Description:

As a Director Global Packaging Development you will lead and develop a multi-disciplinary department, overseeing sub-teams and ensuring strong collaboration, performance, and delivery against business objectives. Own and steer the department budget while providing technical expertise in luxury packaging and filling processes. Drive the feasibility and successful industrialization of new products and processes, ensuring technical excellence, scalability, and alignment with quality and business requirements.

How You Will Create a Beautiful Impact

• Leads the packaging department, including sub-packaging teams of experts, ensures capabilities and capacity of the teams in the department
• Steers and tracks the packaging budget Support the Vice President of R&D with all topics linked with packaging.
• Is a technical expert for luxury packaging material, luxury packaging technologies and filling processes and is working together with internal and external network to realize development, optimization (legal, regulatory, quality, strategy, costs, market position), filling and packing of luxury finished goods.
• Keeps up to date about new technologies, industrial trends and packaging of luxury competitors and proposes regularly new luxury packaging ideas for future products for La Prairie to VP R&D and Marketing.
• Ensures that the sub-teams:
• Deliver effective packaging, process development and industrialization of a product on time in full and in quality including relevant data (SAP, SOPs, tests, regulatory requirements, specifications, range boards, tools)
• Assess the feasibility of packaging and production improvements proactively (optimization, efficiency, new technologies)
• Ensure the compliance of the packaging portfolio (data management)
• Work on long-term ideas and initiative to be able to fill the product pipeline making proactively proposals to Marketing
• Select and releases suppliers according technical requirements, capabilities and procurement strategy
• Steer change of packaging within the Supply Chain

Main Accountabilities:

• Leadership skills
• Business understandings
• In the technical expertise field, should be able to guide the team with the following:
• Consultant and support to internal and external network (Marketing, Quality, Supply Chain, Suppliers)
• Development, validation and approval of moulds/tools inclusive lifecycle management for existing packaging & tools
• Handling of quality issues and improvements (implementation, supplier handling)
• Supports optimization projects
• Assesses technical capabilities (timing, quality, cooperation in development, production) and develops suppliers

Should be able to guide the team with following activities for packaging and process development

• Development and Pilot tool contracts
• Transparent documentation (SAP, Forms, SOPs) and communication of results, milestones to interfaces / stakeholders
• Finds solution for packaging issues (quality, production, transport)

Report & communication of the results

• Manage interfaces within Supply Chain and Marketing related to packaging or quality projects
• Ensure regular reporting according to agreement
• Risk assessment of packagings, filling activities and find ways to reduce risks of supply
• Define packaging strategy to update portfolio

What you need to have to be our next audacious and creative talent

• Packaging engineer or comparable Education
• Min. 15 years experience in luxury packaging development
• Min 5 years experience leading a team
• Organizational skills
• Fluent in English, good german language knowledge is beneficial

At La Prairie, we are committed to supporting your professional and personal well-being through a comprehensive benefits package that includes:

• Health Insurance Contribution: Enjoy a monthly contribution towards your health insurance.
• Generous Leave Policy: Benefit from 25 days of annual leave, plus an additional 8.5 days off (available for HQ employees).

• Flexible Work Arrangements: Embrace a balanced work-life with the option to work from home up to two days a week.

• Exclusive Product Discounts: Access special discounts on La Prairie products and participate in Employee-Only Sales at our exclusive Employee Boutique.
• Skill Development Opportunities: Benefit from unlimited access to La Prairie’s "SkillCare” program, tailored to enhance your skills and support your professional growth, along with access to the LinkedIn Learning platform for additional learning resources.
• Career Mobility Opportunities: Explore internal and international mobility options within the Beiersdorf Group.
• Employee Referral Bonuses: Earn bonuses for referring talented individuals to join our team.

Your journey with La Prairie begins here. Submit your application quickly and easily through our online tool—only applications received this way will be considered. The selection process includes a combination of interviews with HR, the Hiring Manager, and key stakeholders, along with assessments. We look forward to meeting you.

Note to Recruitment Agencies:

We don’t accept agency resumes. Please don’t forward resumes to our job portal. We’re not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

At La Prairie we work on creating a diverse & inclusive culture by having a balanced population and an open, safe, trusting and accepting culture. We believe that diversity in our talents is the strength of our House and we are supporting professional equality for everyone. We welcome applicants with and from diverse background.