About this Position Henkel is looking for a R&D Packaging specialist to join our team in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
What you´ll do
- Maintain and update the packaging portfolio for Central Asia & Caucasus, Henkel Consumer Brands (packaging specifications, technical drawing, palletization schemes, products article reports, packaging overviews and workflows).
- Main contact for LMU, Purchasing and Production to provide packaging expertise and documentation (artworks approval, packaging solutions consultations, technical communication with pack.suppliers).
- Steering and execution of packaging related production trials and tests (contact to local Contract Manufacturers for all packaging related inquiries, testing and production trials).
- Competitors check and monitoring of local packaging solutions (regular monitoring and reporting of competitors products and new packaging items in the market of CAC).
- Localization of packaging materials and solutions (close collaboration with local packaging suppliers and leading the localization packaging materials).
- Participation to continuous optimization of packaging costs and packaging related production (leading the saving initiatives to optimize the costs of packaging materials used in CAC portfolio).
- Research and Improve product packaging quality (participate in measures identifying the reasons of FG and Pack. Materials quality issues and quality improvement).
- Support of production maintenance (participate in measures for all kind of production maintenance activities, impacting packaging).
- Providing ready packaging solutions for standard and promotion products (support Local Marketing with participation in Promotions by offering relevant packaging solutions).
