Senior Packaging Engineer

Colgate-Palmolive; Topeka (KS); On-site; USD 88,000 - 132,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Hill's Pet Nutrition as a Packaging Development Lead, where you will contribute to creating innovative packaging solutions for leading pet food products. You will partner across teams to explore and develop new concepts while ensuring alignment with sustainability goals. If you have a passion for pet nutrition and packaging development, we would like to hear from you!

Benefits

Relocation Assistance

Equal Opportunity Employer

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in consumer goods or related industries.
• 2+ years experience in Packaging, focusing on development.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the development of new packaging workstreams.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to identify new packaging concepts.
• Scout external technical solutions from suppliers.
• Drive rapid prototyping and test-and-learns.

Skills

Collaboration

Project Management

Problem Solving

Education

BS in Packaging, Engineering, or related field

Masters Degree (preferred)

Job description

Pay $88800.00 - $131250.00 / year

Location Topeka/Kansas

Employment type Full-Time

Job Description

Req#: 153656

Relocation Assistance Offered Within Country
# 153656 - Topeka, Kansas, United States

Do you want to make a difference in the lives of people and their pets? What about having the opportunity to connect with others across the world, full of stimulating discussions, and making impactful contributions? If this is how you see your career, Hill’s is the place to be!

Hill’s Pet Nutrition is a multi billion dollar, global division of Colgate-Palmolive Company and the maker of Prescription Diet, Science Diet, and Healthy Advantage brand pet food. Our mission is to help enrich and lengthen the special relationships between people and their pets by providing the best leading-edge pet nutrition technology, products, and expertise to pet owners, veterinary professionals and other key pet professionals worldwide. Our company is a globally recognized Best Place to Work.

This role is responsible for leading the development of primary & secondary packaging concepts for new products and business models that are rooted in consumer insights. The ideal candidate will be a flexible collaborator with the ability to work across multiple project types and development stages from opportunity space identification, concepting, prototyping, through full commercialization. The ideal candidate should have a basic understanding of packaging sustainability concepts and general trade-offs both from a design & end of life perspective.

Core Responsibilities

• Partner very closely with cross-functional partners to identify opportunities to explore new Packaging concepts.

• Lead and manage the development of new packaging workstreams.

• Tenacious mindset to overcome project hurdles that deliver breakthrough innovation.

• Persuasive capability to identify and provide rationale for packaging investment needs that deliver value to the business.

• Scout external technical solutions from current and new suppliers.

• Understand rapid prototyping and have the ability to drive ‘test-and-learns.’

• Have a solid understanding of the technical elements of Packaging, but not be bound by the current state of the industry.

• Understand the financial components of Packaging and Hill’s Pet Nutrition cost structure to guide development.

Experience & Education:

• Required: BS in Packaging, Engineering, or a related field

• Required: 5+yrs experience in consumer goods or related industries

• Required: 2+yrs experience in Packaging, with a focus on development

• Preferred: Masters Degree in one of the disciplines above

Salary Range $88,800 - $131,250 USD


Equal Opportunity Employer
Colgate is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, marital status, veteran status (United States positions), or any other characteristic protected by law.

Are you interested in working for Hill's Pet Nutrition? You can apply online and attach all relevant documents such as a cover letter and resume or CV. Applications received by e-mail are not considered in the selection process. Become part of our team. We look forward to your application.

Work that matters, fueled by passion for pets! At Hill’s we have a purpose. Every day around the world, we transform the lives of millions of pet families through pioneering innovation, amazing nutrition, and the best and brightest people. Founded more than 75 years ago with an unwavering commitment to pet nutrition, Hills' mission is to help enrich and lengthen the special relationships between people and their pets.

HILL'S Prescription Diet therapeutic pet foods, HILL'S Science Diet and HILL'S Ideal Balance wellness pet foods are sold worldwide. Hill’s is a division of Colgate-Palmolive, a leading global consumer products company, tightly focused on Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care and Pet Nutrition, with sales of products in more than 200 countries. To learn more about Hill's and Colgate, please visit http://www.hillspet.com and http://www.colgatepalmolive.com , or find us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

Reasonable accommodation during the application process is available for persons with disabilities. Please contact [e-mail] with the subject "Accommodation Request" should you require accommodation.

About the company

Colgate-Palmolive Company is an American multinational consumer products company headquartered on Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It specializes in the production, distribution and provision of household, health care, personal care and veterinary products.

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