SGS&Co is looking for a Project Manager to work closely with the Account Manager and be the first point of contact for the Client’s Marketing teams in the coordination of packaging development projects.

Onsite Packaging Project manager
Location: 08029 Barcelona, at client premises
Work arrangement: hybrid- 3 days WFO/ 2 days WFH
Contract type: Full time- Permanent


Your mission:
• Ensure the daily coordination of the production: manage workflows, summarize the information received from the customer, follow up on the quality of the production, and ensure deadlines are met.
• Point of contact for technical aspects: participation in technical meetings (launch of the range, contact with the printers, etc.), press passing, technical point of contact for proof management.
• Business development and optimization of the quality of our services.
• Administrative coordination for invoicing.

You will be accountable for:
> detecting anomalies within the files and alerting the team,
> coordinating the artwork production between our team and clients,
> ensuring the deadlines are met,
> providing the client and production team with clear visibility on the timing and the global roadmap
> responsible for the development and execution of packaging ranges,
> ensuring compliance with the company's internal process as well as the client's process
> driving continuous improvement pipeline for artwork process and ensure alignment with global artwork process
> maintaining and developing SGS&co’s relationship with the Client.

Requirements :
• Possess very good technical skills, excellent knowledge of the graphic chain and packaging (artwork and reprography/prepress), printing processes (offset, flexo, rotogravure), proofing and colour management.
• Fluent in English and conversational Spanish
• Knowledge of Indesign, Illustrator and Photoshop preferred
• At least 2 years of experience in a similar position
• You like working on a team and have good interpersonal skills.
• You are organized, rigorous and proactive.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Pack

Our Company :
SGS & Co is a global brand impact group delivering speed and quality through innovation and insights to drive impact for our world-class clients. We combine deep expertise in design, graphic services, production, technology, and process optimization with unmatched marketplace understanding, dynamic ideas, and client-first customer service. We bring the world’s best brands to life and set them up for success in the modern world.
SGS & Co shifts brands to impact through the strength of our people. Our team of nearly 5,000 employees across 30+ countries works collaboratively to exceed client expectations today and anticipates how we’ll need to pivot together to win tomorrow. We take pride in our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion along with our ambition to lead the industry to a more sustainable future to drive a positive impact on our clients, our people, and our planet.

Marks is a global brand design and experience agency, uniquely constructed to enable brands to win in an age of constant change. We enable our household name clients to get there first and best - empowering acceleration on a global scale. From vision-building to detailed execution, we enable brands to move faster and shift impact.

We are currently seeking a Senior Designer to join our talented team based in either London or Birmingham. You will play a key role in a team that translates brand needs into distinctive visual outcomes - designing, crafting and implementing the brand experience across all touch points, through intelligently applied insight, compelling concepts, confident creativity and consistent activation.

You will know how to autonomously challenge a brief and produce exceptional work, maintaining the brand experience across concepts and channels, and guide others against the brief, leading Middleweight and Junior team members; ensuring our creative thinking goes deeper, our execution become more powerfully consistent, and presenting with clear rationale to clients.

This role represents an outstanding opportunity to join a talented team in an agency that is growing, and enjoy a first class culture where you will have the opportunity to work with globally recognised clients, whilst also having the opportunity to develop your career within a global, market leading agency.

What you'll do

• Act as a deputy for the Design Directors, guiding others to strengthen their work, deepen their creativity, challenge the brief more thoroughly, approving in their absence
• Consult with Client Service to understand the client need, adding insight and richness to the design brief. Advise on resource and timings when needed
• Be a team player
• Actively help others stay on track, being a support for their creativity, managing expectations and risk when things change
• Produce creative that challenges and moves beyond the brief, is embedded in the insight and is activated with powerful consistency
• Present with confidence and clarity and objectivity, enabling debate, taking on board the views of others and positively giving feedback to drive improvement
• Champion and following our file set up, file naming and server filing procedures.

What you'll have

• 4-8 years experience within a Shopper/Integrated Design agency in Design roles
• Emerging client presentation skills, discussing, defending design
• Stakeholder management and influencing
• A degree in Graphic Design, Product Design, Illustration or related field
• Understanding of strategic, creative and commercial aspect of brands and the world they inhabit
• Coaching and mentoring skills
• Deep understanding of print production, materials and finishes
• Adobe CC, Office but also understand the power of a sketch

What we offer

You will enjoy an excellent base salary, along with the other benefits of working for Marks including:

• 25 days annual leave
• Pension
• Healthcare scheme
• Life Assurance

This role can be based in Birmingham or London

SGS & Co est un groupe mondial d’impact pour les marques, combinant une expertise approfondie dans la conception, les services graphiques, la production, la technologie et l’optimisation des processus avec une compréhension inégalée du marché, des idées dynamiques et un service client axé sur le client.

