R&D Associate Manager

At Amcor, we unpack possibility through our innovative and responsible packaging to provide solutions that benefit our customers, our people and our planet.  More than 10,000 consumers worldwide encounter our products every second and rely on us for safe access to food, medicine and other goods. We value their trust by making safety our guiding principle. It’s our core value and integral to how we do business.

Beyond this core principle, our shared values and behaviors unite us as we work together to elevate customers, shape lives and protect the future. We champion our customers and help them succeed. We play to win – adapting quickly in an everchanging world – and make smart choices to safeguard our business, our communities and the people we serve for generations to come. And we invest in our world-class team, empowering our colleagues to unpack their potential, because we believe when our people grow, so does our business.

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Lead an R&D team to execute projects in new products and/or processes aligned to customer and business needs.  Using business and technical knowledge, connects to all phases of product development and support, from concept to close, and is a key cross-functional and customer liaison.  Leadership may include areas such as: research, applications development, materials enhancements and/or cost-out initiatives. This role typically has in-depth expertise in more than one technical work area.  While the role mostly balances short- to mid-term project, the team also leads efforts toward long-term progress of multi-generational product plans and is responsible leading to meet short and long-term targets for the assigned area. Resolves issues which can include varied, non-routine circumstances and may require more sophisticated analytical/problem solving techniques to identify causes.

WHAT YOU GET TO DO

• Lead a team, working cross functionally, to that is accountable for the design and development of product, process, and/or other technical solutions that deliver value for our customers and Amcor. 
• Be a facilitative leader, ensuring alignment, engagement and development. Enhance the knowledge and skills of the organization.
• Balance a portfolio of projects that support growth, cost take outs and de-risking for customers and the business.
• Leverage market, customer and business intelligence to identify trends and emergent technologies to lead to growth. 
• Contribute technical skills and aptitude for problem solving toward regional and global challenges
• Leverage strong knowledge of materials and processes to influence design solutions across the organization
• Ensure standard products are leveraged ahead of developing innovative solutions. 
• Collaborate with marketing on trends found to ensure aligned strategic approaches.
• Collaborate with sales in building and sharing technical acumen that understands and delivers customer-valued solutions.
• Collaborate with operations on complex operations challenges such as machine support and product transfers as well as ensuring technical specifications are clearly delivered to support optimum manufacturability.
• Understand market and customer trends and needs
• Facilitate processes to address challenges, ensuring proper data gathering, analysis and communication.
• Support a culture of continuous curiosity and learning with business impact.
• Leverage standard processes such as: building technical specifications, designing experiments, conducting statistical data analysis, executing stage gate, technical reporting, IP, etc.
• Guide large-scale product or process development activities for an assigned unit, market or technology
• Provide recommendations and/or input for capital projects and ensure team participation.
• Partner in developing business cases for product and/or technology research.
• Support planning, evaluating, recommending, designing, developing and implementing new and/or enhanced core materials, products and/or processes for an assigned unit, market or technology.
• Challenge the status quo to uncover opportunities that drive collaboration across functions, accountability and growth.
• Collaborate with other R&D leaders in leveraging technology applications across teams.
• Support staff resource planning.
• Leverage abilities from global innovation center network.
• In partnership with Director, develop and maintain a budget.
• Learn and/or build best practices that drive innovation in solutions provided. 
• Investigates new customer requests and works with team members to develop and propose strategy to provide new packaging solutions to meet those needs
• Generate pertinent reports and information for customer and business uses.

WHAT WE VALUE

• Market / Customer Focus
• Fostering Innovation
• Results Orientation
• Risk Taking
• Analytical Thinking and Decision Making
• Collaborative Relationships and Influence
• Technical Expertise

WHAT WE WANT FROM YOU

• A Graduate/Bachelor’s degree
• 5+ years of demonstrated, progressive success in a technical capacity within a global manufacturing environment
• 1+ years of leadership in a large, matrix organization
• Demonstration of conceptual thinking to understand complex issues, apply judgment and proceed an agenda proactively
• Demonstrated successful experience in developing new platforms and advancing technologies
• Demonstrated successful experience in providing coaching and feedback
• Six sigma certification/training preferred

We expect our people to be guided by The Amcor Way and demonstrate our Values every day to enable the business to win. We are winning when:

• Our people are engaged and developing as part of a high-performing Amcor team
• Our customers grow and prosper from Amcor’s quality, service, and innovation
• Our investors benefit from Amcor’s consistent growth and superior returns
• The environment is better off because of Amcor’s leadership and products

Amcor is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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When you join Amcor, you will have access to a comprehensive benefits and compensation package that includes:

• Medical, dental and vision plans

• Flexible time off, starting at 80 hours paid time per year for full-time salaried employees

• Company-paid holidays starting at 9 days per year and may be slightly higher by location

• Wellbeing program & Employee Assistance Program

• Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account

• Life insurance, AD&D, short-term & long-term disability, and voluntary accident disability benefits are available

• Paid Parental Leave

• Retirement Savings Plan with company match

• Tuition Reimbursement (dependent upon approval)

• Discretionary annual bonus program (initial eligibility dependent upon hire date)