ofi North America (Olam Food Ingredients) · 18 hours ago
Director of Package Engineering
Chicago, IL
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$120K/yr - $180K/yr
10+ years expofi North America is a global leader in providing food and beverage ingredients and solutions. The Director of Package Engineering will oversee packaging development primarily for North America, managing a team of engineers and driving innovation in packaging while ensuring sustainability and collaboration across various teams.
Food & Beverages
Responsibilities
Setting strategic focus and direction for futures state packaging opportunities and linkage into innovation pipeline
Work influentially and collaboratively with cross-functional team across multiple levels of management to define packaging strategic direction. Work to remove barriers and elevate issues as needed to drive business agenda
Proactively challenge technical assumptions and current business processes to drive new package innovation
Ensure that packaging COE team utilizes scientific and engineering understanding to resolve issues and/or implement, direct and deploy packaging project activity to deliver against innovation development and commercialization agenda
Drive and direct key packaging supplier relationships on innovation opportunities
Oversee development of outside vendors and manufacturing facilities to enable innovation program success and implementation of sustainability objectives
Proactively seek out and understand packaging technologies that may have application to business
Develop and drive productivity improvement opportunities for packaging and innovation function
Understand relationship between package, product and process
Perform other duties as assigned
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Package Engineering or related field is required
Ten (10) + years of experience in packaging development and commercialization in CPG or product/package industry is required
Demonstrated successful leadership of technical staff
Strong leadership, influencing, people management and collaboration skills are required
Must have a depth of technical expertise on multiple packaging materials or packaging/processing systems
Ability to handle multiple moderate to high-risk projects concurrently using sound technical methodology with flawless execution is required
Ability to understand the cost and performance drivers of packaging materials is required
Understand material and format alternatives for a given application is required
Ability to function independently is required
Ability and willingness to travel up to 40% of the time is required
Benefits
Eligible for a performance-based bonus as provided by the plan terms and governing documents.
Employees (and their eligible dependents) covered through affordable access to healthcare, protection, and saving for the future.
We offer events, resources, and learning opportunities that inspire a physical, social, emotional, and financial wellbeing lifestyle for our employees and their families.
Company
ofi North America (Olam Food Ingredients)
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