Lead Designer (d/f/m)

About this Position

Lead Designer guides studio production while working directly with international brand managers and/or project managers to create digital designs for innovation, marketing, and pre-production. Is responsible for tracking time, understanding the needs of the requestor, is able confidently express their expertise, and delivering works that suit the intended purpose. Has demonstrated a keen aesthetic eye and ability to understand complex task and monitors team performance and supports the team leaders in developing other designers. Lead process improvement initiatives, supports the team in various tasks, such as overseeing onboarding and development.

What You´ll Do

• Create and edit master and pre-production digital content (e.g., images, illustrations or layouts) to achieve highest quality outputs using the appropriate tools. Leads complex projects with multiple designers and/or stakeholders
• Localize and adapt already existing digital assets for preproduction, product mockups, marketing purposes and various corporate needs while Identifying potential for further design work or services
• Works directly with cluster lead and/or principle designer to develop and maintaining studio vision and creative direction
• Lead the product packaging and project design process working directly with other designers to meet stakeholders needs and supporting the team with regular communications, briefings, and feedback sessions
• Manage time and priorities appropriately, approach work in an organized and systematic manner. Ensure designs and delivery follow internal processes and are compliant with BU/brand guidelines and identity standards
• Define and maintain the onboarding process, project pipeline, knowledge sharing libraries and facilitate best practices and constructive critiques. Monitor designers and ensure designs and communications follow defined processes and best practices and cost/time estimates are accurate and tracked

What makes you a good fit

• Expert mastery of Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign), Figma
• 7+ years of professional creative graphic design experience
• Deep technical expertise in print production & prepress standards and graphic desgin for online use
• Proven capability in project management
• Exceptional eye for quality control (QC), brand governance, typography, and visual consistency across global multi-channel campaigns
• Strong leadership and cross-functional collaboration skills
• Fluent English skills (written and spoken) suitable for working within an international, cross-location team environment

Some perks of joining Henkel

• Flexible work scheme with flexible hours, hybrid work model, and work from anywhere policy for up to 30 days per year
• Diverse national and international growth opportunities
• Global wellbeing standards with health and preventive care programs
• Gender-neutral parental leave for a minimum of 8 weeks
• Employee Share Plan with voluntary investment and Henkel matching shares
• Company Pension Plan 100% financed by Henkel
• MEGA Preventive Health Insurance
• CareFlex Supplementary Care Insurance
• Mobility offer: My Henkel Bike and Jobticket

At Henkel, we come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We believe the uniqueness of all our employees is the power in us. Become part of the team and bring your uniqueness to us! We welcome all applications across different genders, origins, cultures, religions, sexual orientations, generations and disabilities. If there are any specific accommodations or adjustments you require for the interview process or your on-site appointment, please inform us, and we'll do our best to accommodate your requests.

Note: The email address you provide during the application process may also be used in later stages (e.g. for contract execution via digital tools). Please ensure that only you have access to this mailbox and that you can securely receive confidential information through it.

We promote careers in flexible working models and enable career-life integration for different capacity levels. We thus welcome applications in full-time and part-time.