Senior Packaging Graphic Designer

Sanofi; Morristown (NJ); On-site; USD 81,000 - 118,000; Full time

Job summary

Sanofi is seeking a Senior Packaging Graphic Designer to translate approved packaging concepts into production-ready artwork and printed materials. You will own artwork governance, standards, workflows, and final releases to ensure brand integrity, regulatory compliance, and supply continuity.

Collaborating with Regulatory, Packaging Design, Engineering, Product Development, and Supply Chain, you will deliver high-quality design assets across labelling and packaging.

Qualifications

• Associate’s or Bachelor’s in graphic design with 3–5 years in pharma/regulated industries.
• Strong portfolio of packaging artwork concepts.
• Experience managing artwork development from concept to production release.
• Knowledge of GMP and regulated packaging requirements.
• Ability to lead cross-functional packaging projects.

Responsibilities

• Scope of Work: lead packaging artwork development and regulatory labeling for packaging and print materials.
• Develop scalable artwork workflows, approvals, version control, and documentation standards.
• Coordinate packaging artwork projects with cross-functional teams and external agencies.
• Own post-launch artwork changes and BOM updates with production partners.
• Provide guidance on typography, color management, and production processes to ensure quality.
• Manage budgets related to packaging artwork operations and external partners.

Skills

Portfolio

Regulatory labeling

Project coordination

GMP familiarity

Brand design

Print production

Education

Associate’s degree in graphic design, graphic communication, visual communications, fine arts or related field

Bachelor’s degree in graphic design, graphic communication, visual communications, fine arts or related field

Tools

InDesign

Illustrator

Job description

Job Title

Senior Packaging Graphic Designer

Location

This role offers flexibility for candidates to be based near any of our Sanofi facilities: Morristown, Swiftwater, Cambridge, Framingham or Northborough.

About the Job

The Senior, Packaging Graphic Designer, leads the translation of approved packaging design concepts into production ready artwork and printed materials. This role owns packaging artwork governance, execution standards, workflows, and final file readiness to ensure brand integrity, regulatory compliance, operational feasibility, and supply continuity. The Manager collaborates closely with Packaging Design, Packaging Engineering, Regulatory, Product Development, Supply Chain, Production, Master Data, external vendors, and print partners to deliver high-quality packaging artwork through disciplined processes, strong project management, and continuous improvement. Leads the creation and execution of visual design solutions across regulatory product labelling and packaging, to support sales growth and business objectives. Provides creative leadership, ensures brand consistency, collaborates with cross functional stakeholders, and delivers high-quality design assets that meet consumer, customer, regulatory, and production requirements. Join a global network that powers how Sanofi delivers - seamlessly, purposefully, and at scale. In Manufacturing & Supply, you’ll help reimagine how life-changing treatments reach people everywhere, faster.

About Sanofi

We are an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people’s lives and delivering compelling growth. Our deep understanding of the immune system and innovative pipeline – enables us to invent medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people around the world. Together, we chase the miracles of science to improve lives.

Main Responsibilities

Scope of Work, Packaging Artwork Development and Commercialization: Leads the post-Design phase of packaging artwork development, design, and production of regulatory labelling for commercial pharmaceutical, medical device packaging, print materials that align with brand strategies and business objectives. Ensuring seamless translation of creative concepts into accurate, production ready artwork files. Owns artwork execution standards, workflows, governance, and final release processes to support successful commercialization. Experience working with regulatory labeling, dielines, label, carton, leaflet for pharmaceutical or medical device packaging with management of multiple SKUs from end to end with compliance and right first time at the forefront of each project. Create compelling, consumer focused visual solutions that effectively communicate brand positioning and enhance customer engagement through regulatory labelling of label, carton, leaflets. Maintain proficiency in industry standard design software InDesign and Illustrator and stay current on emerging design trends, technologies, regulations, and consumer insights.

Artwork Governance and Operational Excellence

Builds and continuously improves scalable artwork workflows, approval systems, version control processes, and documentation standards that enhance speed, accuracy, consistency, and predictability. Ensures all artwork assets are organized, archived, and audit ready within centralized systems. Prepare accurate production files and specifications for packaging, print, digital, and merchandising applications. Ensure designs meet technical requirements for printing, manufacturing, and digital deployment. Ensure consistent application of brand standards, visual identity guidelines, and design best practices across all creative assets.

