Head of Packaging Technology

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Date: May 14, 2025

Location: Barcelona, ES

Company: AkzoNobel

About AkzoNobel

Since 1792, we’ve been supplying the innovative paints and coatings that help to color people’s lives and protect what matters most. Our world class portfolio of brands – including Dulux, International, Sikkens and Interpon – is trusted by customers around the globe. We’re active in more than 150 countries and use our expertise to sustain and enhance the fabric of everyday life. Because we believe every surface is an opportunity. It’s what you’d expect from a pioneering and long-established paints company that’s dedicated to providing sustainable solutions and preserving the best of what we have today – while creating an even better tomorrow. Let’s paint the future together.

For more information please visit www.akzonobel.com

Job Purpose

Location possible in Poland, Spain (Barcelona), or Turkey.

Job Purpose

Head of Packaging Technology

The position is responsible for the AkzoNobel Packaging Technology strategy, processes and governance to support the BU and Regional teams (Packaging, Procurement, Product Management & Integrated Supply Chain) in delivering the business goals related to primary and secondary packaging.

Key Activities

Develops and maintains a multi-years sustainable Global Packaging Technology strategy that is aligned with business strategies to deliver standardization, harmonization, quality improvements, value engineering initiatives and selective innovation that supports the BU Product Management plans.
Lead a team of regional packaging technologists based across the globe, providing functional & technical leadership to deploy and deliver the Packaging Technology strategy, including decoration technology.
Drive continuous improvement in AkzoNobel packaging processes, ensuring efficiency, sustainability, and compliance with industry standards.
Co-chair a network of cross-functional Packaging Councils to manage the packaging portfolios, govern packaging changes and prioritize the packaging project portfolios/plans.
Initiate and drive continuous improvement and value creation programs related to packaging technology.
Define and manage regional/BU packaging portfolios working with key stakeholders ie. commercial, manufacturing, procurement, etc. ensure functional requirements are covered
Ensure we adhere to the relevant global and local compliance regulations & global standards related to physical packaging

About the job

1. Packaging Leadership: Lead, coach and mentor the regional packing technology professionals, fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment underpinned with common ways of working with a focus on quality, business partnering and value creation

2. Global Standardization: Establish and maintain a full set of standardized packaging processes, data and specification requirements across all regions, ensuring consistency and compliance with international regulations. Ensure these are fit for purpose and supported with the right tools to enable product managers and site teams to understand the selection, management and governance of packaging.

3. Vendor Collaboration: Collaborate with vendors to assess and integrate cutting-edge packing technologies that enhance product quality, reduce costs, and align sustainability goals.

4. Cross-functional Collaboration: Engage with and lead cross-functional teams, including Product Management, Procurement, R&D, production, and supply chain, to develop a technical packaging strategy that supports overall business objectives and timelines.

5. Risk Mitigation: Identify potential risks in packing processes and implement robust mitigation plans to ensure product integrity and regulatory compliance, including alignment with R&D and Product Management on the protocol for New Product Introduction and packaging changes

6. Value creation: co-create and champion the delivery of regional and business unit packaging value creation plans to harmonize, optimize and standardize primary and secondary packaging

About you

• Technical packaging degree BSc/MSc or equivalent, and experience of Packaging portfolio management

• A proven track record in global packing technology within FMCG or Chemicals industry

• Experience with managing consumer and/or industrial packaging portfolios; defining specifications, functional requirements, product/packaging compatibility, design for manufacture and optimal distribution performance.

• Experience with packaging quality management and continuous improvement

• At least 10 years’ experience working in a manufacturing environment, as supplier and/or sourcing/procurement

• Strong in stakeholder management working at executive level with product management, manufacturing and sourcing across region’s and Business Units

• Self-starter with strong organizational skills and structured approach

• Strong people manager that is able to lead a geographically dispersed team in a matrix organization

• Having worked in a multinational environment with sensitivity to different cultural behaviors

• Working at a regional level supporting more sites and willing to travel

• Excellent communication skills.

• Fluent in English

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At AkzoNobel we are highly committed to ensuring an inclusive and respectful workplace where all employees can be their best self. We strive to embrace diversity in a context of tolerance. Our talent acquisition process plays an integral part in this journey, as setting the foundations for a diverse environment. For this reason we train and educate on the implications of our Unconscious Bias in order for our TA and hiring managers to be mindful of them and take corrective actions when applicable. In our organization, all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age or disability.

Requisition ID: 46534

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