Packaging Development Americas Sr Manager

About Barilla

At Barilla, we believe that every great journey begins with passion and a bold vision. From our humble beginnings in 1877 in a small shop in Parma, Italy, we’ve blossomed into a global leader in the food industry, guided by our commitment to progress and excellence.

Today, Barilla is an international group present in more than 100 countries and we are proud to be recognized as the world’s top food company by reputation. With 22 beloved brands in our portfolio, we are world leader for pasta, the number one choice for ready-made sauces in Europe, leader for bakery products in Italy, and for crispbread across Scandinavia with Wasa.

Our success story is written by a passionate team of almost 9,000 dedicated employees across 30 plants and offices worldwide, all united by a shared mission to nourish the future with purpose and passion.

Are you ready to add your unique flavor to our journey?

To lead the development and implementation of Region Americas packaging (cross-categories), delivering the best packaging experience to our consumers, while achieving the optimal balance among superior quality, environmental responsibility, and operational efficiency inside the perimeter of competence.

This is a hybrid role based out of Northbrook, IL.

• Lead, mentor, motivate and direct his/her two reports fostering a collaborative and result-driven work environment.
• Define and lead the Americas packaging development strategies building the necessary technical and managerial know-how, optimizing workplace productivity, and promoting professional growth.
• Set clear objectives, delegate tasks while providing the needed managerial and technical support and regular feedback.
• Ensure effective communication and coordination within packaging team and other relevant departments, working in close collaboration with other leaders.

• Lead the development and industrialization of new packaging solutions (Consumer, Trade and Handling Units), based on existing and/or available technologies, for the Region Americas Masterplan projects, starting from consumers and customers’ needs understanding and applying a Shopper/ Consumer/ Customer’s Design driven approach.
• Guarantee that the developed packaging solutions ensure recipe’s protection all along the product’s shelf life, while matching logistic and distribution channels key requirements both for primary (shelf) and secondary (out of shelf) placement, enhancing packaging sustainability.
• Work in close partnership with project leaders and the heads of other relevant departments to ensure the projects are delivered according to the expected quality and industrial standards and in line with the defined costs and timing.

• Packaging ESG strategy: to influence the Region Americas in the implementation of the ESG strategy, ensuring long term goals achievement, always guaranteeing superior quality experience for our consumers and full alignment with the future business needs of the category.
• Designed-quality continuous improvement: based on deep consumer’s understanding, to define the strategy both to significantly improve the consumer experience and to give actual value to the business.
• Design to Value and PCM projects: define the strategy to make Region Americas packaging system more competitive, while ensuring to deliver to our consumers the best packaging experience.
• Supply security: partner with Purchasing and QFS directors in order to co-design an effective packaging purchasing strategy aiming to protect the Region Americas against business interruption and quality incidents risks.

• To set clear guidelines for the managed team and to design the needed processes in order to guarantee efficient and effective management of the Packaging technical specs, artworks and Packaging process standards.
• Packaging materials and drawings: to manage the Region Americas packaging specs system. Focus on properly agreeing with the involved suppliers all the technical aspects and perfectly communicate with internal stakeholders, according to the Company’s…