Cross Functional Project Leadership

Serves as the central point of coordination for packaging artwork projects, providing visibility through project tracking, reporting, risk identification, dependency management, and proactive communication. Partners closely with Packaging Design, Packaging Engineering, Regulatory, Product Development, Supply Chain, Production, and Master Data to ensure successful execution and alignment. Collaborates with external artwork agencies as needed, internal and external plants, and execution partners, regulatory, quality, and proofreading at the Global level ensuring alignment on scope, quality, timing, and performance expectations. Manage artwork revisions, approvals, and version control for product launches and throughout the design lifecycle. Lead multiple design projects simultaneously while maintaining high-quality standards and meeting established timelines.

Post Launch Artwork Management

Owns all artwork only changes following product launch, including updates driven by design evolution, regulatory requirements, market needs, and business priorities. Ensures changes are executed accurately and without disruption to supply. Coordinates BOM updates with Packaging and Master Data teams and partners with Production to ensure clear communication of phase-in and phase-out timing requirements.

Resource and Team Management

Perform proofreading to ensure all artwork, graphics, and visual communications are error free and compliant before release into the Supply Chain to patients. Serve as a subject matter expert on graphic design, packaging design, typography, color management, and production processes. Provide creative direction and design recommendations that support company growth initiatives, product launches, and customer-specific programs. Leads and develops internal packaging artwork resources, including artwork coordination and design execution functions. Manages workload planning, resource allocation, performance management, capability building, and career development to support organizational goals.

Budget and Continuous Improvement

Identifies opportunities to improve efficiency, optimize costs, and enhance operating models to support growing business complexity and volume. Owns budgets related to packaging artwork operations, including external agencies, contract resources, and supporting partners.

About You – Basic Qualifications

Associate’s degree in Graphic Design, Graphic Communication, Visual Communications, Fine Arts or related field with a minimum of 5 years of professional experience in pharmaceutical, medical device, life sciences, or Regulated CPG industries OR Bachelor's degree in graphic design, graphic communication, Visual Communications, Fine Arts or related field with a minimum of 3 years of professional experience in pharmaceutical, medical device, life sciences, or Regulated CPG industries. Strong experience oriented to regulatory labelling graphic design work, packaging operations, print production, creative operations, or related functions. Demonstrated expertise across print, digital, brand, design. Strong portfolio showcasing creative concept development and execution. Experience managing artwork development from concept handoff through production release. Strong understanding of packaging print processes, artwork management systems, color approval processes, and packaging specifications. Familiarity and/or training in GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) activities and regulated environment requirements.

Why choose us?

Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team. Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally. Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact. Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs and at least 14 weeks’ gender-neutral parental leave. Shape the future of medicine and vaccine delivery with cutting-edge technology, ensuring seamless launches and a resilient global supply. Power industry-leading performance by leveraging digital, data, and AI-driven innovation - at speed and scale. Transform lives worldwide by delivering life-changing treatments anywhere, anytime.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity employers committed to a culturally inclusive workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; marital, domestic partnership or civil union status; sex, gender, gender identity or expression; affectional or sexual orientation; disability; veteran or military status or liability for military status; domestic violence victim status; atypical cellular or blood trait; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other characteristic protected by law.

Additional Information

#GD-SA #LI-SA #VHD Pursue progress, discover extraordinary Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

Program / Applicant Information

Sanofi US endeavours to make our career center accessible to any and all users. US and Puerto Rico Residents Only Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity employers committed to a culturally inclusive workforce. North America Applicants Only

Salary

The salary range for this position is: $81.375,00 - $117.541,66. All compensation will be determined commensurate with demonstrated experience. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs, and additional benefits information can be found here.

Company Overview

We are an R&D driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people’s lives and creating compelling growth. Our team is guided by one purpose: we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We want to build a healthier, more resilient world, and turn the impossible into the possible by discovering, developing, and delivering medicines and vaccines for millions of people around the world. Discover more about us visiting www.sanofi.com or via our movie. We are Sanofi. Start a career that makes a difference. Reinvention is in our DNA. It’s what drove our evolution from a small French enterprise to one of the world’s leading biopharma companies. Whether it’s using AI to shorten drug-discovery times or building trust in healthcare, you could be helping our teams make life better for patients, partners, and communities. This is where you grow your career. We open the door for you to explore new opportunities, push your limits, and connect with people who are driven by a shared purpose: we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives.