Saint-Sulpice, Vaud, Switzerland
Specialties: Innovation, Package Development, Project Management, Consumer Understanding, Internal consultant
- Lead and oversee packaging development projects, coordinating with cross-functional teams, suppliers, and stakeholders to ensure successful execution. - Collaborate with key stakeholder to define the packaging brief and product needs. - Demonstrate technical expertise and leadership in the selection, development, and validation of the optimal packaging system for new and existing products considering inclusive design, consumer delight, packaging sustainability goals, product/packaging interaction and overall feasibility. - Translate consumer learnings into concrete solutions by scouting for ideas and driving those for the brand through the stage gate process. - Ensure all deliverables (internal and regulatory framework) are met during the development to reach a smooth handover to Supply Chain at validation. - Be brand savvy and consumer obsessed in leveraging new packaging technologies to elevate user experience through innovative and sustainable packaging solutions.
- Temporary position responsible for overseeing package development activities within the Global Supply Chain. - Responsible for managing the development, testing and implementation of new packaging materials, designs and equipment, working extensively with global manufacturing sites while providing technical support to our External Manufacturing and Quality teams. - Be a packaging SME for the organization. - Lead packaging tech transfers to new CMOs. - Ensure that packaging is developed and executed to meet Moderna’s requirements. - Ensure that all packaging activities are properly documented (specs, drawings, qualifications, change controls, etc.) - Maintain current knowledge of packaging operations and capabilities throughout the network - Support investigations and quality events related to packaging (CAPAs, Deviations, Complaints, etc.) - Optimize how we do things - SOPs, Work Instructions, Specifications, Ways of Working, etc.
- Collaborate with Global Sourcing Manager/s and cross-functional teams to enable forward looking category strategies aimed at elevating and accelerating value for global businesses. - Accountability in delivering against key business financial targets, including cost savings and value creation metrics. - Lead global technical roadmap for key categories, to ensure alignment with global business deliverables. - Provides guidance to global technical teams across R&D platforms to execute technical roadmap and supporting project activity. - Partner with global team to drive consistency in global Supplier Relationship Management, including leverage of standard global toolbox. - Build strong supplier relationships to develop depth in category knowledge, continuous improvement opportunities, and elevated value pipeline. - Cultivate and maintain effective working relationships with internal stakeholders. Build and exhibit cross-functional influence skills across virtual and in-person teams across regions and cultures. - Support core team in detailed cost model development, insight and management. Understand key cost drivers of the global category including underlying technical and processing cost levers. - Leverage technical depth to spark new thinking, and connect current and future technical capability development. - Collaborate across boundaries to identify transformational ideas; build pipeline through disruptive innovation.
- Collaborate with crossfunctional team members (Marketing, Consumer Insights, Operations, Finance and product R&D) to deliver consumer optimized packaging solutions - Provide packaging development leadership at business strategy meetings, and contribute to strategy development, project prioritization, resource allocation and project management Provide strategic leadership for Packaging R&D function across the Europe and Australasia region - Lead packaging development for General Mills’ brands in the region including Old El Paso, Nature Valley, Green Giant, Latina Fresh and Betty Crocker - Participation in the International Packaging R&D leadership community along with packaging leaders from other operating regions - Lead, coach and develop direct reports in plantbased R&D centers - Provide leadership and support for packaging development at external manufacturing partners.
- Lead Bacardí-Martini package development for Europe Middle East Africa and Asia-Pacific Region. (Including Global Promotion developments) - Provide feedback to the company project master plan from the Package Development perspective. - Feed the packaging innovation program, ensuring proper connectivity to key stakeholders such as Marketing, consumer insight and marketing innovation teams. - Key partner to procurement in the selection, improvement and development of supplier relationship. - Work along with key partners (i.e. Quality, Procurement, Supply, Plants and Suppliers) in the definition and implementation of best practices to ensure efficient usage of resources while enabling a “right the first time” approach. - Lead the identification of key improvement plans to address main organizational and operational gaps. - Support the optimization pillar for European plants and copackers to improve efficiency. - Ensure projects are staffed accordingly to business needs, escalate gaps and define alternatives to overcome these. - Lead the definition and future implementation new packaging specification system. Support roll-out of graphic management tool. - Lead and coach the team in terms of career planning, skill development, technical savviness to ensure people development in line with company values and department needs.
- Led the package development programs for dry laundry for Europe and Middle East & Africa (E-MEA) - Responsible for regional (E-MEA) contribution to the global package innovation program for Dry Laundry in Low Income Markets. - Provided relevant input on the consistency between consumer and business needs with technical possibilities and limitations. - Led simplification and efficiency programs for E-MEA region for Packaging. - Ensured correct resource planning (human and financials) to meet initiative master plan. - Defined and proposed to top management career planning and technical training for the team.