Senior Packaging Development Engineer

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tms unites technology, marketing, and sourcing to drive transformational change for the world’s leading brands. With 1,200+ employees across 26 countries, we offer an impressive range of solutions – from inspiration and innovation to category management and delivery.

Operating as a creative agency, a strategic consultancy, a sourcing business, and a technology provider, we engage with over 110 million customers every single day for our clients, including McDonald’s, T-Mobile, O2, Starbucks, and adidas.

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Provide functional (Project Management and Packaging Development) and strategic leadership in delivering packaging technology solutions to programs that add value to our clients. Business parameters include consumer satisfaction, operations improvement, sales growth, productivity/cost savings, environmental impact and profitability. Requires the ability to lead significant, multi-phase packaging development programs with a cross-functional teams. Programs include preliminary concept development, testing and validation thru national commercialization / execution.

Responsibilities include:

• Manage strategic and tactical programs including defining program objectives, action plans, target dates, and effective project/task prioritization. Assure supplier understanding of and delivery of key program deliverables on a timely basis. Execute testing, commercialization and implementation plans to ensure the product meets customer requirements.
• Provide packaging development support and expertise in-line with the needs and expectations identified by tms customers; solutions should include a balance of innovation, sustainability, risk management, benefit and cost.
• Interface with various customer departments, including operations, culinary, supply chain, and marketing, to identify customer needs and focus on speed-to-market solutions.
• Coordinate packaging testing, including those at supplier facilities and at customer facilities, such as test kitchens, in-store testing, and any outside 3rd party test labs, to validate the performance of the package against operational and consumer criteria.
• Provide customer's and tms program leaders with ongoing project communication, status updates, and support necessary to deliver against the customer's expectations.
• Interface directly with customer gatekeepers including formal presentations and positioning new product initiatives.
• Develop business case recommendations; present the recommendations to customer gatekeepers for concurrence/approvals.
• Fully leverage supplier capabilities and technical specialists that deliver results effectively and in a timely manner. Participate in supplier review meetings to provide feedback on supplier performance.
• Execute commercialization plans to ensure the product meets customer requirements and is transitioned to a continuous supply item.
• Develop and maintain packaging specifications within the designated specification system.
• Responsible for developing and maintaining knowledge of critical consumer and operational issues as well as key packaging technologies relevant to QSR packaging and specific customer business priorities.
• Responsible for recommending creative solutions with an appropriate balance of innovation, risk management, assured supply, speed and cost.
• Develop an understanding of relevant packaging issues and legislation, for use in the development process 

Requirements:

• 5+ years in packaging technology and/or business/packaging strategy development
• Strong technical competencies in packaging science including knowledge of substrates, structural design and manufacturing processes
• Experience with project management tasks and timeline development
• Experience in Foods FMCG or Packaging manufacturing industry preferred
• Knowledge of packaging forms, sustainable packaging and its conversion processes are good to haves
• Ability to connect abstract thoughts and ideas and materialize into an actionable long-term packaging strategy
• Experience working with multi-functional teams to formulate objectives and action plans
• Analytical approach to problem solving and decision making
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills
• High level of collaboration and teamwork