Notre équipe de près de 5 000 employés répartis dans plus de 30 pays travaille en collaboration pour dépasser les attentes des clients aujourd’hui et anticiper comment nous devrons évoluer ensemble pour gagner demain. Nous travaillons avec les plus grandes marques de divers secteurs tels que L’Oréal, LVMH, Pierre Fabre, Danone et Biogaran – en les aidant à donner vie à leur vision de marque.


Les missions:

· Gérer tous les documents « test d’encombrements », de la prise de brief marketing à l’envoi final du PDF technique à SGS&CO
· Créer les déclinaisons créatives de format à partir d’un format référent.
· Suivi des timings des documents : décor avec textes définitifs et éléments techniques non définitifs.
· Travail et brief en direct avec les chefs de produits et les assistantes sur les documents de décors,
· Support des chefs de produits avec fichiers des agences de créa, maquettes, PLV et packaging ainsi que travaux ponctuels liés aux réunions
· Vous serez amené à gérer de l’exécution pure mais également de la déclinaison créative
· Création de maquettes (tubes, cartons, étiquettes)

À propos de vous :

· Créa/EXE (5+ ans d’expérience), sensible à la cosmétique
· Connaissance des éléments techniques autour du packaging : surface décorable, techniques d’impressions, technique d’exécution et d’édition.
· Maitrise de Photoshop, notamment pour faire des visuels en 3D/2D et du Photomontage.
· Parfaite maitrise d’Illustrator et Indesign notamment pour faire de l’Exécution.
· Motion Design serait un plus (retouches video sur adobe premiere pro / after effects par ex)

En retour, nous vous offrirons:

Type de contrat: CDI / Hybride
Chèque-repas (ticket restaurant) : valeur 9,20 Euros par jour (50%)
Abonnement de transport - l'abonnement est remboursé (50%)
Congé annuel : 25 jours.
Réduction du temps de travail (RTT) : 12 jours au total - le cas échéant.
Congé exceptionnel - par exemple mariage - 4 jours.
Assurance maladie privée (La Complémentaire Santé and La prévoyance)

Senior Account Manager (Amsterdam Studio)

About us
We are a global brand experience agency with multiple locations — across continents, time zones and geography. Coming together, we deliver both global vision and local intelligence.
In Europe we have studios across London, Birmingham, Amsterdam and Paris.
We are uniquely constructed to enable brands to win in an age of constant change. Our focus is on using design to amplify brands in the most effective and efficient ways possible and deliver it
globally.

Our Culture
Enthusiastic about creativity and design, Marks is a genuinely friendly, fun and engaging place to work. Whilst we all have very serious work to do, we are emphatic that our employees should have the most rewarding experience at work we can possibly give them in a business environment.
We believe nurturing diverse talent and bringing together a team of creative and business minded people with perspectives from all over the world to create a vibrant environment full of ideas, opinions, and experiences.

About the Role
Our Amsterdam Studio is growing rapidly. We are looking for a Senior Account Manager who is comfortable with a high degree of project ownership, has a great attention to detail and thrives in a fast-paced environment. They are the go-to for what good looks like in client service, across project and financial management. There is no “I” in this team and we work hard together to deliver small and big projects across both global and local brands and we like to have fun doing it!
Client Services are the voice of the client within Marks and help ensure that projects run smoothly in the studio. They help our clients to shine by identifying and shaping the clients’ business, brand and personal needs into actionable briefs, ensuring we deliver against them on time, on budget and with excellence.
Our ideal candidate comes from a world of branding and has a background working on FMCG brands of all levels with a deep understanding of how they operate.

What you will do:
• Structure and lead productive client conversations
• Know the projects and briefs inside out – the deliverables, budgets, timings & resources
• Build your brand, design and business knowledge to add value to client briefs,presentations and workshops
• Have ownership of projects and manage:
.Our work: project plans and timely delivery, cost proposals, contact and status reports, project trackers
. Our finances: accuracy of the sales tracker, invoicing completed work, tracking accruals, delivering month-end figures, chasing payment
• Partner with Design and Resource Management to ensure we effectively manage resource
• Write clear briefs, create budgets/quotes/invoices and excel at buttoned-down project management.

