Advanced Product Development Manager job in Manchester at Amcor

Join Amcor and you can be part of the team that makes the packaging of the future better for people and our planet.  

Here at Amcor, we work together every day to make a positive impact on the lives of millions of people across the globe by providing packaging for essential products, including food, beverages, pharmaceutical, medical, home and personal-care.  

We are sustainability leaders in our industry. We are the first global packaging company to commit to make all our products recyclable or reusable by 2025.

Our products are vital to support the lives of millions of people across the globe every day.

We are always looking for talented and passionate individuals who are motivated to make a difference. Working at Amcor means you will have a unique opportunity to be a part of an organisation that is committed to innovating and driving new solutions to create more sustainable packaging solutions.

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At Amcor Rigid Packaging (ARP), our teams are focused on developing and making plastic bottles and jars that create a unique experience and are better for the environment.  Our bottles and jars are primarily made from PET (polyethylene terephthalate), which has rapidly become the world’s preferred packaging material. PET is lightweight, shatterproof, recloseable, resealable, reusable and infinitely recyclable*.

With approximately 6,000 people across about 50 manufacturing operations in 11 countries and an annual revenue of US$2.9 Billion, ARP provides rigid packaging solutions to the beverage, pharmaceutical, food, and home and personal care segments.

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Amcor Rigid Packaging – External Job Posting

Advanced Product Development Manager

Manchester, MI

Position Overview:

The Advanced Product Development Manager is responsible for fulfilling the company's product technology innovation requirements that support the business and commercial growth goals via Strategy development and implementation working in conjunction with Manchester Innovation team and Regional and Local Commercial leads, while collaborating and aligning efforts and strategy with other key functions of the organization like Operations & Customer Solutions and Supply Chain.

    Essential Responsibilities and Duties:

• Define and manage advanced development project scopes, technical targets, role and responsibilities, deliverables, and schedules, based on business strategy and external partners.   
• Consistently establish strategic relations and timely dialogue between various customers, departments, and personnel to develop partnership and cohesive teams. Promote open and continuous communication
• Review, coach and grow staff across the organization regarding the advanced development process.
• Manage organizational long-term plans with a focus on innovation and growth.
• Review proposed and ongoing project requirements to determine time frame, funding, procedures, etc. for completing the projects.
• Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, anticipating their needs and providing support to them as requested.

    Skills Required:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a technical or engineering field, with Consumer- Packaged-Goods industry experience. MBA, Business Development formation and/or experience is a very important plus.
• Minimum seven years engineering and manufacturing experience, including commercial and project management experience.
• Strong Strategic thinking and ability to interpret vision to define goals and set direction for action.
• Demonstrates leadership to upper management and to Product Development team.
• Strong management, communication, and people skills to influence and manage multiple resources
• Strong interpersonal skills required to communicate technical and financial information and to complete project assignments.
• Able to analyze problems, identify issues and implement solutions.
• Lead efforts at all levels and with other departments.
• Self-directing to meet goals set by organization.
• Maintains a high regard for personal safety, for the safety of company assets, employees, customers, and consumers.
• Demonstrates competency in project cash-flow management and monthly project forecasting.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office and Microsoft Project software. Experience with Windchill Product Lifecycle Management is preferred.
• Ability to handle confidential information.
• Spanish/ English – Portuguese a plus

    Relationship:

• Commercial and Operations stakeholders.
• Corporate R&D
• Upper management, peers, and to Product Development team.
• Internal relationships with quality control, purchasing/procurement, and finance.
• External relationships with clients and vendors.

Amcor is a thriving S&P 500 organisation listed both on the NYSE (AMCR) and ASX (AMC) with US$13 billion in sales. We have a proud history dating back to the 1860’s and come a long way from a single paper mill based in Melbourne to becoming the global leading packaging company. Today, Amcor is an international organisation empowering its 50,000 employees in over 40 countries and across 250 sites.  

At Amcor we believe in talent through diversity and promote equal opportunity in the workplace and recognise that discrimination and harassment of co-workers based on race, creed, disability, gender, marital or maternity status, religious or political beliefs, age or sexual orientation is unlawful.

The information contained herein is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities of the job, nor are they intended to be an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to do the job.

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