Packaging Specialist

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At the heart of our culture are four core values that guide our actions and define how we work together. We Take Ownership by staying committed from start to finish, making thoughtful decisions, and focusing our efforts on initiatives that drive growth, efficiency, and sustainability. We Do What Is Right by prioritizing transparency, setting clear roles and responsibilities, and speaking up when something doesn’t align with our values.

We Seek to Improve through continuous innovation, embracing feedback, and learning from both our successes and setbacks. And We Are Better Together by making decisions that benefit the whole organization, fostering inclusion through diverse perspectives, and treating everyone with fairness and respect. These values are not just ideals—they are the behaviors we live by every day.

Serves as the technical packaging lead on project teams to deliver “Innovation & Renovation”, “Buy Better”, “Factory support”, “Quality improvement” and “Alternative supply” projects.

Supports the factories to optimize filling and packaging line performance and with packaging quality issues. Develops and launches packaging solutions in line with Marketing, or factory improvement initiatives while ensuring packaging safety, quality, functionality and sustainability objectives are being met in a cost‑efficient manner.

Collaborates internally and externally to build relationships in order to continuously improve technical skills and personal development.

• Lead and develop the Packaging team, support the packaging development strategy and the annual new product development plan.
• Ensure that all people management activities and requirements are covered effectively, efficiently and on time.
• Work hand in hand with the Quality and Operational teams to identify and prevent packaging defects. Work directly with packaging vendors to resolve quality defects.
• Work with operations and engineering to optimize the packaging performance on packaging equipment.
• Manages and supports the packaging development function from ideation through to Industrialization:
• Identifies the optimal packaging material and die‑lines for new ice cream products. Works with vendors to ensure correct specifications are captured and agreed upon and that all materials comply with food safety and internal company quality standards.
• Perform basic packaging quality checks to ensure the structural integrity of our packages and that they comply with the agreed specifications.
• Ensuring that any new packaging is tested and trialed on the factory and palletization equipment in the development stage and that Operations and Marketing have signed off on the final design.
• Design palletization patterns to optimize the transportation costs while ensuring pallet stability and quality. Perform and document the results of pallet transportation tests.
• Ensure that the artwork development process has the right quality of technical information (eg. technical packaging drawings, placement of 2D codes and “Best Before” date boxes, orientation, no-print areas etc.) to allow the creative services team to develop the graphics. Ensure that technical packaging data inputs are provided in a timely manner to avoid delays in the development timeline.
• Contribute to developing the Market Packaging sourcing and ESG strategy translating it into a local packaging project pipeline.
• Obtain a good understanding of DGIC manufacturing capabilities and packaging equipment.
• Develop strategic relationships with key packaging suppliers to define with Procurement the optimal sourcing strategy and to partner with companies offering innovations on new and relevant sustainable packaging materials.
• Ensure project management tools are used for managing timelines, project teams and key stakeholders to ensure…