What you will need:
• A solid understanding of brand management, life-cycle and strategic design process
• Ability to manage difficult conversations, keeping people focused on resolutions
• Present with confidence
• Excellent project management skills to run multiple creative projects in a fast-paced studio environment
• Ability to prioritize, stay calm and flag challenges before they become issues
• Great listening skills
• Ninja level MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) and Keynote

What you will benefit from:
• 4-6 years experience within a Brand or Design/Packaging agency, in Client Service roles
• Emerging coaching and mentoring skills
• Commercial acumen
• A degree or equivalent, in Marketing, Advertising, Design or related field

Who you are:
• A natural organizer and project manager with a positive attitude, who works in a friendly, relaxed, pragmatic and focused way.
• You love Design and Branding and are the go to for daily client needs on projects and work closely with the designers.
• You have a passion for visual culture, creativity, innovation and tech, beyond the world of graphic design.
• Empathic and a good listener. You really have the ability to put yourself in other people’s
shoes.

Marks are a brand design and experience agency, uniquely constructed to enable brands to win in an age of constant change. We are one agency operating globally across 12 countries, and are part of SGS&Co, a global brand impact group. We enable our clients to get there first - empowering acceleration on a global scale. From vision building to detailed execution, we enable brands to move faster, and to shift impact.

We are currently seeking a Senior Account Manager to join the team here at Marks in Southwark, London. This is a hybrid role which will see your time split between the office and home.

The ideal candidate will be someone who can think independently, understands the creative process, and is comfortable with client facing conversations in order to write proposals, estimates, timelines and support the Account Director with the creation and presentation of strategic and creative work. Day-to-day, you will work closely with the client to understand creative briefs, costings and timelines, and support the management of projects through to completion.

The ideal candidate will already be working in an Account Management role within either a marketing or digital design agency, e-commerce or packaging. However, we will consider candidates outside of these domains if they exhibit the level of drive and competence required to be successful in this role.

This is an outstanding opportunity for an Account Manager with around 1-2 years of experience to take their next career step in a dynamic, creative agency, with the security of working for a large, global organisation, but that retains the spirit of a small team environment. You will enjoy an excellent base salary, along with the other benefits of working for Marks including:

25 days annual leave
Pension
Healthcare scheme
Life Assurance

Marks is a global brand design and experience agency, uniquely constructed to enable brands to win in an age of constant change. Marks is a part of SGS & Co, a brand impact group that enables it's household name clients to get there first - empowering acceleration on a global scale. From vision-building to detailed execution, we enable brands to move faster and shift impact.

We are currently seeking a Middleweight Designer, ideally with experience gained within the packaging sphere, to join our talented team based in London. In this role, you will translate brand needs into distinctive visual outcomes - designing, crafting and implementing the brand experience across all touch points, through intelligently applied insight, compelling concepts, confident creativity and consistent activation.

As a valuable player in the design team, you will have opportunity to build your expertise across brand design, typography, illustration, photography, finishes and print processes.

This is an outstanding opportunity for a Designer with around 2 years minimum experience in a similar role within branding, design, comms or media. The successful candidate with have opportunity to work alongside a talented team in an expanding agency with a great working culture. You will also have opportunity to develop your portfolio with household name global brands.


What you'll do:

Working with Design Directorate and Senior Designers to understand the brief, brand guidelines, technical constraints for the project and aiding them guide junior team members.
Challenging the brief, delivering the expected and the unexpected in your response
Effectively managing your time, collaborating with Resource Managers
Being a team player. Keeping the channels of communication open between Design, Client Service, Strategy and Operations teams, seeking guidance when things change
Adding value to internal design reviews, offering fresh perspective, giving feedback to executional consistency, art direction of photography.
Championing and following our file set up, file naming and server filing procedures.
Pro-actively assisting the team, contributing to studio inspiration and design events.


What you'll have:

2-5 years experience within a branding, packaging, and corporate identity role
Understanding of strategic, creative and commercial aspect of brands and the world they inhabit
Emerging coaching and mentoring skills
A degree in Graphic Design, Product Design, Illustration or related field
Ability to confidently and clearly articulate your thinking
Know when a sketch is more persuasive than a mac visual
Ability to multi-tasking and excellent time management skills
Excellence in Adobe CC, (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign), Keynote
If you have knowledge of designing for e-commerce, and/or animation in After effects, that would be highly advantageous.


