Job Main Responsibilities:
* Deliver Funnel sufficiency and in market iTO / gTO by leading packaging innovations for NALI. Leading NALI sustainability agenda, by building full technical readiness and implementation plans.
* Responsible for delivering the Fuel for growth agenda for the region, through generating product logic saving ideas.
* Delivering Supply chain resilience, and complexity reduction projects according to plan.
* Work closely with GDC in global projects and cascading to NALI countries, leading the projects till implementation.
* Leading specifications management for packaging projects and general portfolio on AWS
* Ensuring all packaging material (PAM) and palletization pattern (P&P) specs are successfully created and approved in AWS for successful BOM creation.
* Ensuring SAP-PLM system for BOM creations & approvals when required, Supports the implementation of specifications and reflecting regional / local technical requirements.
* Leading promotion, AW change, co-packing projects where necessary, and Support in competitor benchmarking.
* Building and maintaining relations with existing /new suppliers and developing them while supporting related company functions to solve packaging related Supply Chain manufacturing issues, Quality issues and Consumer Complaints.
* Supporting execution of tests & trials at laboratory, pilot plant or full factory scale and reporting of test & trial outcomes and contributing to risk assessment and executing risk management plans for projects.
Job Key Requirements & Qualifications:
* Bachelor's degree in Food Science or Foods or Chemical Engineering
* Master's degree in same fields is a great plus
* Minimum 5 years experience in Foods Industry (R&D development department / Supply Chain packaging filling lines / Quality Assurance in packaging …)
* Experience and knowledge of 2D and 3D visualization software packages (preferable)
* Working experience within a multinational company would be an advantage.
* Excellent team player, good communicator
* Fluency in English and Arabic
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