Responsibilities:
- Packaging lead for projects from end to end from design/inception to Closure including Qualification and validation.
- Manage project communications up, down and across the business as appropriate.
- Conduct root cause analysis, troubleshooting technical issues and performance challenges.
- Contribute, when necessary, to conduct lab analysis, production line trials and supplier testing on related projects. Generate and analyze performance-based data to drive technical and business recommendations.
- Liaise with project managers and project management leadership to establish resourcing needs and identify constraints in real time and to a 1-3 years outlook.
- Identify material requirements, draft specifications, and apply testing procedures to ensure projects deliver efficient cost, line performance, package quality, supply chain robustness, and fulfill the consumer need state.
- Ensure the output of the team driving the creation of packaging material specifications, associated drawings and packaging procedural specifications are to department/BU standards and expectations.
- Maintain expert level technical acumen of IFCN packaging formats and be capable of sharing/ teaching others with respect to technical information and technology.
- Champion and resource the identification of new packages, materials or technologies to develop them as enablers to drive cost savings, packaging value propositions for consumers and/or core renovation initiatives, while capable of gaining support to move through a projects life cycle.
- Work across all functions, including the balance of R&D, Operations, Quality, Engineering, Commercial, Procurement and Suppliers to support project launches as need.
- Partner and establish relationships with suppliers in an effort to leverage their technical and/or business capabilities to Reckitt’s advantage.
- Provide coaching and mentoring to a broad variety of packaging professionals with varying skill sets within the department and across the various Regions, as required.
- Understand the packaging value chain within Reckitt’s Nutrition BU and advocate for packaging and its significance to our customers, consumers and internal/external stakeholders.
Requirements:
- Degree in Packaging, Package Engineering, Packaging Science or adjacent technical field such as Engineering or Food Science required.
- Project Management experience is plus.
- Strong knowledge of science and technology discovery, design, and development processes, information systems.
- Working knowledge of networking with external resources outside of R&D.
- Basic understanding of how to translate consumer and customer insights into functional value that creates benefit.
- Able to embody design theories and output packaging solutions that can be commercialized.
- Strong background in packaging equipment systems and qualifications.