What we offer:

You will enjoy an excellent base salary, along with the other benefits of working for Marks including:

25 days annual leave
Pension
Healthcare scheme
Life Assurance


Location

London (UK) - Hybrid working

SGS & Co is a global brand impact group delivering speed and quality through innovation and insights, to drive impact for our world class clients. We combine deep expertise in design, graphic services, production, technology, and process optimisation with unmatched marketplace understanding, dynamic ideas, and client first customer service. We bring the world’s best brands to life and set them up for success in a modern world.

We are currently seeking a Compensation Analyst to join our team on a 12 month FTC. We are happy for the successful candidate to work remotely, therefore this role could be based anywhere in the UK.

In this role, you will be responsible for analysing and administering employer compensation programs, including base pay, long & short-term incentives, bonuses etc. to ensure the company is competitive in the areas of salaries and other total rewards programs.

This is an exciting opportunity for a technically string Compensation specialist to take full ownership of all aspects of Compensation and Reward across a global business, employing c5000 people worldwide.


In this role you will:

• Benchmark jobs against survey data and other market intelligence to determine competitive compensation ranges for each position.
• Gather data from market-based compensation surveys; using spreadsheets and data analysis techniques to assess results and market trends.
• Complete submission processes for compensation surveys.
• Manage the merit process for the global organization by creating a process that will allow leaders to manage their allotted merit in a way that is consistent with our salary guidelines and performance programs.
• Manage the global short-term incentive program to include monthly accrual calculations and audits to ensure accuracy of the participant list.
• Manage the global compensation framework to ensure consistency of roles across the globe and support the global total rewards team members as needed.
• Collect data about company's Compensation & Benefits policies and analyze them to prepare reports and advise management team on key findings.
• Perform audits on the program and identify business process improvement opportunities for the HR department to include compensation, benefits and key HR functions.
• Create ad hoc analysis as requested and support the team as needed.


You will have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources or related field
• Experience gained within a specialist Compensation role, ideally within a large, global business
• Experience with Excel, Power BI, Tableau, or other major business analytics/intelligence tools
• A professional, detail-orientated mindset, with an emphasis on confidentiality
• A positive attitude to work, and the ability to maintain positive working relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.


We offer:

You will enjoy an excellent base salary, along with the other benefits of working for SGS&Co including:

• 25 days annual leave
• Pension
• Healthcare scheme
• Life Assurance

SGS & Co is a global brand impact group delivering speed and quality through innovation and insights, to drive impact for our world class clients. We combine deep expertise in design, graphic services, production, technology, and process optimisation with unmatched marketplace understanding, dynamic ideas, and client first customer service. We bring the world’s best brands to life and set them up for success in a modern world.

We are currently seeking an Employee Engagement Manager to join our team. We are happy for the successful candidate to work remotely, therefore this role could be based anywhere in the UK.

In this role, you will partner with both the wider business and also HR leadership, to drive global Employee Engagement initiatives company-wide. In doing so, you will also support leadership development, talent management, rewards, recognition and more.

This role represents an exciting opportunity for an Employee Engagement specialist to take the lead on all aspects of EE across a global business of c5000 employees.


In this role you will:
• Develop a strong, long-term overall employee experience strategy and plan for the global organization across multiple areas including overall engagement, culture, talent management and rewards and recognition.
• Assess, advise-on and manage the implementation and usage of current and future software and tools, including the potential development of proprietary or integrated solutions in support of our employee experience needs.
• Deploy global employee surveys to attain regular organizational health assessments and work closely with HR leadership to identify, develop, and implement action plans to address key global themes.
• Create a plan for and manage the execution of a culture needs assessment and any resulting action items.
• Research options for rewards and recognition programs including any supporting software and systems.
• Support a metrics-driven approach to our employee experience initiatives though the identification of key indicators of success and engagement across the organization.
• Work closely with Diversity Equity and Inclusion Manager to ensure that all policies, practices, and procedures are in line with the organizations DEI&B objectives.
• Influence leaders across the organization to adopt and promote the talent management framework and practices, ensuring that the annual process yields output that drives highly effective succession plans to be reviewed by the highest organizational levels.
• Create robust talent assessment approaches that can be used by organizational leaders for effective hiring, succession, and career planning at scale across the enterprise.
• Support and contribute to the strategy and optimize New Hire Orientation/On-boarding for the global enterprise in conjunction with our Talent Acquisition COE.
• Develop strategies and programs to continuously drive brand, culture, build leadership capability and employee engagement.
• Reevaluate and enhance past performance development processes and tools and advise organization on new global strategy for effective performance management.


