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Position Job Title: R&D Manager - Product Development
BG and BU: Amcor Flexible Europe, Middle East and Africa
Function: Research and Development
Location: Open in Europe
Line Manager's Job Title: Product Development Director
Contract Type: Permanent
Job Purpose and Dimensions:
- Lead the Dairy Product Development team and own the dairy segment product and project portfolio. Partner with Sales to deliver innovative, market-ready solutions; drive cost-out through raw-material optimization, value engineering, and simplification; and ensure business continuity by qualifying alternatives and adapting to regulatory and compliance requirements.
- Ensure efficient resource allocation and project execution aligned to business objectives, balancing short-, medium-, and long-term priorities.
- Manage internal and external partners, with a strong focus on customer needs.
- Business partner to the Meat & Dairy BU, leading dairy product development across yoghurt, desserts, processed cheese, soft cheese, and dairy specialties.
- Part of the Global Protein Growth category.
Key Responsibilities:
- Technical Specification and Product Development Portfolio:
- Own the project portfolio, contributing to profitable growth through innovation and sustainability, simplification, compliance, and cost-out initiatives aligned to the business strategy.
- Lead the execution of the approved R&D pipeline through the Stage-Gate process, delivering to committed timelines and enabling strong cross-functional teamwork across multiple functions and sites.
- Prioritize and allocate resources based on project complexity, value, and strategic importance.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure successful delivery of key business initiatives.
- Actively contribute to global Protein technical portfolio leverage.
- Provide technical support for existing products.
- Lead the deployment of Global and BG R&D programmes, KPIs, processes, and tools.
- Team and Culture:
- Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team.
- Cultivate a collaborative, innovative culture and ensure effective communication across regions, business units, functions, and markets.
- Champion safety and customer focus.
- Drive process management and compliance.
- Intellectual Property Management:
- Manage IP strategy and confidentiality agreements.
- Oversee the patent-filing process in coordination with Legal.
- Protect company innovations from competitive threats.
Key Challenges:
- Translate diverse customer needs into commercially viable packaging solutions, and respectfully decline requests that are not viable.
- Build and lead cross-customer project teams to deliver high-impact results (end-to-end processes, raw-material simplification, BCP, and portfolio management) across diverse regions and cultures.
- Balance short-term and long-term priorities through effective resource allocation and a strong drive for results.
Qualifications/Requirements:
- Good scientific background, preferably Master's Degree in chemistry, engineering, material science or equivalent.
- Min 5 years' experience in people leadership within product development environment, preferably in a matrixed B2B.
- Project management experience in matrix organization.
- Experience in innovation and competitiveness portfolio management, with strong data analytics understanding
- Proven customer engagement and stakeholder management.
- Willingness to travel around 30% of time (primarily in Europe)
Specific Skills and Abilities:
- Strong project and resource management skills.
- Ability to coach and mentor
- Excellent interpersonal, negotiation, and presentation skills.
- Solid understanding of market trends and customer dynamics.
- Strong business acumen and strategic mindset.
- Comfortable working in complex, matrixed organisations with global reach and interaction
Amcor Leadership Framework:
- Driving for Results
- Customer Focus
- Influencing Others
- Managerial Courage
Publiée le 13/05/2026 - Réf : 1351913155
