Position Title:  Product & Packaging Deployment Leader

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PMI wants to work with the best talent available. Our diverse workforce of around 73,500 people speaks more than 80 languages. Our priority is to attract, support, and retain individuals from across the planet – no matter their age, gender, religion, or disability. Our people are our greatest strength, and we're proud of our culture of openness and respect. We believe that this is a big part of what makes PMI such a great place to work

We are looking for a Product & Packaging Deployment Leader who will work in İzmir and lead the deployment of global specifications for market and operations’ projects in close collaboration with Project Deployment Leader

As a Product & Packaging Deployment Leader, you will closely communicate with internal business partners as well as external partners located worldwide. This position will enable you to build a strong expertise on PMI multi-category products. You will assume responsibility to ensure finished goods meet market requirements and Philip Morris International quality standards.

Your Day to Day

• Conduct feasibility based on market brief on Global Specification and coordinate with relevant stakeholder to assess the technical aspect e.g. Machine capability, material specification. Identify packaging technical capabilities and solution to deliver market requirement
• Manage product design data in Product Lifecycle Management system
• Respond with viable solutions to market demands via overall innovative product, featuring special printing elements and formats
• Setup and monitor project timeline on the deployment of Global Specification including Cigarette & Packaging items to ensure deliveries are accurate and on time
• Prepare the brief and coordinate with Cigarette Designer for required code and develop Good To Print in collaboration with Prepress team to ensure everything setup correctly in PMI System. Ensure Global Specification is released in PMI System accurately
• Coordinate with Central Specification Office (CSO) to ensure Local Specification is created based on Global Specification
  Communicate and coordinate to relevant stakeholder in production to ensure alignment on product specification and to independently identify root cause, corrective and preventive action for any obstacles occurred during deployment
• Demonstrate technical capabilities in Global Specification on cigarette product e.g. cigarette & packaging component.
• Partner with and guide internal and external customers and business partners within the deployment of new packaging deployment according to PMI Requirements
• Collaborate with relevant stakeholder on qualification of new developed packaging components to ensure full compliance of new components according to PMI Standards
• Work on multiple projects in parallel.

Who we’re looking for

• Hold a university degree
• Have at least 3 years of experience in engineering, project management, specification, packaging
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills in English - Others is a plus
• Have strong communication & interpersonal skills and have attention to detail
• Have good level of stakeholder management skills & experience - BOM (Bill of Materials) creation/management knowledge & experience is a plus
• Are agile, collaborative, a team player, customer oriented and a quick learner.
• Knowledge of project management, regulatory requirements, PPMD systems (PLM, Digichain), Tobacco Industry acumen, Market & Operations understanding, Product & Packaging components and associated Printing & Converting processes, Manufacturing Process Knowledge.

How does this sound? If you are interested, go ahead and apply!