Packaging Manager, World Wide Grocery Stores - Private Brands NA

Key job responsibilities

• E-commerce packaging optimization – deep diving packaging components with suppliers for continuous improvement to develop more robust solutions for packaging performance to our customers
• Driving packaging improvements with the business and across cross-functional stakeholders
• Commercialization tasks for new product launches, including dieline collection and review
• Working with third party co-packers to identify areas of opportunity for packaging consolidation or introducing innovative packaging solutions
• Performing lab testing with the ability to translate and articulate overall impact and opportunities that drive value for the business
• Analyzing customer needs and feedback to develop optimal product packaging, leveraging the unique opportunities being an online brand can provide
• Developing outer packaging and shippable containers appropriate for ecommerce – reducing shipping costs, ensuring undamaged product, and minimizing waste for consumers
• Continually finding ways to drive cost out of our packaging efforts
• Developing new packaging innovations that unlock new areas of opportunity for us
• Leading and coordinating design efforts between internal teams and outside vendors to develop optimal packaging solutions
• Creating conceptual drawings or working with vendors to create conceptual models for packaging designs
• Evaluating vendor prototypes and providing improvements/suggestions or alternative solutions
• Advising senior management on the latest packaging trends and optimal solutions
• Maintaining accurate specifications for packaging materials and procedures
• Providing technical support for root cause analysis of customer complaints related to packaging

Basic Qualifications

• Experience in product, program, or project management in leading cross-functional teams in delivery of major new products or services
• Knowledge of Microsoft Excel (macros, pivots, lookups) at an advanced level
• 3+ years of driving end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership experience
• Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to drive improvements
• 3+ Years of packaging development and project management experience
• In depth knowledge of packaging materials and testing procedures

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in stakeholder management, dealing with multiple stakeholders at varied levels of the organization
• Experience in project management including resource planning, managing schedules, reporting project status and prioritizing tasks
• 3+ years of process improvement procedures experience