Director, Product & Packaging Scale-Up

Danone; Louisville (CO); Hybrid; USD 149,000 - 214,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance-based bonus

Medical, Dental, Vision

401(k) Plan

Tuition Reimbursement

Flexible Time Off

Paid Parental Leave

Hybrid work environment

Job summary

Danone North America is seeking a Director of Product & Package Scale-Up who co-leads end-to-end scale-up of innovation, renovation, and productivity across dairy, beverages, and other platforms. You will guide a senior technical team and partner with Packaging, Operations, Quality, Engineering, and Supply Chain to ensure manufacturability, validation, and fast commercialization.

This hybrid role anchors scale-up governance, sets standards, and drives risk mitigation and trial design.

Qualifications

• 10-15+ years of progressive experience in packaging, product development, process engineering, scale-up, commercialization, or manufacturing within food, beverage, CPG, or related process industries.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex cross-functional technical programs involving R&I, Packaging, Marketing, Operations, Engineering, Procurement, Quality, Regulatory, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and external partners.
• Strong packaging technical depth, including materials, package functionality, validation, manufacturability, sustainability, supplier engagement, specifications, and launch execution.
• Strong understanding of product and process scale-up, including pilot and plant trials, unit operations, line performance, quality systems, process capability, and technical troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

• Lead R&I scale-up execution for innovation and renovation projects, ensuring product, packaging, and process solutions are robust, scalable, safe, regulatory compliant, and consumer preferred.
• Co-lead technical commercialization with R&I category leaders and cross-functional partners for medium to high complexity/impact projects across Danone categories and manufacturing sites.
• Drive first-time-right execution through early technical risk assessment, design-to-scale thinking, clear success criteria, robust trial planning, and disciplined validation.
• Ensure projects are designed for manufacturability by integrating product attributes, packaging performance, processing conditions, equipment capability, quality requirements, and plant realities before scale-up.

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Packaging Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Food Science, Food Engineering, Materials Science, or related technical field

Job description

Danone North America is seeking a Director of Product & Package Scale-Up who co-leads end-to-end scale-up of innovation, renovation, and productivity across dairy, beverages, and other platforms. You will guide a senior technical team and partner with Packaging, Operations, Quality, Engineering, and Supply Chain to ensure manufacturability, validation, and fast commercialization.

This hybrid role anchors scale-up governance, sets standards, and drives risk mitigation and trial design.