You will have:
• Undergraduate degree in Human Resources, Organizational Psychology or similar required
• At least 4 years’ direct experience managing employee experience in a corporate HR setting.
• Must have experience with talent management including but not limited to 9-box tools, talent calibrations and distributions, succession planning and training and development.
• Demonstrated impact and experience navigating challenging social topics within a corporate setting.
• A proactive, autonomous, but collaborative working style.
• Ability to work with confidential and sensitive materials, whilst establishing trust in others.
• A positive attitude, and the ability to form and maintain good working relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.
• A high level of urgency, service-focus and follow through.
• Ability to communicate at the individual and group level, with employees at all levels (including C-Suite).


We offer:

You will enjoy an excellent base salary, along with the other benefits of working for SGS&co including:

• 25 days annual leave
• Pension
• Healthcare scheme
• Life Assurance

SGS & Co is a global brand impact group delivering speed and quality through innovation and insights, to drive impact for our world class clients. We combine deep expertise in design, graphic services, production, technology, and process optimisation with unmatched marketplace understanding, dynamic ideas, and client first customer service. We bring the world’s best brands to life and set them up for success in a modern world.

We are currently seeking an Employee Engagement Specialist to join our team. We are happy for the successful candidate to work remotely, therefore this role could be based anywhere in the UK.

In this role you will provide administrative and specialist support to the Employee Experience Centre of Excellence, which includes Talent Management, Employee Engagement, Diversity Equity and Inclusion and Learning and Development.

This role represents an exciting opportunity for an Employee Engagement specialist, or indeed a HR Generalist with experience gained within the Employee Engagement space, to support all aspects of EE across a global business of c5000 employees.


In this role you will:
• Provide project and administrative assistance with all initiatives and programs including but not limited to:
o Talent Management Programs and Assessments
o Research and Analytics for DEI and Training & Development
o Global Training and Development programs and frameworks
o Global Culture Needs Assessments
o Global Employee Engagement Surveys
o Global Performance Review Processes
• Complete regular content updates and basic copy creation on intranet site, formal website and internal communications and social media accounts. Maintain current systems and tools as needed.
• Act as key project manager for all cross-functional initiatives within the employee experience pillar. Track and update status of initiatives across the group. In conjunction with the Manager, Employee Experience, manage all research needs, presentation development and distribution, and overall execution of programs within the COE
• Moderate group calls and other tracking where needed. Track and update participation in all employee experience company programs.
• Follow and update team on social media trends and updates in the employee experience space (including Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) and advise on the creation of potential campaigns for SGS & Co.


You will have:
• Undergraduate degree in Human Resources, Organizational Psychology or similar required
• At least 2 years’ direct experience managing employee experience in a corporate HR setting.
• Demonstrated impact and experience navigating challenging social topics within a corporate setting.
• A proactive, autonomous, but collaborative working style.
• Ability to work with confidential and sensitive materials, and maintain trust and safety for others.
• A positive attitude, and the ability to form and maintain good working relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.
• A high level of urgency, service-focus and follow through.
• Ability to communicate at the individual and group level, with employees at all levels (including C-Suite).


We offer:

You will enjoy an excellent base salary, along with the other benefits of working for SGS&co including:

• 25 days annual leave
• Pension
• Healthcare scheme
• Life Assurance

SGS&CO has an immediate opening for a HR Specialist based in Paris

The role:
The HR Specialist is based in Paris, your main responsibility will be to offer advice to key stakeholders of the business on matters such as personnel administration, employee relations, absences, performance reviews, disciplinaries and grievances.
Overall, the HR Specialist is responsible for a variety of HR tasks, ensuring all policies are consistent and that all HR queries are dealt with promptly and reliably. Ensuring that high standards are adopted and met through all aspects of HR within the business is key.
HR Specialist will encompass the full scope of Human Resources activity within their area of the business.

