Packaging and Sourcing Manager

Description

The Manager, Packaging Programs & Sourcing Execution owns end-to-end execution for a portfolio of packaging, pallet, display, and customer-presentation programs from confirmed requirements through production release. This hands-on working manager establishes priorities and readiness plans, coordinates internal and external partners, translates approved customer and compliance requirements into executable specifications, directly creates and maintains packaging raw material codes and subassemblies, and manages supplier and factory follow-through.

The role applies judgment to balance customer commitments, production timing, compliance, cost, and business risk while driving accountability, timely decisions, and appropriate escalation.

• 1. Owns a portfolio of pallet, packaging, display, and customer-presentation programs from confirmed requirements through production release, establishing priorities, workplans, owners, and critical milestones across concurrent initiatives.
• 3. Works directly with third-party domestic packaging and pallet suppliers to coordinate physical sample pallet builds, request and compare quotations, evaluate design and pack-out alternatives, and validate pallet dimensions, height, capacity, cube, and case or pair counts. Partner with the supplier and Logistics to develop and confirm container and truck loading plans.
• 3. Work directly with third-party domestic packaging and pallet suppliers to coordinate physical sample pallet builds, request and compare quotations, evaluate design and pack-out alternatives, and validate pallet dimensions, height, capacity, cube, and case or pair counts. Partner with the supplier and Logistics to develop and confirm container and truck loading plans.
• 4. Creates and maintains a centralized pallet-program library for all approved programs across the business, including sample-build photographs and diagrams, pallet dimensions and height, capacity and pack-out assumptions, case or pair counts, supplier quotations, approved configurations, and related container and truck loading plans.
• 5. Serves as the primary Sourcing lead and cross-functional point of accountability for packaging and pallet readiness, driving alignment among Brand & Creative, Marketing, Sales / Account Support, Product Management, Customer Compliance, Planning, Logistics, the China sourcing office, factories, and packaging suppliers.
• 6. Translates approved customer, retailer, brand, and compliance requirements into production-ready packaging and pallet specifications, system setup, materials, labeling, carton markings, pallet labels, pack-out instructions, build diagrams, and supplier or factory direction.
• 7. Directly creates, revises, and maintains packaging raw material codes, bills of material or subassemblies, item setup, specifications, and related data in applicable business systems, while setting standards for accuracy, governance, and version control.
• 8. Interprets customer and retailer compliance guides for on-product labels, polybag labels, UPC and barcode placement, country-of-origin and warning statements, case labels, carton markings, pallet labels, and other identification or logistics requirements; lead clarification and validate execution before release.
• 9. Leads change control when packaging, assortment