[Hiring] Global Brand Color Program Manager @X-Rite

Role Description

X-Rite’s Global Brand Strategic Accounts team helps customers achieve consistent print and color quality across their global packaging supply chains. Our portfolio of products and professional services enables customers to establish color and print-quality specifications, measure performance, and report results across their operations.

The Global Brand Color Program Manager will lead the operational, technical, and project-management activities for a strategic global Brand account. The role will coordinate program deployment across regions, suppliers, printers, pre-media partners, and internal teams to ensure consistent execution, measurable performance, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• A customer-oriented professional who builds trust through a strong work ethic, reliability, and a customer-focused approach.
• A flexible and creative professional style with a knack for building relationships, influencing, and challenging the status quo.
• Customer- and project-management-oriented, with the ability to balance operational delivery, technical requirements, customer satisfaction, and commercial awareness.
• A proactive and strategic thinker who understands customer and business needs and is keen to bring forward and present new ideas and industry-leading practices to meet the identified needs.
• Strong customer-facing and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex technology solutions and process improvements to audiences with different levels of experience, including executive stakeholders.
• Fluent in English; proficiency in additional global languages is an advantage.

Requirements

• 5 to 7 relevant years of experience in:
• Program Management/Operational
• Customer Success/Implementation/Rollout
• Experience in print & packaging, color management, pre-media, artwork management, or print production environments.
• Strong stakeholder management, analytical, presentation, and consultative skills.
• Ability to engage customers ranging from operational teams to executive leadership.
• Fluent in English; additional languages are a plus.

Key Deliverables

• Program Management & Reporting – Monitor overall program progress, track performance against established KPIs, compile key data, and provide regular performance reports and insight.
• Project Management – Manage program-related projects and initiatives, ensuring seamless execution, timely delivery, and adherence to defined quality standards.
• Printer Onboarding & Support – Lead printer onboarding adoption of solutions, performance management, and compliance with quality standards.
• Bottler & Pre-Media Support – Support the onboarding and training of bottlers and pre-media agencies to ensure understanding and consistent application of color standards and program requirements.
• Dedicated Color Expertise – Provide packaging industry color management expertise and maintain color libraries.
• Best Practices & Continuous Improvement – Share and recommend best practices from across different markets and support their implementation to drive consistency, efficiency, and improved print quality.
• Color Library Management – Coordinate with printers, bottlers, pre-media agencies (Artwork), and internal teams worldwide.
• Global Program Governance and Stakeholder Management – Establish stakeholder reviews, risk management, and executive reporting.

Benefits

• Join a dynamic and collaborative international team focused on delivering customer results and driving continuous improvement.
• Partner with customer stakeholders and internal experts to achieve strategic business objectives.
• Manage a global print and color-quality program for one of the world’s leading brands, working across regions, cultures, and supply-chain partners.
• Benefit from a supportive environment that values teamwork, professional development, individual strengths, and continuous learning.