R&D Packaging Scientist

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Your role at Clorox:

Join a dynamic global R&D team and play a key role in developing and optimizing cleaning products across the AMEA region, focus on packaging development.
As an R&D Packaging Scientist at Clorox, will enable superior packaging innovation that drives profitable growth by delivering optimized solutions that delight consumers, elevate brand equity, and improve the consumer experience through sustainability and design. This role supports the AMEA region, partnering across diverse markets and with internal and external manufacturing networks to translate regional business and consumer needs into scalable packaging solutions. You will leverage an engineering mindset and collaborate with R&D Product and Process Development, Marketing, Sales, Supply Chain, Procurement, Sustainability, and external manufacturing partners to investigate future technologies, identify sustainable packaging opportunities, and overcome technical hurdles. From day one, you will contribute to products used by millions of people while continuing to develop your technical and leadership capabilities across trusted consumer brands.

In this role, you will serve as the technical lead for projects from concept through commercialization, partnering with global cross-functional teams, suppliers, and external manufacturers to deliver consumer-focused innovations, support business growth, and drive cost savings.

This position combines hands-on laboratory execution with data-driven decision-making, leveraging statistical tools, experimental design, and technical risk assessment methodologies to develop robust products, optimize manufacturing processes, and ensure successful commercialization.

In this role, you will:

• Drive packaging innovation: Develop innovative packaging solutions that deliver a superior consumer experience while meeting functional, regulatory, sustainability, and brand requirements across AMEA markets.
• Execute with technical excellence: Own end-to-end packaging development, including conceptual design, prototyping, mechanical and chemical performance testing, consumer testing, laboratory validation such as drop, vibration, and ship testing, component tooling qualification, scale-up, production, manufacturing, and supply chain implementation.
• Own technical specifications: Create, maintain, and manage packaging specifications, including fill weights, pallet configurations, cube data, and assembly diagrams for primary, secondary, tertiary, and display packaging components.
• Advance sustainability commitments: Build a strong partnership with the Clorox Sustainability team and provide technical guidance to help the AMEA business progress toward 2030 corporate packaging goals, including virgin plastic reduction, increased post-consumer recycled content, and 100% recyclable, reusable, or compostable packaging.
• Support commercialization: Develop and apply SOPs, test methods, and best practices. Lead pilot and production trials for new packaging components, analyze results, troubleshoot issues, and provide recommendations that enable smooth scale-up and successful product launches.
• Collaborate across functions and markets: Partner with Global R&D hubs and with Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, Procurement, Sustainability, and external manufacturing partners across AMEA to interpret data, meet project objectives, improve efficiency, and manage technical risk.
• Strengthen packaging capability: Bring technical curiosity, ownership, and a continuous-improvement mindset to packaging innovation, while sharing knowledge and helping raise technical standards across the organization.

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What we look for:

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of packaging development or packaging engineering experience, preferably within multinational consumer packaged goods companies in food, beverages, home care, cleaning products, cosmetics, or related categories.
• Bachelor's degree in Packaging Engineering, Materials Science Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Industrial Design, or a related technical discipline. A Master's degree in Packaging Science is also relevant.   
• Fluency in English, with the ability to communicate technical information effectively across functions, cultures, and geographies.
• Knowledge of ASTM packaging testing methods and practical experience applying packaging validation approaches.
• Ability to work in laboratory and manufacturing environments with a range of materials and to create or evaluate physical prototypes.·       Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, organize technical work, and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong critical-thinking and problem-solving skills, with the confidence to work independently and cross-functionally with limited supervision.
• Demonstrated leadership and influencing skills, including the ability to align stakeholders and manage technical risk.

Preferred Qualifications

• Working knowledge of packaging design and palletization software such as AutoCAD and TOPS.
• Experience developing rigid, flexible, secondary, tertiary, or display packaging solutions.
• Experience supporting packaging commercialization through tooling qualification, production trials, manufacturing scale-up, or external manufacturing partners.
• Experience with sustainable packaging, including virgin plastic reduction, post-consumer recycled content, and recyclable, reusable, or compostable packaging design.
• Experience working across AMEA markets or in a multicultural, matrixed organization.

Key Competencies

• Consumer and customer focus.   
• Technical excellence and engineering problem solving· 
• Innovation and technical curiosity
• Cross-functional and multicultural collaboration
• Stakeholder influence and clear communication·   
• Ownership, accountability, and bias for action
• Adaptability and learning agility
• Project organization and prioritization

This role partners extensively with regional and global teams, suppliers, and manufacturing partners. Candidates should be comfortable participating in meetings outside of standard business hours once to twice per week, to support collaboration with stakeholders in China, and other Asia-Pacific locations

Workplace type:

Hybrid

Our values-based culture connects to our purpose and empowers people to be their best, professionally and personally. We serve a diverse consumer base which is why we believe teams that reflect our consumers bring fresh perspectives, drive innovation, and help us stay attuned to the world around us. That’s why we foster an inclusive culture where every person can feel respected, valued, and fully able to participate, and ultimately able to thrive. Learn more.

Benefits we offer to help you be well and thrive:

• Competitive compensation

• Generous 401(k) program in the US and similar programs in international

• Health benefits and programs that support both your physical and mental well-being

• Flexible work environment, depending on your role

• Meaningful opportunities to keep learning and growing

• Half-day Fridays, depending on your location

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