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Nestlé’s Research & Development Center is our regional powerhouse driving innovation in food, beverage, and pharmaceutical science. Backed by our global Nestlé R&D organization, we lead breakthrough discoveries that are both good for consumers and the planet. Our team of experts range from product developers to engineers, working across our portfolio of food, beverage, infant nutrition, and health science to create leading-edge products and services. As part of our organization, you will use your entrepreneurial spirit and commitment to excellence to unlock the power of food and provide premium value.

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JOB SUMMARY:

This position is responsible to support end-to-end design development activities of Accelerator projects from ideation to shop test. Those projects aim to develop innovative food and beverage products that answer to consumer needs and deliver incremental growth outside Nestlé’s core. The Designer will collaborate with project teams to generate all elements of graphic design executions (digital and physical) to communicate key brand and product attributes to consumers and internal stakeholders, and facilitate experimentation of design to shape and refine ideas and insights into brand and product concepts that are attractive and differentiating.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Conduct external category and competitive audits to inform design process and direction
• Demonstrate design authority while working effectively in a team
• Utilize creative problem solving through design thinking
• Generate iterative digital design stimuli for Test & Learn process, and physical packaging graphic design for use in Shop tests, integrating consumer and stakeholder feedback into original ideas to improve them
• Propose and implement new tools for early conceptualization
• Translate ideas into sketches, designs, storyboards, renderings and prototypes, making the idea tangible
• Prepare final designs, including artwork, text and photography, for transfer to packaging production
• Effectively manage between stakeholders and business partners (innovation agencies, design agencies, printers, etc)
• Effectively network within Nestlé USA and R&D design community to support Accelerator teams in accessing all needed knowledge to advance the design of concepts, and where appropriate, ensure guardrails for legacy Nestlé brands’ visual identity are respected
• Manage and prioritize as necessary multiple design workstreams across multiple projects simultaneously
• Stay up-to-date with design trends, prototyping techniques and external capabilities to support Accelerator projects
• Facilitate the ideation process through visual aids and recommendations, based on exploration and through diverging/converging in facilitated discussion
• Support Accelerator project teams in creating new innovative concepts

JOB QUALIFICATIONS (Education, Experience and Knowledge):

• Experience in Design Thinking
• Highly creative, insightful and dynamic
• Preferred minimum 3 years creative experience in a design field
• Understanding of brand visual identity and consumer insights
• Experience in industrial design and/or packaging graphical design preferred
• Degree in Graphic Design
• Proficiency in sketching and drawing

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