Manager, Brand Applications (Packaging)

Thornton Tomasetti; United States; On-site; USD 99,000 - 199,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

HIP health coverage for employees

Excellent retirement plan with high-em

Tuition reimbursement and FreeU

Abbott benefits program

Job summary

Abbott, a global healthcare leader, is seeking a Manager of Brand Applications to translate Abbott's visual identity into distinctive packaging and product experiences across a diverse portfolio. You will work between brand strategy and product execution to apply visual identity to packaging, touchpoints, and customer interactions.

The ideal candidate has a strong packaging design portfolio, experience redesigning packaging systems for complex products, and superior stakeholder management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Packaging Design, Industrial Design, or related discipline.
• 8+ years of experience in packaging design, brand identity, or product experience design.
• Extensive experience designing and redesigning packaging systems for complex product portfolios.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating packaging design, brand identity application, and physical product experiences.
• Proven ability to translate brand strategy into scalable design systems and customer-facing experiences.
• Excellent stakeholder management, presentation, and communication skills.
• A portfolio demonstrating significant packaging design experience is required.

Responsibilities

• Lead the application of Abbott's visual identity across packaging, product experiences, and divisional brand touchpoints.
• Design and evolve packaging systems that align with Abbott's brand strategy while supporting business and customer needs.
• Create scalable visual frameworks, packaging architectures, and design standards across global portfolios.
• Partner with marketing, product, regulatory, and commercial teams to translate strategy into compelling design solutions.
• Provide creative direction and design feedback to internal teams and agency partners.
• Drive consistency, quality, and innovation across Abbott's branded product experiences.
• Help shape brand guidelines and tools that enable effective execution across divisions and markets.

Skills

Packaging design

Brand identity

Product experience design

Portfolio presentation

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Packaging Design, Industrial Design, or related discipline

Job description

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Working at Abbott At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of .
• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

As Manager, Brand Applications, you will lead the design and evolution of Abbott's packaging and product experience systems, translating Abbott's visual identity into distinctive divisional brand expressions across a global portfolio.

This role sits between corporate brand strategy and product execution, defining how Abbott's visual identity is applied across packaging, product touchpoints, and customer experiences.

The ideal candidate is an experienced packaging designer with a strong portfolio demonstrating brand identity application, packaging redesign, and system-level thinking across complex product portfolios.

What You’ll Work On

• Lead the application of Abbott's visual identity across packaging, product experiences, and divisional brand touchpoints
• Design and evolve packaging systems that align with Abbott's brand strategy while supporting business and customer needs
• Create scalable visual frameworks, packaging architectures, and design standards across global portfolios
• Partner with marketing, product, regulatory, and commercial teams to translate strategy into compelling design solutions
• Provide creative direction and design feedback to internal teams and agency partners
• Drive consistency, quality, and innovation across Abbott's branded product experiences
• Help shape brand guidelines and tools that enable effective execution across divisions and markets

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Packaging Design, Industrial Design, or related discipline
• 8+ years of experience in packaging design, brand identity, or product experience design
• Extensive experience designing and redesigning packaging systems for complex product portfolios
• Strong portfolio demonstrating packaging design, brand identity application, and physical product experiences
• Proven ability to translate brand strategy into scalable design systems and customer-facing experiences
• Excellent stakeholder management, presentation, and communication skills
• A portfolio demonstrating significant packaging design experience is required.

Candidates whose experience is primarily in marketing, design operations, labeling execution, or quality/regulatory functions without substantial packaging design work will not be considered.

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: www.abbottbenefits.com

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity. Connect with us at www.abbott.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott and on Twitter @AbbottNews and @AbbottGlobal.

The base pay for this position is $99,300.00 – $198,700.00 In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

JOB FAMILY: Marketing Support DIVISION: PA Public Affairs LOCATION: United States > Abbott Park : AP01 ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS: United States > Chicago : Willis Tower Building 233 S Wacker Dr.

WORK SHIFT: Standard TRAVEL: Not specified MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE: Not Applicable SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES: Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

EEO is the Law link - English: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_English.pdf EEO is the Law link - Espanol: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_Spanish.pdf

Abbott is about the power of health. For more than 135 years, Abbott has been helping people reach their potential — because better health allows people and communities to achieve more. With a diverse, global network serving customers in more than 160 countries, we create new solutions — across the spectrum of health, around the world, for all stages of life. Whether it’s next-generation diagnostics, life-changing devices, science-based nutrition, or novel reformulations, we are advancing some of the most innovative and revolutionary technologies in healthcare, helping people live their best lives through better health. The people of Abbott come to work each day with relentless energy, enthusiasm and a promise to enhance the health and well-being of millions of people. They push the boundaries to help manage and treat some of life’s greatest health challenges. We invite you to explore opportunities at Abbott, to see if your talents and career aspirations may fit with our openings. An equal opportunity employer, Abbott welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.

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