Key Responsibilities:
• Delivering packaging initiatives to customers and consumers in collaboration with partner functions.
• Working with Regional Commercial, Supply Chain and Purchasing teams to ensure goals are being met.
• Provide resources to ensure site based operations are maintained to standard
• Setting the direction for the Category Commercialisation Team.
• Ensure efficient commercialisation of new packs and pack modifications, working with the Supply Chain teams on implementation activities
• Provide effective scale-up of pack developments from prototype to scale manufacture and, on to factory solutions.
• Understand and communicates implications of manufacturing conditions on pack performance and line efficiency
• Be accountable for factory support ensuring site-based packaging operations are run to standards and supplier quality programs are in place to manage specifications
Candidate Requirements:
• Strong leadership capabilities.
• Commercial awareness to enable framing of key projects.
• Excellent communication skills for Commercial and Technical audiences
• Related experience in package development and commercialisation
• A first degree or equivalent in packaging, science or engineering (or relevant experience)
• A demonstrated track record in successful new pack introduction into a manufacturing environment
• A demonstrated deep technical understanding of the specific constraints associated with the packaging of food and beverage products
• Effective influencing skills and can work across boundaries and collaborate with others to deliver results
• Experience operating across functional discussions with multiple business units at a high level.
• Effective coaching and people management skills.
