CDI - Responsable Développement Packaging et Industrialisation (F/H/X)

SEPHORA; Neuilly-sur-Seine; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Sephora is seeking a Senior Packaging Engineer to lead the development and qualification of packaging projects within the beauty industry. You will manage end-to-end packaging initiatives from design inception with Marketing to supplier qualifications, ensuring timelines, quality, and cost targets are met.

The role requires a minimum of 10 years in technical packaging, a Scientific Bachelor's degree, and strong leadership and communication skills in English.

Qualifications

• Experience in packaging within the beauty industry, minimum 10 years.
• Scientific Bachelor's degree in packaging, chemistry, mechanical engineering, or related field.
• Ability to operate in a dynamic, fast-moving project pipeline.
• Professional fluency in English.
• Willingness to travel as needed.

Responsibilities

• Develop and qualify a portfolio of packaging projects from concept to supplier validation.
• Lead cross-functional teams across Marketing, Formula Development, and Purchasing.
• Ensure on-time launches with quality, cost, and capacity targets.
• Perform risk assessments and testing at contract manufacturers.
• Lead and mentor a team of packaging engineers.

Skills

Packaging engineering

Project management

Cross-functional leadership

Supplier collaboration

Agile environment

Education

Scientific Bachelor's

Job description

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At Sephora, beauty is about feeling seen, valued, and empowered, individually and collectively. It is connecting deeply with others, celebrating diversity and inclusivity, unlocking your potential and making a difference every day. Together, we belong to something beautiful.

Since its inception in 1969 in Limoges, France, and as part of the LVMH Group since 1997, Sephora has been disrupting the prestige beauty retail industry. Today, Sephora continues to break with convention to drive its mission: champion a world of inspiration and inclusion where everyone can celebrate their beauty.

At Sephora Collection, Sephora's own brand, we bring together talent and expertise to design on-trend, reliable, effective and mindful products. Our mission: to offer everyone the opportunity to love and celebrate their unique beauty. Sephora Collection has 250 highly engaged employees in France, and a global impact that extends from Europe to the Middle East and right across the Americas and Asia. We are an authentic brand - free, vibrant, and always on the move. At Sephora Collection, every day is an invitation to learn, discover yourself and the endless possibilities of the world of beauty.

You will excel and enjoy this position if you are ready to actively handle the following missions:

You will concurrently execute the development and the qualification of a portfolio of several projects varying from simple to very complex.

This will involve identifying, developing, and implementing solutions for primary and secondary packaging, from early inception (design in partnership with Marketing and Creative) through qualifications at suppliers and contract manufacturers.

The projects success criteria include launch delivery on-time, with uncompromised quality, at the right capacity and at the right cost.

In this key role you will leverage your technical expertise, leadership and project management skills.

A high level of collaboration is needed to partner with cross functional teams, from internal (Marketing, Creative Team, Formula Development, Purchasing, Project Management, Supply Chain, Finance, Regulatory) to external (Packaging Suppliers, Contract Manufacturers).

You will actively build strong organizational capabilities, leading a team of several packaging engineers.

You will be responsible for:

• Collaborating with Marketing and Formula Development teams on new briefs that are technically and financially viable. Advise creative team on best way to achieve requested designs.
• Working closely with Purchasing to answer Marketing briefs while respecting cost and gross margin targets.
• Conducting and communicating risk assessment studies centered around packaging and industrialization.
• Conducting all necessary testing to validate success criteria, including line trial at contract manufacturers facilities.
• Validating homologation plans for both packaging and finished goods.
• Responsible for components and finished goods specifications.
• Validating new component tooling.
• Conducting aesthetic development (color matching, decoration).
• Reviewing/Approving Artwork files.
• Attending first production, when possible, to ensure components and finished goods are of the correct quality expectations.
• Approving quality standards and range boards for Components and Finished Goods.
• Validating tertiary packaging for finished goods and palletization plans.
• Working on optimization of existing components to improve quality, reduce cost and improve sustainability.
• Overall, following up on timelines and reporting regularly on status of development issues to the immediate supervisor and to the project managers. Identifying mitigations plans and ensuring their deployment.
• Supporting sustainability programs specifically applied to packaging.

• Experience working in the technical packaging role, in the Beauty industry, minimum 10 years.
• Academic qualifications: Scientific Bachelors (packaging, chemistry, mechanical engineering, or other relevant discipline).
• Operate with discipline in a dynamic and fast-moving project pipeline. High sense of accountability and ownership focused on priorities.
• Willingness to work in agile, entrepreneurial, hands‑on type environment. Ability to adapt to change.
• Problem-solving skills. Ability to identify smart solutions with the right level of pragmatism.
• Strong interpersonal communication and presentation skills for verbal and written communication of ideas, technical rationales, risks, issues, and recommendations.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced organization. Able to travel when required.
• Professional fluency in English.

Here, you will find:

• Community, in which authenticity is embraced, and the strength of our differences fuels our collective spirit.
• Culture of empowerment, learning & growth, that offers you the tools, space and opportunity to learn, innovate and lead.
• Work that brings fulfillment. From delighting clients every day, to inspiring our industry at large, every action makes a difference.

Join us and belong to something beautiful.

At Sephora, we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating and fostering an inclusive environment for everyone.