Senior Packaging Specialist; TAG

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At Nestlé USA, we’re all working towards the same goal – to delight and deliver for our consumers. With a rich portfolio of beloved brands, including DiGiorno, Toll House, and Coffee mate, we are in 97% of U.S. households and have a unique opportunity – and responsibility – to be there for every moment in our consumers’ lives.

Joining Nestlé means becoming part of an inclusive workplace that inspires innovation, encourages strategic thinking and creativity, and celebrates your achievements. You are empowered to challenge the status quo, embrace risk-taking, and pioneer new ideas. Our supportive and collaborative environment encourages bold ambitions and continuous learning so that everyone can grow and thrive.

The Senior Packaging Specialist is a key role within Nestle’s Technical Applications Group (TAG) that serves as the technical lead on highly complex and strategic projects. They oversee and manage the entire lifecycle of packaging development, ensuring the solution is sustainable, effective, and compliant. The Senior Specialist collaborates with cross‑functional teams to drive initiatives from concept to launch on new product innovations and ongoing brand maintenance projects, partnering closely with Marketing to leverage consumer insights and serve as a subject‑matter expert to guarantee package solutions delight customers and consumers.

They also work closely with factories to share technical knowledge and support productivity and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement by coaching and fostering professional growth within the TAG organization.

• Execute Innovation and Renovation strategy for Nestle Nutrition division.
• Manage packaging development timelines, ensuring critical information is communicated to key stakeholders and all critical milestones are met.
• Liaise and leverage industry and global Nestle network to construct creative development activities (e.g., mockup, benchtop, pilot, distribution testing) to achieve project goals and meet consumer/customer expectations.
• Successfully introduce and support new product, packaging, and processes within factories and external manufacturers.
• Provide sustainability guidance on package structures to support global Nestle sustainability goals.
• Collaborate and influence internal and external project teams to develop, industrialize, and launch on a complex range of projects.
• Continuously improve and optimize current product, packaging, and processes within factories and external manufacturers according to local business needs and supply situation, or implementation of initiatives.
• Lead technical projects including technical assistance, sustainability, sourcing, quality improvements, compliance, and cost savings.
• Provide first line of support to factories by providing packaging knowledge transfer, guidance, and input to Nestle Operations for Standard Operating Procedures and eliminate root cause of assistance requests.
• Develop, define, and coach the competencies and training materials required for packaging mastership to enable manufacturing excellence.

• A BS or MS degree in Food Science, Food Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Packaging Science, Packaging Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
• Position requires approximately 25%–50% travel.

• Prefer minimum 5 years of product/packaging/process development experience in CPG or a related field of work in a factory environment or equivalent supply industry experience.
• Preferred product/packaging/process development experience in aseptic, hot fill, and retort technologies.

• Ability to work in a fast‑paced and high‑performing environment.
• Exceptional organizational skills and ability to manage multiple projects and assignments.
• Strong communication skills: interpersonal, presentation, oral, and written.
• Highly motivated, critical thinker, goal‑oriented, and easily adapts to change.

The Nestlé Companies are equal employment opportunity employers. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Prior to the next step in the recruiting process, we welcome you to inform us confidentially if you may require any special accommodations in order to participate fully in our recruitment experience.

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