Pack Development Manager

Bel is a major player in the food industry, offering dairy, fruit, and plant-based portions of healthy eating, and is one of the world's leading branded cheese companies. Its portfolio of differentiated and internationally renowned products such as The Laughing Cow®, Kiri®, Babybel®, Boursin®, Nurishh®, Pom'Potes® or GoGo squeeZ®, as well as around thirty other local brands, enabled it to achieve a turnover of 3.6 billion euros in 2022.

Do you want to join a company with strong brands that places the consumer and responsibility at the heart of its decisions? Bel is made for you

Are you bold, pragmatic, and determined? Do you want to contribute to the transformation of an international food group? Then come and measure the impact of your talent and energy on the realization of an ambitious and sustainable business project

**#IWorkForAllForGood**

**Mission**: Renovating our packaging to increase Performance from a cost, regulatory, CSR & Consumer/customer perspective, from their conception to their industrialization, for the Group worldwide

**Main Responsibilities**:
**Regular activities**:

- Working in a project mode and in a multidisciplinary working group in which the Performance manager is autonomous and project leader.
- Identify, guide, prioritize and transform your specific pack. material to ensure the most cost-efficient solution maintaining CSR & regulatory engagement & Consumer/Customer value.
- Ensure the efficient project management (including, Risk analysis, Planning, Pack cost, contribution to budget
- OPEX & CAPEX- and IP protection)
- Perform Eco-design in line with the guidelines of the BEL Group.
- Organize and conduct field trials with the support of the Plant techno (in France, but also abroad).
- Define appropriate tests and control methods to test the technical solutions devised.
- Collaborate with suppliers and procurement to establish a continuous improvement approach for your project in terms of material performance, corporate social responsibility (CSR), and cost.
- Stay current with market trends and technological advancements in the field of your specific packaging
- Collaborate with Portfolio manager to ensure appropriate resource & time allocation support for our projects.
- Be the guide & advisor for the team on your specific material.

**Management / Coordination activities if any**
- Ensure technical coaching within project team to develop junior
- Technical and economical reliability of the packaging solutions proposed
- Compliance with project milestones (OTIF) and the objectives of acceleration of the TTM and CSR policy.

**Key performance indicators and impact on results (qualitative and quantitative)**
- Project TTM + gate project management (Explo-Dev-Imple-Launch)
- Value analysis delivered for the business.

**Examples of issues encountered by the job holder**
- Meeting both industrial technical requirements and user needs, while following the Group’s CSR policy.

**Qualification and Experience**

**Required diploma and/or level of professional experience**:

- Packaging Engineer
- Minimum 5 years of experiences in packaging development.
- Food industry background
- Development project tracking record

**Required skills business / technical knowhow to perform in the job**:

- Technical packaging (material & equipment) knowledge carboard box, aluminum, plastics
- Eco-Conception Training
- Ability to drive transformation, reduction of TTM, breakthrough innovation and collaboration in links with new business model and partners. Connected to external ecosystem and partnership environment
- Excellent interpersonal skills to manage many multi-zone, multi-activity, internal/external exchanges
- Flexibility and adaptability to different cultures, work styles, etc.
- Analytical and synthetic spirit
- Business understanding (P&L, end to end innovation process)

**Required specific skills (foreign languages, software,)**
- Ability to prioritize and manage team focus on the right topics
- Project management skills
- French and English currents.
- Flexible / adaptable to be able to work in multicultural environment
- Good knowledge of statistics
- Creativity and ideation
- Mechanical/engineering knowledge is a plus

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