R&D Packaging Leader

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About the role

Procter & Gambler is hiring for the role of R&D Packaging Leader!

The work

Responsibilities of the Candidate

• Develop deep consumer understanding to identify unmet needs and opportunities for packaging innovation.
• Partner with PR/PD, Brand, A&I, and Design teams to translate consumer insights into packaging requirements, design principles, and technical solutions.
• Lead packaging consumer learning plans, consumer testing, and evidence generation to support key business decisions.
• Drive packaging innovation from concept through commercialization, ensuring solutions are consumer-centric, technically robust, manufacturable, and scalable.
• Build organizational capability by integrating consumer understanding into packaging development and innovation processes.
• Lead IMP projects and packaging technical learning plans from idea generation through qualification and commercialization.
• Identify and implement packaging savings opportunities while maintaining product quality and consumer experience.
• Collaborate closely with P&E, Supply, Manufacturing, Quality, Purchasing, and Supply Chain teams to deliver business objectives.
• Identify and leverage supplier capabilities, external technologies, and emerging packaging trends to deliver consumer-centric, new packaging technologies, materials, solutions and competitive advantage.
• Lead technical problem-solving and drive resolution of packaging, quality, manufacturing, and supply challenges in collaboration with suppliers and multifunctional teams.

Who they want

Requirements

• Technical Problem Solving & Innovative Critical Thinking: Ability to guide technical project direction, critically analyze complex problems, and enable innovation to create new products, processes, or capabilities through packaging expertise.
• Strategic Leadership: Skill in developing and leading iterative learning plans, setting clear priorities for technical plans, and integrating diverse approaches like first-principle modeling and resource planning.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration & Influence: Capability to build effective relationships, collaborate across disciplines, and leverage internal/external resources.
• Business Acumen & Continuous Learning: Understanding of the business context, basic commercialization aspects, and a commitment to continuous learning on P&G systems and procedural elements.
• Technical Documentation: Skill in thoroughly documenting learnings and insights.