyone works together to exceed expectations.

• Have fun, be passionate and show it!
• Act with integrity and respect in all relationships.
• Communicate openly and appreciate the effort of others.
• Embrace knowledge, growth and change.
• Strive for excellence in what we do every day!