Packaging Design Manager

Job Responsibilities

Lead Packaging Innovation
Drive the development of innovative packaging concepts for global and regional product launches.
Shape packaging design direction from early-stage ideation through final commercialization.
Translate consumer insights, market trends, and brand strategy into impactful packaging solutions.

Create packaging experiences that strengthen brand equity, improve usability, and delight consumers.
Develop visually compelling and technically robust packaging systems across a variety of formats and materials.
Promote design thinking and human-centered design throughout the innovation process.

Partner Across the Business
Collaborate closely with Brand, R&D, Supply Chain, Procurement, Quality, Planning, and external partners.
Influence decision-making by balancing consumer needs, sustainability goals, commercial priorities, and manufacturing requirements.
Build strong partnerships with design agencies, component suppliers, and technology providers to unlock new capabilities.

Deliver Scalable Solutions
Ensure packaging designs are optimized for manufacturing, performance, quality, and cost.
Incorporate Design for Manufacturing (DFM) principles early in development.
Support seamless scale-up and implementation across Unilever's global manufacturing network.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of packaging design, industrial design, or packaging engineering experience within consumer goods, personal care, beauty, food, beverage, or related industries.
• Experience leading packaging development projects from concept through launch.
• Proven ability to manage multiple complex projects in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams and external partners to deliver innovation at scale.

Experience Required

• Strong Knowledge Of 3D CAD design tools (Siemens NX preferred)
• KeyShot, Adobe Creative Suite, and rapid prototyping technologies
• Packaging materials, including HDPE, PET, PP, and recycled materials
• Blow molding, injection molding, ISBM, extrusion, and other packaging manufacturing processes
• Closures, pumps, dispensing systems, tubes, rigid packaging, and complex assemblies
• Packaging decoration technologies and emerging packaging innovations

Leadership Attributes

• Combines creativity with strong engineering and problem-solving skills
• Passionate about packaging innovation and consumer-centered design
• Thrives in highly collaborative, global environments
• Can influence without authority and build strong partnerships across disciplines
• Bridges an entrepreneurial mindset and a bias for action
• Leads with curiosity, resilience, and a commitment to excellence