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Sr Manager, R&D - Plastic Rigid Materials

Company

The Kraft Heinz Company

Location

Glenview, Illinois

Posted

July 04, 2026

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Job Purpose 

​​As theRigid Plastic PackagingSenior Managerwithin the Sustainability & Materials Center of Excellence, you will lead a team of technical experts charged with developing rigid plastic packaging solutions to serve the North American portfolio. The objective of the team is to develop material and format solutions that meet sustainability requirements, addressing innovation, compliance, and value engineering initiatives. The team will develop and lead technical strategies and deliver novel, functional, cost-competitive solutions.In this role you will partner with Innovation, Process, and Platform packaging teams as well as cross-functional stakeholders to translate technical and sustainability requirements into viable, commercial, manufacturable solutions. The role includesleading the team toidentify material/polymer/packaging technology solutions and research pathways, and leading proof of concept, technology scale-up,...

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