Senior Packaging Engineer

Relocation Assistance Offered Within Country
# 156370 - Topeka, Kansas, United States

Who We Are
Colgate-Palmolive Company is a caring, innovative growth company that is reimagining a healthier future for all people, their pets and our planet. Focused on Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care and Pet Nutrition, we sell our products in more than 200 countries and territories under brands such as Colgate, Palmolive, elmex, hello, meridol, Sorriso, Tom’s of Maine, EltaMD, Filorga, Irish Spring, PCA SKIN, Protex, Sanex, Softsoap, Speed Stick, Ajax, Axion, Fabuloso, Soupline and Suavitel, as well as Hill’s Pet Nutrition.

We are recognized for our leadership and innovation in promoting sustainability and community wellbeing, including our achievements in decreasing plastic waste and promoting recyclability, saving water, conserving natural resources and improving children’s oral health.

If you want to work for a company that lives by their values, then give your career a reason to smile and join our global team!
 

Do you want to make a difference in the lives of people and their pets? What about having the opportunity to connect with others across the world, full of stimulating discussions, and making impactful contributions? If this is how you see your career, Hill’s is the place to be!

Hill’s Pet Nutrition is a multi billion dollar, global division of Colgate-Palmolive Company and the maker of Prescription Diet, Science Diet, and Healthy Advantage brand pet food. Our mission is to help enrich and lengthen the special relationships between people and their pets by providing the best leading-edge pet nutrition technology, products, and expertise to pet owners, veterinary professionals and other key pet professionals worldwide. Our company is a globally recognized Best Place to Work.

The Packaging Engineer / Senior Packaging Engineer is responsible for leading the development of primary & secondary packaging concepts for new products and business models that are rooted in consumer insights. The ideal candidate will be a flexible collaborator with the ability to work across multiple project types and development stages from opportunity space identification, concepting, prototyping, through full commercialization. The ideal candidate should have a basic understanding of packaging sustainability concepts and general trade-offs both from a design & end of life perspective.

Core Responsibilities

• Partner very closely with cross-functional partners to identify opportunities to explore new Packaging concepts.  

• Lead and manage the development of new packaging workstreams.

• Tenacious mindset to overcome project hurdles that deliver breakthrough innovation.

• Persuasive capability to identify and provide rationale for packaging investment needs that deliver value to the business.

• Scout external technical solutions from current and new suppliers. 

• Understand rapid prototyping and have the ability to drive ‘test-and-learns.’  

• Have a solid understanding of the technical elements of Packaging, but not be bound by the current state of the industry.

• Understand the financial components of Packaging and Hill’s Pet Nutrition cost structure to guide development. 

Experience & Education: 

• Required: BS in Packaging, Engineering, or a related field

• Required: 5+yrs experience in consumer goods or related industries 

• Required: 2+yrs experience in Packaging, with a focus on development

• Preferred: Masters Degree in one of the disciplines above

Compensation and Benefits
Salary Range $88,800 - $125,000 USD

Pay is based on multiple non-discriminatory, individualized factors including but not limited to experience, job-related knowledge and education, skills and office/market location. In addition to base salary, salaried employees are eligible for annual discretionary bonuses, profit-sharing and, for Executive-level (salary grade 16 and above) roles only, long-term incentives in the form of Restricted Stock Units and/or Stock Options.

Subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable benefits plans then in effect, all salaried employees are also eligible for a competitive benefits package which includes:

• Insurance: Employees (and their eligible dependents) are eligible to participate in Company-sponsored Medical, Dental