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Summary: The Director of Packaging leads the Packaging pole of Product Operations: Packaging Development & Industrialization, and a new Packaging R&D capability. This role owns the technical packaging solution from brief to production readiness at suppliers and contract manufacturers, moves technical risk upstream through risk-based pilots and evidence, and builds proven, PPWR-ready platforms for future launches. It works with an independent End-to-End Quality team.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities :
Packaging Strategy & Leadership
Define and own the packaging technical strategy and roadmap for Y+2 and Y+3 launches.
Lead two sub-poles, Development & Industrialization and Packaging R&D, through strong leads with clear decision rights.
Protect R&D time and budget from live-launch pressure; escalate trade-offs to the VP, Product Operations.
Size the team from real workload and portfolio data.
Packaging Development & Industrialization
Own the technical delivery of every launch, from brief to PPS.
Run risk-based pathways, set from the 1 to 5 risk score and confirmed by Quality.
Secure pilot molds and homologation before production tooling for new, high-risk packs.
Lead drawings, GD&T, tolerance stack-ups, functional analysis, DFMA and formula/pack compatibility.
Own tooling validation, line trials, PPS and scale-up readiness at suppliers and contract manufacturers.
Packaging R&D & Innovation
Build and lead Packaging R&D: platforms and technology, advanced development and innovation, Kaizen.
Build a library of proven packs, supplier standards, design rules and test files.
Lead technical and experience sourcing.
Hand concepts over to development only once proven.
Sustainability & PPWR
Own the packaging sustainability roadmap, balancing consumer experience, brand, cost and regulation.
Lead PPWR readiness for new launches and the existing portfolio, with Regulatory owning the interpretation.
Set clear ownership: R&D builds PPWR-ready solutions, Development applies them in each launch, Regulatory and Legal advise on compliance.
Prioritize changes to existing packs by risk and business impact, with Supply Chain and Finance.
Technical Governance & Risk Ownership
Adapt assessments to project risk, with clear ownership, evidence and approval at each checkpoint.
Prepare evidence and recommendations for the Product Operations gates: Tech Assessment, Pilot Homologation, Go Prod.
Own packaging specifications and drive the adoption of the internal specification tool.
Never trade an unresolved critical risk for cost or timing; any skipped step goes to the Newness Committee.
Lead root cause and permanent fixes for design-origin issues; support Quality and the Crisis Cell on supply issues.
Respect Quality's independent co-signature of homologation and its ownership of release and CAPA.
Leadership and Coaching
Lead, coach and develop packaging developers, engineers and R&D specialists.
Recruit and grow sub-pole leads; build succession for critical technical roles.
Act as a role model for technical rigor and evidence-based decisions.
Cross-Functional Partnership & Strategic Exposure
Partner with Product Development, Marketing, Design, Quality, Procurement, Supply Chain, Regulatory, Commercial and Finance.
Bring feasibility, cost, timing and risk input at the brief, with the pack brief…