Global Brand Color Program Manager

Imagine a world where everyone has access to clean water, safe food and medicine, and trusted essential goods. That is the tomorrow Veralto (VLTO) is creating today.

Veralto is headquartered in Waltham, Mass. with 13 operating companies and 300+ locations worldwide. Our global team of 16,000 associates is committed to making an enduring positive impact on the world and is united by a powerful purpose: Safeguarding the World’s Most Vital Resources™.

Veralto is a global leader in essential technology solutions with annual revenue of nearly $5 billion and a proven track record of solving some of the most complex challenges we face as a society. Our industry-leading companies and globally recognized brands are building on a long-established legacy of innovation and customer trust to create a safer, cleaner, more vibrant future.

Veralto’s Water Quality companies—Aquatic Informatics, ChemTreat, Hach, McCrometer, OTT HydroMet, Sea-Bird Scientific, Trojan Technologies and XOS—help manage, treat, purify, and protect the global water supply, from municipal and industrial wastewater treatment facilities to lakes, rivers, watersheds, and oceans.

Our Product Quality & Innovation companies—Esko, Linx, Pantone, Videojet, and X-Rite—help package and protect the world’s food, medicine, and essentials, tracing and authenticating billions of goods that travel the global supply chain every day.

WHO WE ARE:

Headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan, X-Rite is a global company with locations around the world. Experts in blending the art and science of color, we focus on providing complete end-to-end color management solutions for our clients in every industry where color matters.

Job Details:

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.

Critical Success Factors for the Ideal Candidate Profile are:

• Develop a thorough understanding of all related products/services that can bring value to X-Rite customers.
• Partner with Sales Account Managers to support customer retention, renewals, and program growth.
• Develop strong consultative relationships with customers by understanding their business objectives and process-improvement requirements. Recognize expansion opportunities.
• Work in partnership with Sales Account Managers to articulate and demonstrate X-Rite Print quality program’s value proposition to support renewals and program expansion.
• Demonstrate how proposed solutions can improve or complement the customer’s existing workflows, technology environment, and business processes.
• Build consultative customer relationships and identify improvement opportunities.
• Manage and deliver global color and print-quality programs for major brand customers.

We are looking for a professional who is/has:

• 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 then 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.

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. 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.

Your Education and Background Experience will include:

• 5 to 7 relevant years of experience in:
  • Program Management/ Operational
  • Customer Success/Implementation/ Roll out.
• 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.

Our offer:

• You will join a dynamic and collaborative international team focused on delivering customer results and driving continuous improvement.
• In this consultative role, you will partner with customer stakeholders and internal experts to achieve strategic business objectives.
• You will have the opportunity to manage a global print and color-quality program for one of the world’s leading brands, working across regions, cultures, and supply-chain partners.
  You will also benefit from a supportive environment that values teamwork, professional development, individual strengths, and continuous learning.

Our core values:

We empower creativity and unconventional thinking to help us uncover breakthrough solutions and accelerate the pace of innovation. We believe with conviction that diversity helps us discover more powerful customer insights and ultimately creates a competitive advantage in the markets we serve.

And we would love to have you on this journey with us! Apply today.

At Veralto, we value diversity and the existence of similarities and differences, both visible and not, found in our workforce, workplace and throughout the markets we serve. Our associates, customers and shareholders contribute unique and different perspectives as a result of these diverse attributes.

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