Job Description:
Print Production Lead
Creve Coeur, MO
Franklin, TN
Hybrid (on-site 3 days a week)
The Print Production Officer plays a role in achieving our brand-building and growth journey -- with the aim to develop next-generation Royal Canin & EUKANUBA packaging and brand experiences. This furthers the distinctiveness, relevance and impact of the number one global pet nutrition brand worldwide, delivering our purpose to serve the health of millions of cats and dogs around the world.
Within the framework of ROYAL CANIN’s 2026 packaging roadmap, following premium brand values & sustainable development engagement, the Regional Print Production Officer will be responsible for the Print quality by supporting the deployment and monitoring color accuracy, color profiling & artwork print quality.
What are we looking for?
- Bachelor’s degree preferred.
- Minimum 3+ years of technical experience on Packaging printing technology (in printer, or repro house)
- Successful packaging experience with a repro-house or photoengraver and/or printer
- Skill to unite interfaces around shared projects.
- Previous experience with Color, Prepress, and Print technics.
- 3+ years of professional experience (graphic chain)
- Strong communication skills
- Stakeholder management skills
- Very customer-focused, able to focus on the result and stick to the target.
What would be your key responsibilities?
- Support Print Production Manager vision, process & strategy
- Qualification/audit of current & new printers (targets, process, KPI’s)
- Deploy the print quality improvement strategy & optimize the print quality to the state-of-the-art, whatever the print technology
- Deploy process and standards for print quality and color management.
- Control & monitor KPI on pack rendering consistency & quality.
- First Print scoring and image profiling
- Prepress and print technology development projects
- Co-manufacturers evaluation, process, monitoring & KPI’s.
- technical support for the graphics team
What can you expect from Mars?
- Work with over 130,000 with diverse and talented Associates, all guided by The Five Principles.
- Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
- Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
- An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.
Top Skills
What We Do
For more than a century, Mars, Incorporated has been driven by the belief that the world we want tomorrow starts with how we do business today. This idea is at the center of who we have always been as a global, family-owned business. Today, Mars is transforming, innovating and evolving in ways that affirm our commitment to making a positive impact on the world around us.
Across our diverse and expanding portfolio of confectionery, food, and petcare products and services, we employ 133,000 dedicated Associates who are all moving in the same direction: forward. With $40 billion in annual sales, we produce some of the world’s best-loved brands including DOVE®, EXTRA®, M&M’s®, MILKY WAY®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, ORBIT®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, SKITTLES®, WHISKAS®, COCOAVIA®, and 5™; and take care of half of the world’s pets through our pet health services AniCura, Banfield Pet Hospitals™, BluePearl®, Linnaeus, Pet Partners™, and VCA™.
We know we can only be truly successful if our partners and the communities in which we operate prosper as well. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire our Associates to take action every day to help create a world tomorrow in which the planet, its people and pets can thrive.
