Packaging Engineer

Job Description

Albertsons Companies is working to become the favorite food and drug retailer in every market it serves. The organization includes 2,229 stores, 23 distribution facilities and 19 manufacturing plants with over 275,000 employees across 34 states and the District of Columbia.

The company is privately owned with supermarkets across the country that includes : Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Pavilions, Randalls, Tom Thumb, Carrs, ACME, Jewel-Osco, Lucky, Shaw's, Star Market, Super Saver, United Supermarkets, Market Street and Amigos.

The Strategic Sourcing Department has an opening for a Sourcing Packaging Engineer within the Own Brands and Manufacturing purchasing groups.

This position is in Pleasanton, California.

This is a great opportunity for the right candidate to join a driven and growing team within strategic sourcing. Self-starters, proactive and energetic candidates who are looking to contribute with ideas, innovative thinking, and tireless actions should apply.

We offer a great work-life balance, yet intense, challenging and fast-paced working environment that ultimately celebrates results but demands absolute professionalism at every step.

We welcome and value diversity, unique experiences, and wide skills sets.

Who you are : The ideal candidate is an established technical packaging engineer generalist who can pick up and run with any category.

You are a top performer who puts results first and follows a collaborative sourcing lead process. You are a self-starting problem solver with an entrepreneurial mindset who is persistently looking for places to improve, is curious, and excited by the work in the field of Strategic Sourcing and product manufacturing.

You are a true team player looking to learn, share, teach, and grow with the team. You are comfortable with ambiguity and understand that collaboration is a key for top results.

We are looking for : Driven leaders who can demonstrate that they are change agents, consensus builders and strategists who have experience utilizing a sourcing process, and whose calling and drive is to make an impact.

Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to :

Responsible for supporting and conducting strategic discovery events for different categories across the organization

Strong analytical skills : able to transform data into clear and relevant information

Develop and deliver high quality presentations

Establish relationships and lead Stakeholders / cross-functional teams along the process to get buy-in

Develop and lead price, and terms-and-conditions negotiations with suppliers

Lead Sustainability events from project kick-off to contract execution

Use and evaluate sourcing, sustainability and engineering tools and new technologies

Participate in spend analytics and work planning efforts

Create Strategic Sourcing partnerships in order to increase addressable spend and sustainability objectives

Become a category expert in understanding the category role and develop category playbooks and roadmaps to enhance strategic objectives

Develop objective event timeline and manage execution

Internal and External project management

Handle small to multi-million-dollar projects

Supervise and mentor entry level team members on building the financial model utilized to support objective events

Qualifications :

4-year college degree, graduate degree preferred.

4+ years' experience as a Packaging Engineer. 2-3 years in consumer product categories preferred

Experience in developing and managing strategic internal and external relationships

Strong experience with project management and managing strategic supplier alliances to deliver

Experience partnering with legal and technical terms and conditions

Strong business writing, and oral communications skills

Preferred Qualifications :

Consulting (including internal consulting) experience is a big plus

Degree or minor in quantitative field such as economics, math, statistics, managerial accounting, business management, etc. is preferred

Strong oral communications skills

Disclaimer : The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by associates assigned to this job classification.

They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and skills required of personnel so classified.

Diversity is fundamental at Safeway. We foster an inclusive working environment where the different strengths and perspectives of each employee is both recognized and valued.

We believe that building successful relationships with our customers and our communities is only possible through the diversity of our people.

And a diverse workforce leads to better teamwork and creative thinking, as well as mutual understanding and respect.

The Safeway policy is to provide employment, training, compensation, promotion and other conditions of employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, sex, age, disability, veteran status, medical condition, marital status or any other legally protected status.

We support a drug-free workplace. All applicants offered a position are required to pass a pre-employment drug test before hire.

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