Secondary Pack Manager

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We are looking for a Secondary Pack Manager to join our Packaging Team. The successful candidate will manage the entire packaging development process, from initial concept to production. This involves managing the development and execution of innovative packaging solutions that align with market trends, consumer behavior, managing budget and coordinating with cross‑functional teams to align on packaging requirements and evaluating technical and financial feasibility of projects.

• Oversees the development and implementation of packaging concepts for new products and improvements to existing solutions, ensuring alignment with market trends, consumer behavior, and brand identity.
• Manages the budget for packaging development projects, ensuring resources are used efficiently and costs remain within approved limits.
• Collaborates with cross‑functional teams (e.g., Marketing, Production) to align on packaging requirements and assess the technical and financial feasibility of proposed solutions.
• Oversees the creation and evaluation of packaging prototypes, ensuring they meet quality standards, functional requirements, and product protection needs, and implements adjustments when necessary.
• Manages the industrialization of packaging materials by translating concepts into technical specifications and ensuring the production process is feasible, scalable, and meets quality and efficiency targets.
• Builds and maintains strong relationships with packaging partners and suppliers, negotiating contracts, ensuring compliance with agreed terms, resolving issues, and driving performance improvements.
• Leads initiatives to enhance packaging materials (e.g., grammage, structure) and production processes (e.g., reducing scrap, increasing speed, lowering sealing temperatures), working with relevant teams to identify and resolve inefficiencies.
• Ensures all packaging development activities comply with applicable laws, regulations, and industry standards.
• Tracks KPIs and performance metrics related to packaging development, identifying improvement opportunities and preparing reports with recommendations for senior management.
• Stays up to date on industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies to identify opportunities for innovation or improvement in packaging, providing recommendations to senior management.
• Previous experience in a similar role, preferably in the food & beverage industry.
• Result oriented & accountable.
• Strong leadership skills.
• Available to work in Turin (remote working is possible according to company policy).

• Comprehensive welfare package including short working week during summer months.
• Hybrid working policy (10 days a month remote working).
• Company restaurant service.
• Access to our corporate gym.
• A fast paced and dynamic international context.

• Our Talent Acquisition Team will assess your application and if you have what we’re looking for, you’ll be contacted for an initial interview.
• If you make it to the short list, you’ll be interviewed by the Hiring Manager and, if necessary, other members of the hiring panel.
• In some cases, you may be required to show us your skills via a technical challenge.

Our Group was founded in Turin in 1895, has been owned by the Lavazza family for four generations. As one of the world’s most important coffee roasters, we operate in more than 140 countries through our brands, subsidiaries and distributors, with a total of over 5,500 employees.

Every day we operate in all sectors of the coffee industry, offering our products through every channel and positioning our brands as a high‑quality blend.

We are a community of single origins united into a perfect blend, humans enriching one another through our mutual diversity.

Awakening a better world every morning: the commitment we make every single day.