Job Description
Job DescriptionApply now: Packaging Project Coordinator, Remote. Start date is ASAP for this 6 Month Contract position.
Job Title: Packaging Project Coordinator
Location-Type: Remote (local to Chicago preferred)
Start Date: ASAP
Duration: 6 Month Contract
Compensation Range: $35-$38/hr
Visa Sponsorship: Not eligible for visa sponsorship
Job Description:
- This role coordinates packaging design and production projects end-to-end, serving as a key cross-functional liaison between marketing, creative, regulatory, and production teams to deliver high-volume work on time and within brand standards in the consumer packaged goods industry.
Job Summary
- Plan and prioritize packaging and branding creative project requests, managing high-volume workflows with multiple moving parts
- Develop and maintain project timelines, track milestones, and follow work from design lead handoff through final delivery
- Assign tasks, manage project documentation, and generate status and resource reports using project management tools such as Dragonfly or comparable platforms
- Liaise cross-functionally with marketing, creative, regulatory, and production teams, treating the marketing team as an internal client
- Review artwork for brand compliance and accuracy, overseeing the design-to-print process from initiation through prepress and vendor coordination
- Manage communication and relationships with prepress vendors and support process management including digital uploads
- Participate in commercialization meetings and provide proactive, solutions-oriented coordination on quick-turn requests
Minimum Requirements:
- 3-5 years of creative project coordination or account management experience in a packaging, Client, design, or advertising agency environment
- Demonstrated familiarity with packaging design and print production processes, including end-to-end design-to-print workflow
- Experience using project management tools such as Dragonfly, Basecamp, or a comparable platform
- Strong organizational, time-management, and stakeholder communication skills with a proactive, detail-oriented mindset
- Positive, engaging personality with the ability to work cross-functionally and guide marketing stakeholders through the creative process
Preferred Qualifications:
- Understanding of offset, flexographic, and gravure printing methods
- Experience working with Adobe Illustrator and packaging or production artwork templates
- Knowledge of prepress preparation and production artwork processes