What are the Key Deliverables in this role?

Financial Outcomes

• Drive value engineering /cost saving initiatives and sustainability initiatives on time and within budget, with technical excellence.

Customer Service

• Collaboration with marketing team to identify packaging concepts based on market trends and consumer needs.
• Market intelligence: Conducting competition benchmark regularly, desktop research and studies for packaging innovation and improvements.

Internal Processes

• Packaging specification management: developing optimal packaging solutions for primary, secondary and tertiary packaging components, creation of specs and KLDs in the system.
• Trial Management: Trial protocol generation, analysis of trial data and manage change for commercial production.
• Vendor visits and travel for production/packaging trials at TCPL, Co-manufacturing and Co-packing facilities.
• Ensure cross-functional collaboration with Procurement, supply chain, marketing, finance, quality to deliver new packaging projects on time

Innovation and Learning

• Drive sustainability initiatives on time and within budget, with technical excellence
• Building own capability and knowledge sharing to improve packaging services and support to internal stakeholders.

What are the Critical success factors for the Role?

• PG Diploma in Packaging Technology, preferably from the Indian Institute of Packaging  with 2-4 years of relevant experience in Foods packaging development
• Hands-on experience for packaging development related to flexibles
• Willingness to travel as required.

What are the Desirable success factors for the Role?

• Effectively partners with marketing, procurement, supply chain, finance, and quality teams to deliver packaging projects on schedule.
• Proactively identifies and translates market trends and consumer needs into innovative packaging solutions.
• Demonstrates expertise in packaging specification management, trial protocols, and technical problem-solving.
• Consistently drives cost savings and value engineering initiatives without compromising quality or sustainability.