Senior Manager, Packaging Engineering, Procurement

🔥 15 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $140k - $150k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🛒 Procurement

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Blueland

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2019

👥 B2C

🛍️ eCommerce

🧘 Wellness

B2C • eCommerce • Wellness

Blueland is a company committed to providing eco-friendly cleaning solutions, offering a wide range of reusable and sustainable household cleaning products. Their innovative offerings include starter kits, refills, hand soaps, dish and laundry detergents, toilet cleaners, and spray cleaners, all of which are designed to minimize waste by eliminating single-use plastics. Blueland is dedicated to creating a world without waste and makes it easy for consumers to make sustainable choices through their plastic-free and compostable packaging. With a mission to be environmentally responsible, their products hold certifications such as B Corp, Climate Neutral, and EPA Safer Choice, illustrating their commitment to sustainable practices.

📋 Description

• Own packaging development from concept through commercialization for new product launches, line extensions, and renovations, including material selection, prototyping, specifications, testing, qualification, and production scale-up • Lead packaging trials, line validations, and performance testing • Partner with R&D, Operations, Quality, Marketing, Creative, and external manufacturing partners to develop scalable packaging solutions • Communicate technical and commercial tradeoffs across sustainability, cost, quality, speed, aesthetics, consumer experience, manufacturability, and supply continuity • Develop and maintain packaging technical standards and specifications, including component specifications, drawings, BOM requirements, test protocols, qualification reports, pallet configurations, and packaging acceptance criteria • Own strategic sourcing and procurement for the packaging portfolio, including supplier identification, competitive sourcing, negotiations, supplier selection, contracting, and ongoing commercial management • Develop and manage the packaging supplier network • Lead packaging RFPs and commercial negotiations • Build a multi-year pipeline of cost savings and value-engineering initiatives • Maintain relationships with innovative packaging suppliers and expertise on emerging materials, manufacturing technologies, sustainability standards, and packaging regulations

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Packaging Science, Packaging Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Materials Science, or a related technical discipline • 7+ years of relevant experience in packaging engineering, packaging development, strategic sourcing, or related CPG functions • Demonstrated technical expertise developing and commercializing primary, secondary, and tertiary packaging • Experience working directly with packaging suppliers, contract manufacturers, and 3PLs • Experience in supplier negotiations, competitive sourcing, cost modeling, value engineering, supplier management, and delivering measurable cost savings • Experience developing and sourcing packaging within home care, personal care, beauty, food & beverage, or other consumer products, particularly powders, tablets, or concentrated liquid products • Experience sourcing and developing glass, flexible packaging, fiber-based packaging, corrugated, closures/dispensing systems, printing and decoration, and sustainable alternatives to conventional packaging • Experience managing packaging across DTC, Amazon/e-commerce, mass retail, and club channels • Experience with global sourcing, retailer-specific requirements, palletization, and packaging supply-chain optimization

🏖️ Benefits

• health benefits • stock options • generous paid time off • paid holidays • paid civic engagement days • paid parental leave • 401k (employee contribution) • professional development stipends • remote work reimbursements • various discounts to like-minded companies