Strategy & Portfolio Technical Director - Packaging
Italia, Mantova
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Middle e Top Management
Data ultimo aggiornamento: 11/05/2026 2026-08-11
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Reporting to the General Manager, you will be responsible for:
- Working with the General Manager to define and steer the technical evolution of the product portfolio in line with business priorities.
- Defining and managing the technical product roadmap, balancing market requirements, engineering constraints, and industrial feasibility.
- Leading technology and architecture choices for packaging and labelling machinery, ensuring performance, reliability, and scalability.
- Developing and upgrading products based on customer requirements, installed base feedback, and structured competitive analysis.
- Monitoring competitor solutions and market standards to support differentiation through engineering.
- Monitoring product cost structures (BOM, production, lifecycle costs) and gross margins across the portfolio to support data-driven decisions in R&D prioritization.
- Analyzing product profitability and economic performance by segment and application, actively feeding insights into product design choices, industrialization strategies, and production optimization.
- Identifying, evaluating, and driving the adoption of Artificial Intelligence tools and methodologies to enhance product functionality, optimize development and industrial processes, and enable superior future product features compared to competitors.
- Availability to travel nationally and internationally (trade shows, customer visits, production sites), approx. 30-40%.
- 10+ years of experience in similar leadership roles, ideally within the industrial machinery or packaging sectors.
- Strong leadership skills and strategic vision, with proven managerial capabilities.
- Solid understanding of aftermarket business models, including spare parts, service sales, and lifecycle value creation.
- Fluent in English; additional languages are considered an advantage.
- Ability to thrive in dynamic, fast‑paced environments, with international exposure.
- Experience in entrepreneurial, rapidly scaling, or transformation‑driven contexts is a strong plus.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, combined with a customer‑centric and results‑driven mindset.
An international company, recognized as a leader in the packaging sector, with global coverage and a strong focus on the food & beverage industry.
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