CoE Industrial Packaging Manager
Givaudan · Avignon
Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with kindness and humility, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions that make people look and feel good. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 17,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with. Dive into varied, flexible, and stimulating environments. Meet empowered professionals to partner with, befriend, and stretch your skills alongside. Every day, your energy, your creativity, and your determination will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.
You will ensure that Givaudan's packaging solutions are compliant, technically safe, scalable, and aligned with business, regulatory, quality, sustainability, and customer requirements. You will work between multiple teams, including Packaging Engineering, Regulatory, Quality, EHS, Sustainability, Procurement, Supply Chain, Customer Care, and Commercial. You will also collaborate with suppliers to support packaging governance, technical decision-making, packaging transitions, customer communications, and packaging sustainability projects.
You will report to the Industrial Packaging Strategic Lead.
In This Exciting Role, You Will:
Packaging Compliance Hub Leadership
Lead the Packaging Compliance Hub, ensuring regulatory monitoring, impact assessments, governance, documentation, and global alignment.
Translate packaging regulations into applicable technical and business measures.
Centralize and manage the digitalization of the Packaging Passport framework.
Drive packaging sustainability initiatives, focusing on circularity, sustainable material strategies, and compliance with evolving environmental regulations.
Global Packaging Engineering Support
Provide technical packaging expertise across design, material selection, supplier qualification, validation, standardization, and packaging performance.
Support sustainable packaging development by promoting packaging circularity principles, recyclability, material optimization, and sustainability best practices.
Coordinate updates to the global packaging database.
Customer Query Management
Address customer packaging-related queries, technical information, regulatory questions, plastic circularity and packaging sustainability queries.
Improve customer interaction processes through digitalization.
Change & Supplier Transition Support
Assist regional packaging partners in managing packaging introduction and transition processes to ensure business continuity and compliance excellence.
Identify, share, and train teams on best practices, sustainable packaging approaches, and technical packaging guidelines.
Your Professional Profile Includes:
A Bachelor's degree in Industrial Packaging
Fluent in English (spoken and written)
Minimum of 3 years of experience in a global industrial business environment
Strong technical knowledge related to packaging
Experience with packaging-related regulations (Quality, Sustainability, EHS)
Knowledge of packaging sustainability, plastic circularity, and sustainable packaging regulations
Experience in project and change management
Continuous improvement mindset
Our Benefits:
- Pension support
- Yearly bonus payment
- Learning and development programs
- Flexible working arrangements and wellbeing initiatives
- Access to exclusive perfumes and other employee discounts
At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.
We value the different perspectives that come from diverse cultures, backgrounds, and experiences.
Everyone — regardless of race, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, culture, religion, or any personal circumstances — is warmly welcomed at Givaudan, a place where we all love to be and grow.
Every essence of you enriches our world. Join us in making a difference together.