Packaging Development Specialist

Job Description

Job Description

Description

Department : Marketing

Location :  Hybrid, Milwaukie, OR

Shift :   Full-time, Monday-Friday

Wage : $75,000 - $95,000 annually based on experience

Company Overview : At Bob’s Red Mill, we inspire joy with wholesome foods. Since 1978, we have been leading the natural foods industry by providing our customers with good food that makes them feel great. Wholesome means ensuring our food is of the highest quality, empowering and supporting our diverse group of employee owners, respecting our planet, and bettering our communities. We believe that joy is for everyone.

Position Overview : This position will be responsible for overseeing and optimizing packaging design solutions across all of Bob’s Red Mill product lines to enhance product quality, cost-effectiveness, and adhere to brand guidelines. This role will work closely with the design team, innovation, procurement, legal, regulatory, and other departments to ensure seamless implementation of packaging processes. Additionally, this position will utilize strong project management skills while working closely with agency partners and packaging vendors.

Key Responsibilities

Essential Job Functions :

• Work with the design team to ensure cohesive branding from concept to commercialization.
• Collaborate closely with the supply chain, regulatory and operations departments to ensure packaging standards are met.
• Manage end-to-end packaging design process, from design concept to testing and product line integration, in collaboration with the procurement team.
• Act as a technical expert on optimizing design and production for flexo packaging, providing guidance and recommendations to cross-functional teams.
• Establish strong relationships with packaging vendors, to work through graphics, color, and consistency for high-quality packaging design results.
• Lead multiple packaging projects simultaneously, ensuring timely execution, cost-effectiveness, and alignment with business objectives.
• Maintain current packaging design standards and archives.
• Review and manage edits to packaging designs to ensure they are aligned with branding guidelines and regulatory compliance.
• Proactively seek cost-saving opportunities, process improvements, and new packaging innovations to improve business performance in collaboration with procurement.
• Proof and approve production files to ensure no errors prior to print.
• Build and maintain internal packaging design processes.
• Complies with all company policies and procedures and operates all equipment in a safe and food-safe manner.
• Complies with Bob’s Red Mill food safety policies and procedures including adherence to FDA regulations, Safe Quality Food (SQF) Standards, and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs).
• Responsible for reporting food safety and quality concerns to Supervisors and / or Department Manager.
• Performs other duties and tasks as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities :

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

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Benefits

We believe taking care of our community starts with giving our employee owners the resources to take care of their physical, mental, financial, and future well-being by offering a leading benefits package.

Benefits :

Purpose : To inspire joy with wholesome foods.

Values : Respect, Teamwork, Accountability, Determination