This role focuses on identifying packaging development opportunities and designing innovative solutions that align with customer needs and market trends. You will play a key part in the New Product Development (NPD) process by gathering and analyzing requirements to ensure projects progress smoothly through each phase. The position requires close collaboration with cross-functional teams, including Customer Science, R&D, and Sales, to translate market insights into commercial packaging solutions. You will also monitor the commercialization and sales performance of newly developed products to ensure they transition successfully into the innovative product portfolio. You will stay updated on global packaging trends and technologies to identify future business opportunities. The role involves supporting product presentations and technical discussions with internal stakeholders and customers as needed. This is an opportunity to contribute to the development of cutting-edge packaging solutions in a dynamic and collaborative environment.

The Packaging Development Engineer identifies opportunities for new packaging products and services by analyzing customer needs, market trends, and business strategy. This role involves developing innovative packaging concepts and structural designs that align with customer and industry requirements while gathering and analyzing customer data to support development initiatives. The position coordinates the New Product Development (NPD) process to ensure projects advance through each phase and Product Step Meetings on schedule. The engineer collaborates closely with Customer Science, R&D, Sales, and cross-functional teams to convert market insights into commercial packaging solutions and monitors commercialization performance before transitioning products to the portfolio. The role requires staying current on global packaging trends and technologies to spot future opportunities and supporting product presentations and technical discussions with stakeholders and customers as needed.

Job Summary : Manage procurement processes of packaging materials to ensure required delivery while compliant to procurement policy. Priorties : Packaging strategy, material risk management, productivity/ cost mitigation, innovation, sustainability and cash flow improvement. It also includes procurement process and execution excellence, supplier relationship/ stakeholders/ and contract management. ## Job Responsibilities: * Develop packaging category expertise & knowledge and build market analysis of commodities at global/regional perspective. Drive, develop and share market intelligence/cost driver. * Deliver packaging strategy and define action plan/ project pipeline (next 3-4 years) for implementation * Ensure effective relationships with suppliers and ensure fundamentals in place (Legal, P2P process, GCS and quality/governance compliance), including manage suppliers risk to ensure business continuity and avoid potential crisis * Capture innovation through collaboration, create productivity/ sustainability initiatives in Packaging (commodities and Value engineer) and support innovation coming from outside to inside * Collaborate with global/ regional/ cross functions on NPD (Packaging part) and productivity projects * Support leader to do packaging AOP (budget) and manage packaging category spends & performance and suppliers on a day-to-day basis * Launch RFP; manage bidding process in coordination with key stakeholders within BU and, if required, global/ regional procurement * Select & Validate Suppliers/Optimize suppliers' portfolio according to strategy and negotiate contracts and supply agreements (when relevant) * Packaging Leader: * Leads packaging P2P team * Owns the P2P process * Ensures timely negotiated and update of packaging needs * Develop network with other business units, connect with external other industries * Support supplier performance evaluation * Well manage productivity and sustainability report including SAP update * Support the procurement organization in terms of digital transformation ## Skills and Experiance : * Degree Level in Business, Economics, Engineering, Packaging Technology or related field. * At least 5 years of related working experience with 2-3 years in supervisory Procurement roles * Outstanding Functional knowledge in different aspects of Procurement such as sourcing, category management processes * Possess good interaction with cross functional teams and supplier partnership mindset * Business acumen and have strong analytical skills * High responsibility and dedication and focus on quality and timely delivery * Agility and ability to perform multitask. Customer oriented * Good project management skill * Fluent in English. Good communication skills