R&D​/Innovation Management

Location: California

Accelerate the possible by joining a winning Amcor team that’s transforming the packaging industry and improving lives around the world.

At Amcor, we unpack possibility through our innovative and responsible packaging to provide solutions that benefit our customers, our people and our planet. More than 10,000 consumers worldwide encounter our products every second and rely on us for safe access to food, medicine and other goods. We value their trust by making safety our guiding principle. It’s our core value and integral to how we do business.

Beyond this core principle, our shared values and behaviors unite us as we work together to elevate customers, shape lives and protect the future. We champion our customers and help them succeed. We play to win – adapting quickly in an ever changing world – and make smart choices to safeguard our business, our communities and the people we serve for generations to come.

And we invest in our world-class team, empowering our colleagues to unpack their potential, because we believe when our people grow, so does our business.

Position

Job Title:

Product Development Engineer for Wine & Spirits BG and BU:
Amcor Flexibles Europe, Middle East & Africa (AFEMEA) Wine & Spirits Function:
Research & Development Line Manager’s

Job Title:

Product Development Manager
* Contract will be issued accordingly with legal requirements and legal entity of the hiring country JOB PURPOSE

Responsible for capsules product development and customer technical support of packaging for Wines and Spirits (closures, overcaps … etc.). The role requires close links with sales, customers, marketing, machine manufacturers, raw material suppliers, Amcor Flexibles plants and Field Technical Service team in order to generate and deliver sales or profit growth through new product market implementation and eventual trouble shooting and product improvements.

PRINCIPAL

ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Lead the New Product Development project from idea to launch (customer implementation), including design of technical solution, sampling and product qualifications, industrialization, project costs management and trial cost budget, in coordination with the Cross Functional team and plants.
• Lead the Improvement and Maintenance projects on existing products in coordination with Procurement, Marketing, Sales and AF plants.
• Support technically customers in coordination with FTS , Sales, Marketing and AF plants.
• Close cooperation with raw material suppliers and packaging machine manufacturers to minimize our products cost and maximize our products efficiency on customers lines
• Participate to R&D stage gate review with Amcor Capsules key stakeholders to review project status
• Report numbers/data related to the CIR (Credit Impôt Recherche) related to screwcaps projects
• Manage apprenticeship in his/her projects and daily task

MAJOR CHALLENGES & COMPLEXITIES

• Coordination and effective communication with several functions and levels in the organization (including sales teams in North America / California and East Coast and Plant GM’s)
• Innovation thinking to find always new and more effective solutions to drive for results
• High responsiveness, flexibility and availability to customer support (customer focus)
• Learning on fly on always new technical challenges and market application requirement evolution

Internal Relationships:

• Plant Technical team:
  Design to process, production, supply chain, quality, maintenance, engineering
• R&D (other Product Development teams)
• Field Technical Service
• Central Procurement

External Relationships:

• Customers
• Machine manufacturers

QUALIFICATIONS/REQUIREMENTS Formal Qualifications And Experience

• Must Have:
  University degree in related science, engineering or technical discipline (mechanical engineering or packaging engineering preferred)
• Must Have:
  Fluent in French and English and additional European languages are a plus
• Must Have:
  Project management process and tools
• Nice to Have:
  Technical knowledge on beverage materials, solutions of bottles closure and converting processes like deep drawing, printing and assembling processes as well as on the bottling line processes (filling, closing, labelling etc…).
• Nice to Have: design on…