Secondary Pack Manager
Lavazza Group
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Turin • Italy
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About the role
- Oversees the development and implementation of packaging concepts for new products and improvements to existing solutions, ensuring alignment with market trends, consumer behavior, and brand identity.
- Manages the budget for packaging development projects, ensuring resources are used efficiently and costs remain within approved limits.
- Collaborates with cross-functional teams (e.g., Marketing, Production) to align on packaging requirements and assess the technical and financial feasibility of proposed solutions.
- Oversees the creation and evaluation of packaging prototypes, ensuring they meet quality standards, functional requirements, and product protection needs, and implements adjustments when necessary.
- Manages the industrialization of packaging materials by translating concepts into technical specifications and ensuring the production process is feasible, scalable, and meets quality and efficiency targets.
- Builds and maintains strong relationships with packaging partners and suppliers, negotiating contracts, ensuring compliance with agreed terms, resolving issues, and driving performance improvements.
- Leads initiatives to enhance packaging materials (e.g., grammage, structure) and production processes (e.g., reducing scrap, increasing speed, lowering sealing temperatures), working with relevant teams to identify and resolve inefficiencies.
- Ensures all packaging development activities comply with applicable laws, regulations, and industry standards.
- Tracks KPIs and performance metrics related to packaging development, identifying improvement opportunities and preparing reports with recommendations for senior management.
- Stays up to date on industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies to identify opportunities for innovation or improvement in packaging, providing recommendations to senior management.
Requirements
- Previous experience in a similar role, preferably in the food & beverage industry
- Result oriented & Accountable
- Strong leadership skills
- Available to work in Turin (remote working is possible according to company policy)
- Fluent English
Benefits
- Comprehensive welfare package including short working week during summer months
- Hybrid working policy (10 days a month remote working)
- Company restaurant service
- Access to our corporate gym
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
packaging developmentbudget managementpackaging prototypestechnical specificationsindustrialization of packaging materialsKPI trackingperformance metricsquality standardsproduction processesemerging technologies
Soft Skills
result orientedaccountableleadershipcollaborationrelationship buildingnegotiationproblem solvingcommunicationinnovationadaptability