Packaging Innovation Lead

**Main responsibilities**:

- Act as the packaging development go-to lead for AMEA, representing Global Packaging Innovation.
- Engages with business functions like growth hub science hub on strategic aspects to feed the short and long-term global packaging strategy and deliver the AMEA business objectives.
- In a global, challenging, and rich environment, owns a pipeline of medicinal (and medical device), food supplement, and cosmetic products packaging development projects in New Product Development (NPD) first and Life Cycle Management.
- You will bring Sanofi CHC’s packaging innovation strategy to life, integrating sustainability, digital, and e-commerce, ensuring that the company’s packaging sustainability innovations enhance consumer experience and business performance and support long-term growth ambition.
- Combining a technical understanding of packaging, sustainability, and business acumen in a healthcare environment will play a visible, cross-functional leadership role internally.
- You will also participate in and guide corresponding cross-functional project teams.
- You must demonstrate leadership, passion, and ability to challenge the status quo to promote consumer-centric packaging solutions that embrace a large span of requirements across all functions (Design, Marketing, R&D, Manufacturing & Supply, Regulatory ) while creating high packaging-driven value to the consumer and ultimately the business.
- Leads and delivers global packaging solutions & projects that ensure product integrity and value to consumers and are sustainable, affordable, and price tier-relevant.

**To succeed in this job, you must understand the success factors of the job as follows**:

- Strong strategic sense to impact business with packaging-driven opportunities in innovation, sustainability, digital, and e-commerce.
- You can connect the dots in the region beyond his location and deploy packaging 360° vision.
- Has good communication skills to turn complex cases into synthetic and holistic recommendations to business partners
- Comfortable with remote management from another region, which requires a good balance between a high level of autonomy and alignment skills to deploy with agility the global strategy in the region
- Have solid technical expertise that combines with the leadership needed to drive packaging agenda/project in a complex environment.
- Engaged, passionate about packaging, and able to challenge status-quo to push the packaging agenda.
- You have strong influencing skills and the ability to manage ambiguity through flexibility and agility in approaching different situations.
- Achievability: ability to deliver results, transform strategy into action

**Key results/accountabilities**
- Develop and execute a packaging-driven pipeline with business partners building on packaging strategic innovation pillars (sustainability, digital, e-commerce, etc..)
- Embrace the role of a “go to” packaging lead in AMEA
- Nourish and contribute to developing the long-term packaging vision, mission, and operating principles and developing a high-level strategy to support them.
- Identify packaging solutions that can contribute to Sanofi CHC's strategy to drive growth and profitability.
- Embrace the “packaging E2E go-to leader” role to drive and deliver the pipeline.

**Key Stakeholder Relationships**:

- Excellent interdependent partnering/ability to lead projects in a high matrix environment, including transversal initiatives as part of the Global Packaging group on various thematic (innovation, process, sustainability, digital, etc.)
- Navigating across different internal/external functions and partners that are critical to bringing packaging impact like Marketing, Design, Research& Development, Industrial Affairs, Procurement, Regulatory Affairs, packaging suppliers
- Engaging upfront in strategic discussions with marketing and R&D.

**About you**:
**Education**
- Bachelors degree in Science

**Required knowledge and/or experience**
- 10 years of relevant experience in packaging development, preferably from the cosmetic, pharmaceutical, medical device or FMCG Industry
- You have good knowledge and sensibility of packaging technologies (materials, moulding process, manufacturing )
- Proven experience in packaging sensibility & consumer focus and likes promoting the importance of packaging in the product experience.
- Very good understanding of regulatory requirements, especially for medicinal products and new sustainability stakes
- You need to have Project Management experience.