Director, Packaging Materials Engineering Group

Job Description

Position Summary

The Director, Packaging Materials Engineering Group, is a senior strategic leader with deep expertise in the high-speed beverage packaging manufacturing space. This role carries responsibility for setting the vision, strategy, and governance of all packaging material structures and specifications for CBI’s Beer Division. This leader oversees a team of Managers, each accountable for specific packaging material categories, and ensures fully aligned, forward-looking material strategies across the organization.

The Director defines and drives the roadmap for the development, standardization, and continuous advancement of packaging material technologies, enabling both operational excellence and breakthrough product innovation. Critically, this role serves as a catalyst for innovation within the packaging materials domain, championing and advancing differentiated material solutions that elevate product quality, sustainability, and consumer experience. The Director actively identifies and leads the development of next-generation packaging materials that create competitive advantages, strengthen brand distinction, and expand CBI’s portfolio of differentiated SKUs in the marketplace.

Equally important, the Director leads cost innovation initiatives within packaging materials—strategically driving value creation through material optimization, design efficiency, and supplier collaboration—while maintaining uncompromising standards for quality and performance across the entire supply chain. The Director partners closely with executive leadership across Production, Quality Assurance, Engineering, and Commercial functions to ensure packaging materials not only meet but consistently exceed performance expectations from manufacturing through to the end consumer.

As a key architect of CBI’s material engineering capabilities, the Director, Packaging Materials Engineering Group, plays a pivotal role in building a high-performing organization and institutionalizing innovation, ensuring sustained leadership in how CBI’s products are packaged, protected, and experienced in the market.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team of Packaging Materials Engineering Managers, establishing a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous capability building across all material categories.
• Define and execute the packaging materials strategy, aligning long-term material roadmaps with business objectives, innovation priorities, and new product and packaging initiatives.
• Serve as a key strategic partner to Production, Quality Assurance, Engineering, R&D, and Commercial leadership, ensuring strong alignment and integration of packaging material strategies across the value chain.
• Champion the identification, development, and advancement of innovative packaging material concepts; build compelling business cases and partner with Commercial teams to translate ideas into differentiated market offerings.
• Own the development, validation, standardization, and governance of all packaging material structures and specifications to ensure best-in-class performance from production through consumer use.
• Establish and enforce robust governance frameworks for packaging materials, ensuring full compliance with regulatory requirements and adherence to internal standards for quality, safety, and sustainability.
• Drive cross-functional problem-solving to address material-related performance issues, utilizing data-driven root cause analysis and implementing sustainable corrective and preventive actions.
• Continuously assess emerging technologies, materials, and industry trends, integrating leading-edge solutions to strengthen CBI’s packaging innovation capabilities and competitive position.
• Build and lead strategic partnerships with material suppliers, equipment manufacturers, and industry stakeholders to accelerate innovation, enhance supply resilience, and unlock value.
• Lead enterprise cost innovation initiatives across packaging materials, driving material optimization, design efficiency, and total cost improvements while maintaining uncompromising standards for quality, performance, and…