Senior Sustainability Packaging Project Manageror Engineer Packaging Sustainability

Position Title: Senior Sustainability Packaging Project Manageror Engineer Packaging Sustainability
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Requisition ID: 44124
Senior Sustainability Packaging Project Manager
Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
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About the role.
As Senior Sustainability Packaging Project Manager , you will play a key role in driving packaging sustainability across GB & EMENA, while contributing to McCain's global sustainability reporting and governance.
This is a highly cross-functional role combining sustainability, packaging, data management, reporting and project coordination. You will ensure the quality and consolidation of packaging sustainability data across regions, support global reporting and dashboards, and coordinate the implementation of sustainability roadmaps across Europe and Great Britain.
You will work closely with regional and global teams, influencing stakeholders and ensuring that sustainability commitments are translated into concrete actions and measurable progress.
What you'll be doing.

• Coordinate the collection, validation and consolidation of packaging sustainability data from GB & EMENA and other regions globally, ensuring high-quality data for internal and external reporting.
• Develop and maintain sustainability reporting, dashboards and datasets, helping turn complex data into clear insights for decision-making.
• Coordinate the execution of packaging sustainability roadmaps across Europe and Great Britain, ensuring actions are progressing against agreed timelines and objectives.
• Monitor relevant packaging sustainability regulations, including PPWR, EPR and national requirements, and support the assessment of their impact on McCain's packaging portfolio.
• Ensure packaging sustainability data is accurately maintained across internal systems, including PLM, SAP and other databases.
• Identify opportunities to reduce the environmental impact of packaging through materials, design, data and supply chain improvements.
• Collaborate with Sustainability, Regulatory, Procurement, Quality, Operations, Marketing, Packaging and IT teams, as well as suppliers and external partners.
• Contribute to the deployment of global sustainable packaging guidelines, tools and training across regions.
• Support the continuous improvement of sustainability data management and reporting processes, including the development of digital solutions such as Power BI and AI-enabled tools.

What you'll need to be successful.

• A degree in Packaging, Materials Science, Sustainability, Environmental Science, Engineering or a related technical field.
• 7+ years of relevant experience, ideally combining packaging sustainability, packaging engineering and/or sustainability reporting within FMCG or another relevant industry.
• Proven experience working with packaging sustainability data and reporting.
• Strong analytical skills and a genuine ability to work comfortably with numbers, datasets and data manipulation.
• Advanced Excel skills; experience with Power BI or other data visualisation/database tools is an advantage, with an appetite to further develop your digital capabilities.
• Experience coordinating projects or roadmaps, with the ability to ensure actions are delivered across multiple stakeholders and regions.
• Knowledge of packaging sustainability regulations such as PPWR, EPR and national regulatory frameworks, or the ability to quickly understand and assess evolving regulatory requirements.
• Packaging materials expertise is an advantage but deep technical knowledge of materials is not essential.
• Strong communication, organisation and influencing skills, with the confidence and assertiveness to engage stakeholders, follow up on actions and drive progress without direct authority.
• Ability to work autonomously, manage multiple priorities and bring structure to complex topics.
• Fluent English is essential.

About the team.
You will join the GB & EMENA R&D Packaging Team, working closely with the Senior Manager Packaging GB & EMENA and Global Sustainable Packaging Lead.
The team plays a key role in developing and implementing packaging solutions across the region, while contributing to McCain's global packaging strategy and sustainability ambitions.
Based in Villeneuve d'Ascq, you will work in an international environment with colleagues and stakeholders across Europe, Great Britain and other McCain regions globally. The role offers broad exposure to different markets and functions, with regular interaction across Sustainability, Regulatory, Procurement, Quality, Operations, Marketing, IT and Global teams.
The role will also involve occasional travel across Europe and Great Britain.
About McCain.
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Leadership principles.
At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.
For this role, We Act Like Owners is particularly important. You will take ownership of sustainability data, reporting and roadmap execution, proactively follow up with stakeholders, remove obstacles and ensure commitments translate into measurable results.
AI & Digital Capabilities
At McCain, AI and digital capabilities are part of how we work and innovate. We value curiosity toward emerging technologies and the thoughtful, responsible use of AI-enabled tools to improve outcomes as part of our future-ready culture.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to strengthen the way sustainability data is managed and visualised, including through tools such as Power BI and AI-enabled solutions.
The McCain experience.
We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you'll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we're better together.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.
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Job Family: Research & Development
Division: Global Research and Development
Department: R and D Packaging GB EMENA
Location(s): FR - France : Nord : Villeneuve-d'Ascq
Company: McCain Alimentaire SAS