Packaging Solution Manager

Cooper Consumer Health; Paris; Sur place; EUR 60 000 - 80 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Cooper Consumer Health is looking for a Packaging Solution Manager in Paris. This role is crucial for managing packaging compliance with EU regulations and overseeing innovative packaging projects.

The ideal candidate will have over 7 years of experience in the packaging field, proficiency in compliance and sustainability matters, and strong project management skills.

Join us to contribute to a healthier living initiative across Europe.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in pharma, consumer health, or FMCG packaging.
• Experience with end-to-end packaging change projects.
• Knowledge of EU sustainability regulations and EPR schemes.

Responsabilités

• Lead packaging compliance with PPWR and sustainability targets.
• Manage packaging projects from feasibility to launch.
• Coordinate EPR declarations across multiple markets.

Connaissances

Packaging change project management

Regulatory compliance knowledge

Cross-functional collaboration

Sustainability expertise

Fluency in English

Proficient in packaging materials

Project management skills

Formation

Master’s degree in packaging or related field

Description du poste

About the Company

Cooper Consumer Health is one of Europe’s leading consumer healthcare groups, delivering trusted OTC solutions that empower healthier living every day. Our portfolio includes powerhouse brands such as Armolipid, Saugella, Mag2, Valdispert, Oenobiol, Excilor, Vitascorbol, Lashilé, Betadine, and many more. Over the past 4 years, we’ve grown from €500 million to €1.2 billion in revenue, driven by both strategic acquisitions and strong organic performance. Today, our strong European footprint spans France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Belux, DACH and beyond and we’re just getting started. We are creating our legacy.

Why us?

If you’re looking to be part of a high‑performing, collaborative, and forward‑thinking team — where your ideas matter and your impact is real — join us on our mission to empower healthier living across Europe. At Cooper Consumer Health, we combine the agility of entrepreneurs with the scale and ambition of an established leader.

Values

• Just own it. We are entrepreneurs to make it happen.
• Choose to do it right: We partner with colleagues & customers while caring for consumer’s health.
• Stronger together: We COOPERate to thrive as ONE TEAM.
• Enjoy outperforming: We deliver value creation now and for the future with passion and can‑do attitude.

Role Overview

The Packaging Solution Manager is CCH’s internal reference for PPWR and packaging sustainability: building the compliance roadmap, setting internal standards and personally leading the projects that follow. Beyond compliance, the role bridges two worlds: helping Marketing leverage packaging as a consumer experience and shelf‑performance driver, while ensuring those ambitions hold up on the factory floor — at our sites and across our CMO network.

Key Responsibilities

1. PPWR Compliance & Packaging Sustainability — Primary Driver
   • Map the portfolio against PPWR and EU Green Deal targets; maintain a live compliance gap analysis by market, category, and packaging type.
   • Define CCH’s eco‑design guidelines and sustainability standards — the rules all future packaging changes must meet.
   • Own the PPWR action roadmap: prioritise projects, align stakeholders, and track delivery against regulatory milestones.
   • Evaluate sustainable alternatives (PCR resins, mono‑material blister, FSC board, weight reduction) and build business cases for adoption.
   • Embed sustainability criteria in the NPD and change management stage‑gate, with RA, Quality, Procurement, Production, Supply Chain, R&D, Sustainability and Marketing; monitor evolving EU packaging legislation and translate it into actionable steps.
2. Packaging Project Leadership — Leader & Doer
   • Own priority packaging projects end‑to‑end — feasibility, qualification, regulatory support, and launch — on existing and new products.
   • Maintain project plans, risk registers, and stage‑gate docs; track milestones in Wrike against portfolio commitments.
   • Coordinate cross‑functional workstreams across sites and CMOs to deliver on time and on spec.
   • Ground project decisions in manufacturing reality — what is achievable at site and CMO level.
3. Packaging Systems & EPR Declarations
   • Coordinate EPR declarations across all markets (France/Citeo, Germany/Grüner Punkt, Italy/CONAI, BeLux/Fost Plus, Netherlands) — data accuracy, filling deadlines, and cost tracking as schemes evolve.
   • Own the packaging data system (Packa or equivalent): drive adoption, maintain master data (materials, weights, recyclability), and ensure CMOs supply data on time.
   • Use EPR cost data to sharpen the PPWR roadmap: identify where eco‑modulation levers generate most value; share with Finance and Procurement.

Education

• Master’s degree or Engineering school (Bac+5) in packaging, materials science, industrial engineering, or a related field.

Required Experience & Skills

• 7+ years in pharma, consumer health, or FMCG packaging — combining factory/industrial experience with corporate or project management roles.
• End‑to‑end packaging change projects: design, specs, supplier qualification, regulatory filing, and launch.
• Proven ability to define packaging standards and specs applied consistently across a multi‑site or multi‑CMO organization.
• Working knowledge of PPWR, EU sustainability regulation, and EPR schemes — able to translate requirements into action.
• Experience in international companies, navigating cross‑functional environments (Marketing, RA, Quality).
• Proficient across packaging materials (glass, plastic, aluminium, board, laminate) and printing technologies.
• Strong Project Management skills (structured and autonomous, comfortable managing concurrent projects in a matrix environment).
• Fluent in English; French and/or Italian a strong plus.

Soft Skills & Ways of Working

• Autonomy & ownership
• Leader & doer
• Cross‑functional credibility
• Industrial pragmatism
• Clear communicator