Global Grants & Manager

Remember the last time you opened a bottle of bourbon, a cold beer after a hard day’s work or a bottle of sparkling mineral water to quench your thirst? Well, it was probably made by us, we are O-I Glass and we love that we make more glass containers than anyone in the world. O-I has more than a century of experience crafting pure, sustainable, brand-building glass packaging for many of the world’s best-known food and beverage brands.

We are proud to provide high quality glass packaging for beer, wine, spirits, food, non-alcoholic beverages, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals.

With 25,000 + employees and an unparalleled footprint spanning 64 plants in 18 countries, O-I is a truly global maker of glass packaging. From engineering and manufacturing to brand development, design and innovation, we are dedicated to providing unique solutions to exceed our customers’ expectations and fuel consumers’ desire for glass.

The Grants & Incentives Manager will lead the development, execution, governance, and compliance of the company’s global grants and incentives process. This role partners with key stakeholders globally to identify and evaluate funding opportunities, recommends strategies that reduce investment and operating costs, leads applications and negotiations, and oversees the ongoing realization and compliance of awarded benefits.

Responsibilities:

• Proactively identify, research, interpret, and evaluate grants, incentives, tax credits, loans, and other funding opportunities relevant to company operations and investments globally.
• Monitor legislative, regulatory, and economic development trends; assess their business implications; and advise leaders on emerging opportunities, requirements, and risks.
• Serve as the company’s grants and incentives subject-matter expert, providing recommendations on eligibility, funding structures, application strategies, compliance obligations, and benefit realization.
• Lead assigned incentive opportunities from intake through award and ongoing compliance, establishing project plans, priorities, decision points, documentation standards, timelines, and stakeholder accountability; coordinate recurring project meetings with internal teams and external consultants to monitor progress, resolve issues, and ensure required activities and deliverables are completed.
• Lead the preparation and submission of incentive applications, business cases, financial analyses, agreements, reporting packages, and compliance documentation by directing and validating input from internal teams and external advisors.
• Participate in negotiations and strategic discussions with public authorities, economic development agencies, and other external partners, coordinating with Legal, Tax, Treasury, Finance, and Government Affairs as appropriate.
• Oversee cross-functional and cross-regional work streams involving Finance, Operations, Engineering, HR, Treasury, Legal, Tax, Accounting, Corporate Development, and other stakeholders to ensure timely decisions and delivery.
• Establish and maintain global process governance, including opportunity intake, prioritization, approvals, controls, documentation, reporting cadence, escalation protocols, and audit readiness.
• Own the grants and incentives portfolio, databases, reporting calendars, and performance metrics, including opportunity pipeline, application status, anticipated and realized benefits, deadlines, compliance status, and key risks.
• Monitor the financial performance and return on investment of the portfolio; provide forecasts, insights, and recommendations to leadership; and elevate material delivery, compliance, or financial risks.
• Ensure periodic and ongoing compliance for awarded incentives, including required submissions, supporting…