{"id":4171740,"url":"https://alion.io/job/icp-senior-print-packaging-project-manager","title":"Senior Print & Packaging Project Manager","company":{"id":691381,"name":"ICP","domain":"icpnet.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/icpnet","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Rippling","truth_index":null},"role":"Management","role_family":"Management","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"contractor","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Atlanta, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Microsoft Excel","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-12T14:17:40Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-12","last_verified_at":"2026-11-12T21:43:29Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"About ICP\nICP is a global leader in Content Operations, partnering with some of the world's most recognizable brands, including Unilever, Diageo, Coca-Cola, Mars, P&G, Starbucks, Coty, L’Oréal, NBCU, and Aetna. Our expertise spans content management, logistics, creative operations, production, and digital commerce enablement, ensuring a seamless flow of content across all systems and channels. We empower brands to achieve operational excellence and confidently manage their content. Content confidently.™\nWith offices in Atlanta, London, Mexico City, Mumbai, and Shanghai, we operate on a global scale, delivering world-class solutions that drive exceptional business outcomes.\nWho We Are\nAt ICP, our values define us: we are Curious, Focused, Creative, Trustworthy, and Inclusive.\nWe're A People First Company\nAt ICP, we provide benefits that matter to our people and enable us to be engaged both in and outside of work. We foster a culture where work/lifebalance is nurtured and encouraged, offering hybrid working, generous paid time off, paid holidays, volunteer time off, and Summer half-day Fridays. We also take care of our people with competitive medical, dental, and vision benefits, mental health support, and a robust savings plan.\nBring the Confidence\nAre you a relationship-focused, driven professional with a growth mindset? Do you thrive on breaking through challenges and excelling in competitive environments? You're not expected to have all the answers, but your passion for uncovering solutions and building strong partnerships makes you the perfect fit for this role. We’d love to hear from you!\nThe Senior Print & Packaging Project Manager will lead a high-volume global packaging programme from client brief through production, review, approval and final delivery. The role will act as the senior day-to-day client partner, translating complex requirements into clear and actionable work for ICP’s Studio and specialist production teams.\nThe successful candidate will combine deep print and packaging production knowledge with strong client judgement, commercial awareness and the confidence to manage priorities, challenge unclear or unrealistic requests and escalate risks early. The role will work closely with ICP’s Studio, quality and automation teams, drawing on flexible project support and specialist expertise as required by workload and scope.\nKey Responsibilities\nClient leadership and partnership\nAct as the senior day-to-day ICP contact, building trusted relationships across the client’s marketing, packaging, production and operational teams.\nBecome deeply familiar with the client environment, seasonal programme, stakeholders, approval routes and internal ways of working.\nLead client briefings, cross-functional meetings, status reviews and key decision points.\nManage expectations clearly and confidently, including where late inputs, conflicting direction or scope changes affect timing, cost or delivery.\nConsolidate client direction and ensure ICP receives an agreed source of truth rather than competing instructions.\nPrint and packaging production leadership\nLead the full project lifecycle for high-volume, detail-heavy print and packaging programmes.\nProvide expert advice on packaging production, print specifications, artwork adaptation, colour management, reprographics, substrates, finishes and production risk.\nTranslate complex briefs and data into clear production plans, deliverables, schedules and review stages.\nEnsure work is built to specification, brand standards, market requirements and agreed quality gates.\nConfirm that the packaging inputs required for production are complete and accessible, including imagery, templates, regulatory content, translations and multi-market requirements, while maintaining clear boundaries around responsibilities retained by the client.\nOversee versioning, approvals and final delivery across ICP and client platforms or DAMs.\nPlanning, prioritisation and risk\nOwn seasonal planning, milestones, dependencies and delivery readiness.\nBalance competing requests and make clear priority decisions with the client and ICP teams.\nIdentify missing or contradictory information before work enters production and agree the resolution path.\nEscalate delivery, scope, resource and commercial risks early, with practical options and recommendations.\nProtect sustainable working practices by ensuring urgent requests have clear trade-offs and consequences.\nWays of working and workflow improvement\nWork effectively with available project, production and specialist support, using additional capacity where justified by workload, programme peaks or agreed scope.\nRetain ownership of the client relationship, commercial decisions, priorities and final project accountability, while ensuring work is distributed sensibly across the available team.\nCreate clear handoffs into Studio, translation, QC and other agreed specialist teams.\nDocument key decisions, assumptions and exceptions so knowledge is not held by one person.\nContribute to process improvement and help embed automation that reduces repetitive briefing and reconciliation work.\nCommercial and account management\nPrepare estimates, monitor scope, track budgets and support reconciliation and invoicing.\nIdentify additional or out-of-scope activity and ensure it is surfaced commercially rather than silently absorbed.\nContribute to account planning, process reviews and proposals for improved services.\nProvide concise reporting on programme status, risks, workload and financial performance.\nExperience and Skills\nSubstantial experience leading print and packaging production within a creative production agency, brand, studio or comparable environment.\nDemonstrable success managing complex, high-volume and fast-moving packaging programmes for international brands.\nStrong technical understanding of print, packaging artwork, colour, reprographics, production specifications and pre-press processes.\nExperience managing multi-market, multi-language and localisation requirements.\nExcellent client-facing judgement, including the confidence to challenge assumptions, clarify ambiguity and negotiate realistic priorities and timing.\nHighly organised and able to manage extensive briefs, spreadsheets, trackers, assets, approvals and concurrent deliverables without losing the strategic picture.\nCommercially aware, with experience in estimates, scope control, budget tracking and reconciliation.\nComfortable working in client-controlled systems and becoming embedded in a client environment while maintaining clear ICP governance and boundaries.\nAdvanced Excel capability and confidence with workflow, approval and asset-management platforms. Experience with automation or structured-data workflows is highly desirable.\nClear, calm communicator with strong leadership, problem-solving and stakeholder-management skills.\nWhat Success Looks Like\nThe client has a trusted senior partner who understands the programme and provides clear leadership.\nICP Studio teams receive complete, actionable and prioritised briefs.\nConflicting information and risks are resolved early rather than discovered during production.\nRoutine coordination is managed through clear processes and flexible support, avoiding dependency on one individual and reflecting the agreed division of responsibilities between the client and ICP.\nLate changes and additional scope are visible, managed and reflected in timing or cost.\nAutomation and improved workflows reduce manual checking while preserving human judgement and quality.\nThe account operates sustainably through peak seasons without relying on exceptional personal effort.","description_format":"text","description_chars":7654,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Hybrid work"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Creative Agencies","Digital Marketing"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-12T14:55:18Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":16,"reasons":["conf:1","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-12T23:22:21Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/icp-senior-print-packaging-project-manager","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/icp-senior-print-packaging-project-manager.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-12T23:22:21Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":49440,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-13T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":691381},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=691381"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Ficp-senior-print-packaging-project-manager"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"free","price":{"credits":0,"usd":0},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Ficp-senior-print-packaging-project-manager"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Ficp-senior-print-packaging-project-manager"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/icp-senior-print-packaging-project-manager\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Ficp-senior-print-packaging-project-manager"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":4171740}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"icpnet.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":4171740},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}