Santosh Karkera

Leading Packaging Design Innovation for Colgate-Palmolive with Design Thinking

Role
Packaging Innovation & Design Manager at Colgate-Palmolive
Location
Mumbai, MH, IN
LinkedIn followers
500 followers
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About Santosh Karkera

At Colgate-Palmolive, our team spearheads packaging innovation, merging design thinking with rapid prototyping to accelerate market delivery and improve structural product designs. My role as Packaging Innovation & Design Manager emphasizes consumer-centric approaches and cross-category collaboration, ensuring that Colgate\'s brand experience is elevated at every touchpoint.With a focus on agility, we advance new packaging concepts and processes, prioritizing sustainability and aesthetic appeal. My certification as an OKR Practitioner supports our mission to implement actionable objectives and foster a culture of continuous improvement. We partner with internal and external stakeholders to manifest visionary designs that resonate in the marketplace and contribute to Colgate\'s legacy of excellence.

Experience

  1. Packaging Innovation & Design Manager

    Colgate-Palmolive

    Feb 2021 — Present · Mumbai, IN

    In my role as Packaging Innovation & Design Manager at Colgate-Palmolive, I led cross-category Packaging Design Innovation to enhance user experience through new structural product design. I managed ideation, rapid prototyping, and structure improvement to elevate the Colgate brand experience at key touchpoints. Additionally, I partnered with Cross category teams to deliver best in class graphics and instilled a consumer-led design mindset in the team.

Education

  • Mumbai University

    B.Com, Accounting and Finance

    1997 — 1999

  • Mumbai University

    H.S.C

    1994 — 1996

  • Welingkar Institute of Management

    DAPR, Advertising and Public Relations

    2010 — 2011

  • Maharashtra State Board

    S.S.C; Honours Diploma; Diploma

    1986 — 1993

Skills

  • Advertising
  • Layout
  • Posters
  • Mac
  • Pre-Press
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Logo Design
  • Brochures
  • Graphic Design
  • Graphics
  • Illustration
  • Photoshop
  • Flash
  • Indesign
  • Packaging Design
  • Packaging
  • Marketing Communications
  • Dreamweaver
  • Illustrator
  • Image Manipulation

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