Packaging Engineer/ Product Development Manager

As a Packaging Engineer/ Product Development Manager, you'll step into a high-impact, short-term backfill role supporting product development work across transversal projects. You'll be the go-to project leader for key initiatives-helping keep timelines on track, driving risk visibility, and enabling smooth execution from launch planning through completion. If you enjoy structured project management, strong Excel-based tracking, and collaborating across Marketing, Operations, and R&I to deliver quality outcomes, this role is built for you.

Job Title:Packaging Engineer/ Product Development Manager

Location:Clark, NJ- hybrid

Pay Range: $45 - 51/hr

What's the Job?

• Develop and manage project timelines, defining key tasks and milestones while minimizing risk to support on-time launches in compliance with the LOreal Quality system.
• Present launch and transversal project reviews, driving risk escalations to Operational and Divisional leadership teams.
• Guide Marketing through new innovation product briefs and conception definitions to support design alignment with Agility, Profitability, and LOreal For the Future (L4TF).
• Lead project review meetings, drive resolution of roadblocks, and coordinate cross-functional stakeholder participation and ownership for transversal projects.
• Analyze and drive launch viability across cost, timeline, and sustainability (L4TF), including feasibility costs and COG analysis, value analysis support, and QCP project management.

What's Needed?

• Senior manager level experience (4-6 years) in package/product development and project management, preferably in cosmetics, consumer goods, or a related field.
• Bachelor's degree in Packaging Engineering, Operations, or a related technical discipline (technical packaging experience is a plus).
• Strong project management skills with proficiency in Microsoft 365, including Excel for tracking and documentation.
• Proven ability to collaborate and build strong relationships across cross-functional teams, with clear written and verbal communication to influence at all organizational levels.
• Ability to work onsite as an essential function of the position.

What's in it for me?

• Opportunity to manage transversal PPD development projects and potentially lead a product launch end-to-end with limited input once fully onboarded.
• Chance to contribute to strategic catalog maintenance updates, plant transfers, and new product launches while supporting team continuity during short-term leaves.
• Role designed for a seasoned, strategic, and agile leader who can inspire teams to move projects forward.
• Exposure to risk assessment, mitigation planning, and cross-functional coordination across Operations and Research & Innovation (R&I).
• Experience-building work across QCP, feasibility costing, COG analysis, packaging component development, and launch viability evaluation.

Upon completion of waiting period consultants are eligible for:

• Medical and Prescription Drug Plans
• Dental Plan
• Vision Plan
• Health Savings Account
• Health Flexible Spending Account
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
• Supplemental Life Insurance
• Short Term and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Business Travel Insurance
• 401(k), Plus Match
• Weekly Pay

If this is a role that interests you and you'd like to learn more, click apply now and a recruiter will be in touch with you to discuss this great opportunity. We look forward to speaking with you!

About ManpowerGroup, Parent Company of: Manpower, Experis, Talent Solutions, and Jefferson Wells.

ManpowerGroup (NYSE: MAN), the leading global workforce solutions company, helps organizations transform in a fast-changing world of work by sourcing, assessing, developing, and managing the talent that enables them to win. We develop innovative solutions for hundreds of thousands of organizations every year, providing them with skilled talent while finding meaningful, sustainable employment for millions of people across a wide range of industries and skills. Our expert family of brands - Manpower, Experis, Talent Solutions, and Jefferson Wells - creates substantial value for candidates and clients across more than 75 countries and territories and has done so for over 70 years. We are recognized consistently for our diversity - as a best place to work for Women, Inclusion, Equality and Disability and in 2023 ManpowerGroup was named one of the World's Most Ethical Companies for the 14th year - all confirming our position as the brand of choice for in-demand talent.