Packaging Project Manager
About the Role:
In this role of Packaging Project Manager, you lead initiatives aimed at improving efficiency, reducing costs and driving sustainability across our global packaging portfolio.
Your role is crucial to identifying and implementing cross-category and cross-regional projects that deliver measurable savings and optimize packaging portfolios or/and deliver sustainability initiatives while ensuring alignment between local teams and global objectives.
Acting as a central point of coordination, your will require strong leadership in managing projects, people and strategic information.
You will combine vision with operational excellence, ensuring that every project delivers innovation, sustainability, and efficiency while supporting business growth and maintaining product quality.
Main Responsibilities:
In this role, you will oversee the end-to-end management of packaging optimization projects, from initial planning to execution and closure. You will ensure that all initiatives are delivered on time, within scope, and aligned with defined KPIs.
A key responsibility will be to coordinate efforts across functions, regions and categories, acting as the primary interface between local and central teams to guarantee consistency and synergy throughout the organization.
Your role is instrumental in cultivating a proactive risk management culture by leading risk identification processes and ensuring clear communication. By delivering insightful analytics on team project objectives and developing key performance indicators, you enable the timely identification of corrective actions and new opportunities.
You will manage the ideas’ database to ensure that all project proposals are accurately recorded and tracked, and will regularly review the progress of regional projects, providing timely updates and valuable insights to stakeholders.
Through the development of robust dashboards and performance metrics, you deliver standardization and consistency in information sharing, fostering an environment of transparency and collaboration by cascading critical updates and best practices. This approach establishes efficient communication channels that connect regions and functions across the organization.
Additional responsibilities also include assisting in the preparation and occasionally execution of workshops, handling materials, documentation, sampling, and logistics to ensure seamless organization.
Organizing and managing presentations for varied audiences is an integral part of your position, supporting effective communication of project outcomes and strategies.
About You:
You should possess a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Project Management, or a closely related discipline, with demonstrated experience of around 8 years in project management, particularly within cross-regional or global environments.
Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities are essential, as are excellent communication and interpersonal skills. You will be adept at collaborating with diverse teams in dynamic settings and must be proficient in the Microsoft Office Suite (specifically Excel) and project management software.
Fluency in written and spoken English is mandatory and your expertise or background in packaging will be considered a strong asset.
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About Ferrero:
Ferrero began its journey in the small town of Alba in Piedmont, Italy, in 1946. Today, it is one of the world’s largest sweet-packaged food companies, with many iconic brands sold in countries all over the world. Find out more about Ferrero at ferrero.com.
DE&I at Ferrero:
Ferrero is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture in which all employees feel welcomed and appreciated and have the same opportunities. We believe all our people are equally talented in their own way. In nurturing the curiosity and natural abilities of our employees, we provide them, generation after generation, the means to succeed personally and professionally, enabling them to craft their journey at Ferrero. The diversity of our talents is what makes our work environment multicultural, innovative, and highly rewarding.
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