Strategic Growth Leader

About Us

BW Packaging is driving performance at the intersection of people, technology, and customer care. As part of the privately held Barry Wehmiller family, we unite a global team of packaging experts with a clear purpose:
People Who Care, Building Solutions that Perform. We take on our customers’ toughest challenges as our own — delivering both innovative and enduring solutions that set the standard for value and performance. Our strength comes from our people and the power of our brands — trusted names in packaging that are known worldwide for engineering excellence, application expertise, and lifetime commitment to customer success.

Truly Human Leadership guides our belief that exceptional business results and profound respect for people together provide the foundation of enduring success. We are committed to forging lasting partnerships with our customers, earning their trust through integrity, expertise, and execution. With our full range of packaging solutions and long term partnership and service, we help customers achieve operational excellence today while building the future of packaging together.

Barry-Wehmiller is a diversified global supplier of engineering consulting and manufacturing technology for the packaging, corrugating, sheeting and paper-converting industries. By blending people-centric leadership with disciplined operational strategies and purpose-driven growth, Barry-Wehmiller has become a $3 billion organization with nearly 12,000 team members united by a common belief: to use the power of business to build a better world.

BW Packaging is seeking a Strategic Growth Leader to tackle our most complex business challenges and shape our long-term future. This is a high-impact role where you ll connect market intelligence, customer insights, and financial analysis to drive strategic recommendations and implementation.

As a Strategic Growth Leader, you ll work at the intersection of strategy and execution—moving seamlessly from analyzing market opportunities to building pilots and implementation plans that deliver real value  ll collaborate across Product Management, Operations, and Commercial teams to get the right facts on the table, develop viable options, and recommend the best solutions for our business.

• Conduct comprehensive market research and competitive analysis to inform critical business decisions

• Gather primary data through customer interviews, surveys, and site visits to understand market dynamics

• Build analytical frameworks and customer segmentations that enhance our strategic understanding

• Synthesize complex information from multiple sources into clear, actionable insights

• Perform financial analysis to evaluate strategic options and investment opportunities

• Develop financial models to assess business cases and return on investment

• Support pricing analysis and revenue impact assessments for strategic initiatives

• Collaborate with the Chief Strategy & Growth Officer to identify and frame critical strategic challenges

• Generate creative solutions and strategic alternatives for complex business problems

• Conduct thorough evaluation of options using quantitative and qualitative analysis

• Present findings and recommendations to senior leadership with compelling supporting rationale

• Design detailed implementation plans for approved strategic initiatives

• Lead cross-functional work streams to drive execution, decision-making, and adoption

• Develop and lead pilot programs to test strategic concepts and validate scalability

• Monitor progress and recommend course corrections to ensure success

• Partner with BW Leaders throughout the solution development process to ensure alignment and ownership

• Design and execute stakeholder engagement processes that build consensus across functional areas and leadership levels

• Bachelor s degree

• 3+ years of experience in product marketing, commercial strategy, market research, competitive intelligence, product development, or related commercial or technical roles

• Demonstrated ability to connect customer, market,…