• Lead packaging initiatives focused on cost savings, efficiency, and smooth production execution across snacks and beverage platforms • Support flexible, rigid, and corrugated packaging systems • Execute packaging line trials • Manage SKU and line transfers from internal plants to co-manufacturers • Partner closely with Operations, Supply Chain, Procurement, Quality, and packaging suppliers to ensure packaging systems meet quality, food safety, and cost targets while maintaining accurate specifications and documentation • Lead complex projects or assignments within large projects with minimal supervision • Lead packaging qualification activities by generating packaging protocols, overseeing test execution, analyzing test data, and authoring qualification reports • Provide technical expertise for packaging risk assessments and failure mode/root cause analyses • Lead the improvement and standardization of packaging on existing products with focus on performance and cost effectiveness • Plan and execute a design of experiments • Perform statistical analysis on data generated from experiments and write final reports • Initiate and coordinate packaging line trials including planning, conducting and post-trial activities • Partner with purchasing and production departments to determine costs and feasibility of producing proposed packaging • Lead internal and external relationships to effectively influence and gain support for initiatives • Able to identify areas of cost savings or improvements to new and on market products