Key Responsibilities:
• You will act as the point of contact for hiring managers, employees and other HR team members regarding HR general enquiries
• Monitoring, review and update all HR policies and ensuring these are in line with the current legislation
• Informing employees of their rights and entitlements and keeping them up to date on any changes that are made
• Managing employee relationships, responding to any queries or problems that they have and managing their expectations
• Handling HR matters reliably and in accordance with legal requirements
• Supporting the HR Business Partners with various capability investigations, including grievance and disciplinary
• Assist the business with the PDR process
• Follow internal processes to ensure documentation of work and clear audit trails
• Actively support and identify measures and processes to reduce business costs, whilst maintaining corporate and local policies and practices.
• Help develop, implement and measure employee and process improvements across the sites of responsibility and group business
• Encourage employee engagement
• Identify training needs and partner with the learning organization to successfully execute programs. Follow up to ensure training objectives are met.
• Partner with managers to ensure a smooth onboarding process for new employees.
• Work closely with the Payroll team
• Work on a variety of HR projects

Skills and abilities:
• Bachelor’s degree or MBA in HR, Business Administration, or related field and a minimum of 2 years of experience as HR Specialist role, ideally within a global organization and multicultural environment.
• Organisational and administrative skills
• Experience in an HR environment
• Advising and working with senior members of staff
• IT programs and HR systems
• Personable with strong communication and relationship building capabilities across all levels of the business
• Driven and determined
• Positive attitude
• Quick learner
• Strong communication skills
• High attention to detail
• Ability to work with confidential information
• Practical and logical; able to solve problems quickly
• Legal knowledge on French labor law
• Fluency in French and English are required.
• Eligibility to work in the EU required.

Type of contract: Permanent
Work arrangement: Hybrid
Start date: As soon as possible
Location: Paris

https://www.sgsco.com/
SGS & Co is a global brand impact group delivering speed and quality through innovation and insights to drive impact for our world-class clients. We combine deep expertise in design, graphic services, production, technology, and process optimization with unmatched marketplace understanding, dynamic ideas, and client-first customer service. We bring the world’s best brands to life and set them up for success in the modern world.

SGS & Co shifts brands to impact through the strength of our people. Our team of nearly 5,000 employees across 30+ countries works collaboratively to exceed client expectations today and anticipates how we’ll need to pivot together to win tomorrow. We take pride in our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion along with our ambition to lead the industry to a more sustainable future to drive positive impact for our clients, our people, and our planet.
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Are you interested in Quality Assurance and in contributing to provide World Class service to our clients?

Working as part of the EU Quality Assurance team under the direction of Quality Manager Europe, you’ll be involved with ensuring the Quality Management System is well maintained, effective in its delivery and adhering to certification requirements, whilst adopting global best practice throughout your site and always on the lookout for improving our ways of working.

About the Role :
.The position covers all elements of the Quality Management System, including but not limited to, quality objectives and targets, documentation control, internal audits, quality investigation and CAPA, process control and risk-based thinking.
.Engage in Quality Team Meetings including KPI performance, audit results, training and corrective action status.
.Represent SGS in Client Quality review with customers to share Quality performance trackers, reports and action plans.
.Compile reports to aid performance monitoring and trend analysis to improve ways of working.
.Conduct and assist with internal investigations to ensure appropriate corrective actions are identified and implemented to prevent recurrence of issues.
.Assist with direct writing and / or review of Standard Operating Procedures and other controlled documents.
.Ensure SOP’s are up to date, accurate, meet the QMS requirements and aid the end users in their day to day roles.
.Help to develop and maintain the sites training documentation, co-ordinating training to procedural changes or new system implementation.
.Conduct internal audits and support additional appointed auditors. Assessing internal processes and procedures to identify areas of Risk and Opportunity.
.Contribute to regular interdepartmental team meetings to promote a culture of collaboration and innovation and to ensure important information on quality matters, workflows and best practices is being shared across all employees.

Educational Experience and Minimum Requirements:
Previous experience working in a Quality Assurance or support function.
Working knowledge of ISO 9001:2015 and quality systems management.
Experience in graphic industry desirable, but not essential.
Proficient in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint. Sharepoint, Teams.
Fluent in French and English, Spanish is a plus but not essential.

