SIRE® is the market leader in Life Sciences recruitment. We believe the recruitment market needs to gear up in technology and continuous innovation. We like technology, in a Life Sciences market driven on science, we couldn’t stay behind; we drive Recruitment Science. Investing a majority of our turnover in technology enables us to use unique Resource Technologies. By using highly advanced algorithms, we enable our team of Resource & Data Strategists© to maintain the most advanced, detailed and complete Life Sciences network in Europe. This big data enables us to work Reverse Recruitment©: we first analyze the market in-depth before we go out to the market. Because we analyze the whole market, we can compare facts and data. This enables us to do Facts & Big Data Recruitment©, making sure we, or better yet, you find the right career!Our client is a professional Food organisation, based in Utrecht Netherlands.

The Company

It is a Multinational Company and is around for more than 100 years.

Role Description

You will be responsible or lifting the company’s approach towards packaging from a local and transactional approach to a regional and strategic view including a long-term packaging strategy and dedicated regional R&D packaging organization. You will be initiating, developing and executing packaging programs & projects across all product categories to achieve agreed objectives within the food manufacturers and business units. Key aim is cost savings and sustainability.

Responsibilities

- Innovation and renovation of existing packaging lines
- Leadership and technical expertise for the development and executing of the long-term innovation strategy program
- Support the business units in the development of packaging innovation initiatives from concept to product
- Review, align and optimize of packaging costs
- Identify and validate of packaging suppliers during tenders and supplier management
- Interdisciplinary collaboration with QA, Marketing, Operations etc. to improve efficiency of NPI projects

Requirements

- BSc in Engineering, Food Technology or related degree
- 5 years working experience in packaging development
- Proven experience in technical project management
- Understanding of manufacturing, operations
- Strong leadership skills: leading by influencing
- People manager
- Experience with materials as, flexible plastics and cardboard
- Fluent in English