# Packaging Technical Leader

**Company**: Diageo
**Location**: Plainfield, IL
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $89,775 to $149,625 (annual)
**Category**: Logistics & Supply Chain
**Industry**: Manufacturing

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## Description

Diageo is seeking a Packaging Technical Leader to join their Supply Chain & Manufacturing team. The successful candidate will lead packaging technical development and commercialization for strategic, complex, and high-priority innovation, renovation, and supply optimization projects.

Responsibilities:

- Lead packaging technical development and commercialization for assigned strategic and complex projects from concept through commercialization and post-launch

- Serve as a senior technical leader within Packaging, translating project and brand requirements into packaging solutions and providing technical direction throughout the commercialization lifecycle

- Coach and develop early-career Packaging Engineers, building their technical capability, commercialization expertise, and confidence to independently lead packaging workstreams

- Partner cross-functionally with Commercialization, Innovation/R&D, Procurement, Quality, Manufacturing, Brand, and external suppliers to identify technical requirements, resolve packaging challenges, and enable successful commercialization

- Ensure appropriate technical rigor and documentation throughout commercialization governance

- Drive continuous improvement across Packaging Commercialization, strengthening technical standards, ways of working, and organizational capability while improving speed to market and first-time-right execution

Requirements:

- BS in Packaging Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, or a related technical field

- 5+ years of packaging development, packaging engineering, or technical commercialization experience in CPG, beverage, food, pharmaceutical, or a related manufacturing environment

- Demonstrated experience leading complex packaging development and commercialization projects from concept through production

- Strong technical understanding of packaging materials, component development, manufacturing processes, testing methodologies, and qualification requirements

- Experience translating consumer, brand, and business requirements into technically feasible and scalable packaging solutions

- Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot packaging and manufacturing challenges, identify root causes, and develop technically sound solutions

- Experience partnering with manufacturing sites and external packaging suppliers to execute trials, qualifications, and commercial launches

- Strong cross-functional leadership, communication, and influencing skills

- Experience coaching, mentoring, or managing technical talent; direct people-management experience preferred

- Ability to manage multiple priorities and make sound technical decisions in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment

- Working knowledge of packaging specifications, technical documentation, and stage-gate commercialization processes

- Experience with SAP and portfolio/reporting tools such as PowerBI is a plus

- Periodic travel required, up to 20%

## Skills

### Required
- Packaging Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Chemical Engineering
- Materials Science
- Technical Commercialization
- Project Management
- Leadership
- Communication
- Influencing

### Nice to have
- SAP
- PowerBI

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