Packaging Engineer Manager

Job Description :

About us With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, Diageo is home to some of the world’s most iconic drinks. From Johnnie Walker and Guinness to Tanqueray, Smirnoff and Don Julio, we craft brands chosen for life’s moments — from everyday connections to landmark celebrations. Bring your talent, curiosity and ambition, and strive for your personal best alongside people who challenge, support and learn from each other.

Together, as one outstanding team, we keep learning, improving and raising the bar for our brands, our business and each other. Join us and play your part in making life’s moments mean a little more. About the Function Supply Chain & Manufacturing is where our brands are made, moved and delivered to the world. With over half of our people working across more than 100 sites, this is a complex, large-scale operation that brings together production, logistics, engineering and supplier partnerships.

It’s fast-paced and hands-on, with teams working together to ensure quality, efficiency and sustainability at every stage. From sourcing ingredients to getting products into customers’ hands, you’ll play a role in delivering the brands people know and love. About this role

We're crafting iconic drinks chosen for life's moments, and this role sits at the center of how we deliver on that ambition, from innovation to renovation and supply optimization. Getting it right grows our brands and strengthens the business behind every glass. You'll partner with our Global Category Teams across a genuinely global business, and act as the voice of Supply within the team, helping us evaluate and prioritize the programs that matter most.

We invest in your growth here, with structured coaching and a clear path to develop your career.

Job Summary:

Lead packaging technical development and commercialization for strategic, complex and high-priority innovation, renovation and supply optimization projects, ensuring packaging solutions are robust, manufacturable, scalable and delivered right first time Serve as a senior technical leader within Packaging, translating project and brand requirements into packaging solutions and providing technical direction throughout the commercialization lifecycle

Coach and develop early-career Packaging Engineers, building their technical capability, commercialization expertise and confidence to independently lead packaging work streams

Partner cross-functionally with Commercialization, Innovation/R&D, Procurement, Quality, Manufacturing, Brand and external suppliers to identify technical requirements, resolve packaging challenges and enable successful commercialization

Ensure appropriate technical rigor and documentation throughout commercialization governance, including specifications, testing, trials, risk assessments and technical approvals

Drive continuous improvement across Packaging Commercialization, strengthening technical standards, ways of working and organizational capability while improving speed to market and first-time-right execution

Top Accountabilities:

Own packaging technical delivery for assigned strategic and complex projects from concept through commercialization and post-launch, ensuring solutions meet quality, performance, cost, manufacturing and consumer requirements

Provide technical leadership in the development, qualification and commercialization of primary, secondary and tertiary packaging components, partnering with Packaging subject matter experts where deeper category expertise is required

Lead packaging risk identification and technical problem-solving, proactively developing mitigation plans and escalating risks that could impact project timing, quality, cost or supply continuity

Plan and execute packaging development…