Application Development Manager – Flexibles

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🕒 July 3

🌴 South Carolina – Remote

🌴 South Carolina – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👔 Manager

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TOPPAN Group

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10,000+ employees

🏭 Manufacturing

📦 Logistics

📣 Marketing

Manufacturing • Logistics • Marketing

TOPPAN Group is a diversified Japanese multinational specializing in printing technologies, packaging, and information solutions, with expanding businesses in digital transformation, AI-driven services, IoT and edge devices, logistics and space/office design. The group emphasizes research and development in printing and security technologies (including post-quantum cryptography), sustainability, and enterprise-facing solutions for museums, manufacturing, and consumer-packaged goods clients.

📋 Description

• Working closely with the Commercial Team to identify and successfully commercialize flexible packaging opportunities at targeted accounts • Leading technical activities to expand sales of existing structures, develop new flexible packaging structures, drive cost savings, and improve product performance • Building and maintaining strong technical customer relations • Translating customer requirements to TOPPAN specifications and developing manufacturing instructions • Ensuring portfolio is aligned with the business priorities and the needs of the customer • Defining project success criteria, draw conclusions based on data, make technical recommendations, and manage projects • Developing and leading pilot, production, and filling/packing trials • Publishing trial reports for internal and/or external distribution • Coordinating activities to accomplish tasks using available internal and external resources • Providing routine technical service activity • Preparing written and verbal presentations, project plans, updates, and periodic reports for internal and external use • Traveling domestically and internationally to manufacturing plants, suppliers, customers, conferences, and other innovation partners • Maintaining complete and accurate work records, including documentation for intellectual property protection

🎯 Requirements

• Strong material science knowledge (OPP, PET, PE films, Nylon, paper, and foil laminations) • New product development, flexible packaging applications, project management, and customer relationships • Extensive experience in key growth areas in food packaging such as retort, hot fill, hard-to-hold products, personal care, home care, and consumer healthcare packaging • Bachelor of Science, preferably in Engineering, Food Science, Packaging, or Plastics related field • 5-10 years of Flexible Packaging Product Development and manufacturing processes • Processes include printing (roto/flexo), laminating (adhesive and extrusion), coating, slitting, pouching and form/fill/seal conversion • 5-10 years of development of packaging for retort, hot fill, hard to hold, liquid applications

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents, including FSA and HSA options • 401(k) retirement plan with company match • Wellbeing tools and resources to support holistic health, including an Employee Assistance Program with a variety of services • Paid time off and holidays to recreate, rejuvenate and care for the health of yourself and family • Variety of company paid and voluntary employee-paid insurance plans including life, personal accident, and disability insurance • Tuition reimbursement