Competency Requirements:
Work Quality – provides accurate, thorough, professional work regularly. Excellent attention to detail when working under pressure.
Analysis and Judgement – analyses problems skilfully, uses logic and good judgement to reach decisions and solve problems.
Communication - Strong communication skills, both verbal and written with the ability to engage a senior-level audience
Confidence to be able to work on their own and as part of a wider team

Location:
Full time hybrid position, main site in Paris (15) and some travel to UK and Spain.

Who are we:
SGS & Co is a global brand impact group delivering speed and quality through innovation and insights to drive impact for our world class clients. We combine deep expertise in design, graphic services, production, technology, and process optimization with unmatched marketplace understanding, dynamic ideas, and client first customer service. We bring the world’s best brands to life and set them up for success in a modern world.

SGS & Co shifts brands to impact through the strength of our people. Our team of nearly 5,000 employees across 30+ countries works collaboratively to exceed client expectations today and anticipate how we’ll need to pivot together to win tomorrow. We take pride in our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion along with our ambition to lead the industry to a more sustainable future to drive positive impact for our clients, our people, and our planet.

We have an exciting new opportunity for a Category Lead (Project Manager), based in Amsterdam, reporting to the Project Manager Team Leader.

This role will be responsible for heading up a specific area of one of our industry leading FMCG clients, to deliver on the end-to-end process of a large number of projects.

The individual will proactively manage the client’s expectations, ensuring smooth delivery & communication at all times. Working closely with all stakeholders and graphic service partners, the ideal candidate will ensure an aligned approach to all projects & processes, driving on time delivery, full visibility and streamlined ways of working.

The individual will positively support all functions, working in a fast-paced environment and will be a key point of contact both internally and externally for their Category. The individual will also interact with production teams to create an efficient working environment, understanding priorities and achieving best outcomes.

Through accurate reporting they will recommend the best approach to achieve the clients desired results, highlighting risks and engaging support. Being commercially aware and responsive to client goals is essential.

Understanding and interpreting briefs from our client will be a huge part of this role, as such a creative background or knowledge of the packaging & artwork industry would be very much beneficial.

Remote working

Permanent contract

Working for one of the biggest skin care companies worldwide

Key Responsibilities:

• Taking artwork packaging briefs from clients and on-site contacts, interpreting and delivering to the studio for production assembly
• Answering queries and artwork/packaging specific questions in relation to the brief and delivery
• Working with the team & key stakeholders to ensure all artwork projects are planned, executed and delivered in a professional manner
• Build and maintain a strong positive working relationship between the team and promote efficient and accurate working practices.
• Provide up to date and timely reporting internally and externally regarding status updates and critical path plans
• Build and maintain relationships of trust with all of the client teams and suppliers providing support and advice where appropriate
• Prioritise workloads within your category and flag/discuss potential challenges with PM Team Lead
• Work with the client to ensure delivery of fit for use artwork inputs

Required Skills, Abilities and Qualifications:

• Demonstrate and actively promote a positive ‘can do’ attitude
• Strong people skills and the ability to take a lead where appropriate
• Strong organisational skills with ability to multi task
• Exceptional communication skills both verbal and written
• Astute attention to detail
• Independent thinker and leader requiring minimal guidance
• Approachable and trustworthy
• Knowledge of artwork, reprographics & print industry, within brand packaging
• Professional English required, German speaking ideally
• 3 years experience in a similar position

SGS&Co is looking for a Project Manager to work closely with the Operations Manager and be the first point of contact for the Client’s Marketing teams in the coordination of packaging/e-commerce development projects.
The PM will need to be an expert on the graphic chain and in the execution of packaging in compliance with the applicable standards, guidelines and printers' specifications.

Mission:
• Ensure the daily coordination of the production: manage workflows, summarize the information received from the customer, follow up on the quality of the production, and ensure deadlines are met.
• Point of contact for technical aspects: participation in technical meetings (launch of the range, contact with the printers, etc.), press passing, technical point of contact for proof management.
• Business development and optimization of the quality of our services.

The PM will be accountable for:
• detecting anomalies within the files and alerting the team,
• coordinating the artwork production between our team and clients,
• ensuring the deadlines are met, checking the progress with production, managing and coordinating the project. Responsible for the on-time & on-quality delivery.
• providing the client and production team with clear visibility on the timing and the global roadmap
• responsible for the development and execution of packaging ranges,
• performing quality control,
• ensuring compliance with the company's internal process as well as the client's process driving continuous improvement pipeline for artwork process and ensuring alignment with global artwork process
• maintaining and developing SGS&Co’s relationship with the Client.

