Leader Scientist sustainable food packaging

Lead / Head Scientist Experience: ( 5 - 8 Years )

Client- 50 years old companym Great place to work and mainly to Sustainable Packaging

( biodegadeable) and Plant in 6 cities and market leader in Food packaging

Description

Develop and commercialize sustainable flexible packaging films and substrates that provide high-barrier performance while eliminating plastic dependency.

Responsibilities

• 1. Create advanced barrier solutions delivering moisture, oxygen, and aroma protection while replacing metallized films through sustainable coatings, ensuring full regulatory and food-contact compliance.
• 2. Drive innovation in substrates including paper, bio-based polymers, and molded fiber to enhance printability, machinability, and morphology, exploring hybrid and multilayer structures for performance optimization.
• 3. Lead pilot trials and scale-up programs from lab to pilot stage, overseeing coating, lamination, and sealability tests to validate manufacturability and readiness for commercial production.
• 4. Establish and execute barrier testing protocols, shelf-life assessments, and performance benchmarks while validating machinability on form-fill-seal (FFS) lines.
• 5. Benchmark new developments against existing market alternatives, identify high-value segments, validate solutions with converters and brands, and align innovative outcomes with overall business strategy.
• 6. Support commercialization by developing cost models, enabling product certifications, assisting in demos and client engagements, and building partnerships with converters, FMCG brands, startups, and institutes while mentoring R&D teams.
• 7. Drive patentable innovations and ensure compliance with evolving sustainability, compostability, and food-contact standards while leading circularity initiatives that reduce resource use and replace plastics with compostable solutions.

Qualification Criteria

• Master's or Ph.D. in one of the following: Materials Science / Fiber Science / Polymer Science
• Chemical Engineering / Pulp & Paper Technology
• Sustainable Packaging / Industrial Biotechnology / Green Chemistry
• Related disciplines with strong R&D focus
• 5 to 8 years of R&D experience with a strong product-development track record.
• Proven track record in product development, pilot-to-commercial scale, and cross-functional leadership.
• Experience in sustainable materials, packaging innovations, circular economy, or chemical formulations.
• Strong understanding of regulatory compliance, IP generation, and commercialization of technical solutions.
• Strategic thinking and ability to translate innovation into business impact.
• Expertise across fiber science, coatings, flexible packaging, molded fiber, and waste valorization.
• Excellent stakeholder management, collaboration, and communication skills

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