Senior Manager, Packaging

About Us

Shurtape Technologies is a leading manufacturer and marketer of adhesive tape, creating innovative solutions for a variety of industries. With facilities worldwide, including in the U.S., U.K., Germany, Mexico, and China, we offer well-known brands like Duck®, FrogTape®, Painter’s Mate®, Shurtape®, T-Rex®, Kip®, and Pro Tapes®.

We encourage curiosity and creativity, working together to solve challenges and innovate. Our commitment to health, safety, and environmental responsibility drives us to make a positive impact on our communities and the world.

Beyond tapes, Shurtape is committed to social and environmental responsibility, ensuring our manufacturing processes protect the communities in which we operate.

About the Role

The Senior Packaging Manager leads the development, execution, and continuous improvement of packaging solutions across assigned brands or product categories. This role provides technical and people leadership while partnering with Marketing, R&D, Supply Chain, Procurement, Quality, and Operations. The position owns packaging development from concept through commercialization, ensuring solutions meet performance, cost, speed-to-market, regulatory, and sustainability objectives.

The Senior Packaging Manager leads packaging testing, validation, specifications, and change-control activities and supports equipment, tooling, and line-modification projects. This role also drives productivity, value engineering, standardization, and sustainable packaging initiatives. The position typically manages packaging engineers and/or specialists and serves as the escalation point for complex packaging issues.

Responsibilities

• Lead packaging development for new product launches, line extensions, renovations, and productivity initiatives.
• Translate brand, marketing, and consumer requirements into technically viable packaging solutions.
• Ensure packaging meets functional requirements for product protection, shelf life, distribution, and line efficiency.
• Provide technical expertise across rigid, flexible, paperboard, label, and other applicable packaging formats.
• Oversee packaging testing, validation, qualification, specifications, standards, and change-control processes.
• Ensure compliance with applicable regulatory and food-contact requirements, including FDA, EU, and state regulations.
• Support capital projects involving new equipment, tooling, and line modifications.
• Deliver material, conversion, and logistics cost-reduction initiatives while balancing quality, risk, and time to market.
• Partner with Procurement and suppliers on value engineering, innovation, standardization, and platforming opportunities.
• Lead or support sustainability initiatives, including lightweighting, recyclability, post-consumer recycled content, and waste reduction.
• Manage, coach, and develop packaging engineers and technical staff; set objectives and provide regular feedback.
• Serve as the primary packaging partner for cross-functional teams and manage external suppliers, converters, OEMs, agencies, and testing laboratories.
• Support artwork and graphics execution and participate in stage-gate or innovation governance processes, as applicable.
• Maintain accurate technical documentation and BOM alignment and support packaging-related quality investigations and corrective actions.