Senior Industrial Designer
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Huhtamaki is a key global provider of sustainable packaging solutions for consumers around the world, enabling wellbeing and convenience. Our innovative products protect on-the-go and on-the-shelf food and beverages, ensuring hygiene and safety, and help prevent food waste. We are committed to protecting food, people and the planet and are on the lookout for passionate and consummate professionals to join our growing team to help us deliver on our ambitious 2030 Strategy. We look for colleagues who Care, Dare and Deliver. Fiber Foodservice Europe-Asia-Oceania (EAO) business segment offers high quality molded fiber and paperboard packaging for food and beverages across Europe, Asia, Oceania, Middle East, and Africa. We serve quick service and fast casual restaurants, coffee shops and vending operators as well as egg, fruit and vegetable producers. We also operate with a broad range of Fast-Moving Consumer Goods customers. The segment has a turnover of €1.4 billion (2023), 6,100 employees and 31 manufacturing sites across Europe, Asia, Oceania, Middle East, and Africa. We have an exciting opening for a Senior Industrial Designer to join our Fiber Foodservice segment, reporting to our Head of Innovation. In this crucial role, you will combine your creativity with technical skills to design innovative packaging that is not only visually appealing but also functional, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly. Responsibilities:
- Generation of market insights to fuel segment innovation pipeline in close collaboration with commercial stakeholders.
- Organize and facilitate internal and external packaging innovation sessions in close collaboration with commercial/technical stakeholders.
- Translate customer claims and Huhtamaki technologies into customer product design proposals, prototypes and pitching decks/mood-boards.
- Degree educated in industrial design/design engineering
- 10+ years’ experience in industrial design, from the packaging industry / FMCG business experience
- Profound understanding of design thinking (generation of insights, ideation, concept creation, prototyping and concept validation)
- Experience with visualization and prototyping technologies
- Strategic understanding of market insights and customer & consumer needs and how to translate them into business opportunities
- Intellectual Property know-how (beneficial)
- Experience with fiber- or paper-based products (beneficial)
- Fluent English language skills
- Strong communication and presentation skills
- Highly collaborative way-of-working, both with internal colleagues and with external partners
- Curious and open personality with a constant willingness to learn
- High level of creativity
- Strong entrepreneurial spirit
- Ambitious personality
- Drive and determination to have a sustainability business impact at scale, working with well-known global brand customers
- A meaningful job: At Huhtamaki, we believe in protecting food, people and the planet. Our innovative and transformative solutions touch the daily lives of people everywhere.
- Employees at the center: As part of our 2030 Strategy we are committed to building a high-performance workforce and in doing so strive to be the best workplace for our employees – employees safety and wellbeing is our top priority
- Development opportunities: We care for each other – and want our talent to thrive and develop
- Responsible employer: Sustainability is embedded in everything we do. We believe diverse teams fuel innovation. We invest in fostering an environment where everyone is safe both psychologically and physically and where diversity and inclusion are promoted through day-to-day behaviors, which are reinforced by our policies and practices.
Join us to shape the future together!