Requirements :
• Possess very good technical skills, excellent knowledge of the graphic chain and packaging (artwork and reprography), printing processes (offset, flexo, rotogravure), proofing and colour management.
• Able to answer all artwork, pre-press & print queries. Experience in the delivery of all packaging artwork to print.
• Fluent in English and Spanish - Professional or Native
• Knowledge of Indesign, Illustrator and Photoshop preferred
• At least 3 years of experience in a similar position
• You like working on a team and have good interpersonal skills.
• You are organized, rigorous and proactive.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Pack

Position based in Barcelona (Espluges de Llobregat), Spain
Work arrangement: full-time in the office or hybrid (WFH and WFO)
Timeline: ASAP
Permanent contract

Our Company :
SGS & Co is a global brand impact group delivering speed and quality through innovation and insights to drive impact for our world-class clients. We combine deep expertise in design, graphic services, production, technology, and process optimization with unmatched marketplace understanding, dynamic ideas, and client-first customer service. We bring the world’s best brands to life and set them up for success in the modern world.
SGS & Co shifts brands to impact through the strength of our people. Our team of nearly 5,000 employees across 30+ countries works collaboratively to exceed client expectations today and anticipates how we’ll need to pivot together to win tomorrow. We take pride in our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion along with our ambition to lead the industry to a more sustainable future to drive a positive impact on our clients, our people, and our planet.

Sgsco is a global collective, collaborating to help brands Own The Moment™ when a consumer’s desire can be converted into action. We believe in the power of the package to convert interest into purchase; it’s what we call The Moment of Sale™. The sgsco collective delivers compelling package design and production consistently and quickly, with significant efficiencies, on a global scale.

We are currently seeking an Account Director to join our dedicated, talented team working with some of the best known names in the FMCG market. This is a remote role that will see you work predominately at home, with travel to clients based predominately in the South East of the UK, and the opportunity to travel to client sites in continental Europe.

In this role, you will lead the day-to-day business relationship with several blue-chip clients. You will of course ensure projects are completed on time, and on budget, as well as maximise commercial opportunities with those clients.

This role presents an ideal opportunity for an individual currently working within our industry, who is ready to take that next career step, and would potentially suit an individual in a Senior Account Manager role, looking to move into an Account Director level opportunity with a company that has ambitious plans for growth.

You will join a supportive, vibrant culture, with outstanding opportunities for career development, working with some of the most prestigious clients in the market.

The successful candidate will no doubt be a strong project manager with a high level of leadership potential. You will also have the opportunity to apply your influencing skills both internally and externally at a senior level. Of course, experience of packaging and/or design/artwork processes through to print are a must, as you'll be working at the very cutting edge of our industry.


In this role you will:
• Develop communication and promotional strategies
• Provide excellent commercial leadership and guidance
• Continually build and maintain strong and effective relationships with clients and stakeholders
• Continuously monitor progress, analysis and review of results to facilitate change
• Proactively work to generate additional briefs from existing clients through a full understanding of the client’s business base, needs and offering
• Collaborate with SGS teams to ensure on time delivery
• Be financially responsible to Senior Management and help drive the profitability of the account
• Oversee project delivery and billing
• Provide costings and proposals for clients when required, manage WIP, fee negotiations contract arrangements
• Complete all forecasts and demand planning and preparing and developing the client’s business plan
• Take a data driven approach to developing customer specific projects and innovations for a coordinated plan for improvement, and a results oriented approach coupled with measurements to demonstrate the meeting and exceeding expectations


You will have:
• Strong leadership, project management and inspirational skills
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence at a senior level
• A commitment to achieving results
• Strategic insight and experience of packaging and design/artwork processes
• A proven track record of working with high profile clients
• Good listening, negotiation and influencing skills
• Great ability to motivate people, build trust and promote team building with accountability
• Tenacity, passion and drive
• Strong presentation skills


What we offer:
You will enjoy an excellent base salary, along with the other many benefits of working for Marks including:

• Annual bonus
• Pension
• Healthcare scheme
• Life Assurance
• 25 days annual leave
• Digital GP Service
• Buy more holidays scheme (10 extra days per year)
• Health Assured Employee Assistance Programme
• City Bike Scheme (London only)
• Levy accredited qualifications
• Apple purchase discount scheme