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
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
Packaging Innovation & Design Manager
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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