Packaging Development Specialist

Be part of shaping the future of Hearing Aid Packaging with Demant as our new Packaging Development Specialist!
Are you ready to be an integral part of our Commercial Packaging team? Join the Demant family and be part of our mission to make a life-changing difference for over 500 million people worldwide who live with hearing loss.
Based in Global Marketing within our Hearing Instrument Group, you will be working across the value chain - across R&D, Operations, Quality, Regulatory, and Brands to deliver protective hearing aids and accessory packaging. Packaging that is cost effective, sustainable, positively impacts the customer experience, and increases brand awareness.
“Packaging is a team sport – the atmosphere is informal, and trust and a can-do-attitude are keys to success. Our packaging activities must deliver value to our customers, across the organization and contribute to the overall business goals”, says your new manager Anne-Marie Hasselbalch.

Collaborate across the entire value chain

As a Packaging Development Specialist, you will join our Marketing Development team. Reporting to the Senior Director of Marketing Development and based at our headquarters in Smørum, Denmark, you will collaborate with stakeholders across the organization, using your valuable stakeholder skills to balance input while securing progress.
This role offers the opportunity to work in various areas of packaging development, including material selection, specification, and testing. You will be involved in packaging activities throughout the product lifecycle, from product launches to strategic projects and market changes, across our brands, including private labels.

More in detail, your activities will include:

• Working closely with the Senior Packaging Portfolio Manager and Senior Category Manager to achieve our goals in Commercial Packaging
• Actively engage with supply chain and business unit partners on e.g. design, user experience, cost, sustainability, and regulatory requirements.
• Serve as the Subject Matter Expert for Packaging, participating in audits and ensuring compliance.
• Coordinate design change activities within packaging and Point of Sales materials.
• Drive and maintain packaging specification and documentation processes, including material and part specifications.
• Manage the shared Packaging Management mailbox and drive our team activity board.

Are you our new colleague?

To succeed in this role, we imagine that you have

• Technical expertise within packaging: Knowledge of materials, design, manufacturing processes, and innovations with a focus on product life cycle stages, from development to disposal, while minimizing environmental impact.
• Proven Project Management skills: Ability to facilitate and support multiple projects, ensure progress and alignment with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Operational Excellence: Proven ability to implement and refine structured processes.

As a person, you thrive in a varied environment. You are detail-oriented, data-driven, and experienced in practical problem-solving, balancing creative ideas with feasibility to ensure solutions are both innovative and implementable.
 

We believe in the good life

In Demant we trust and value professionalism, experience, and commitment. We recognize that to bring energy and inspiration to work, you need to re-energize and spend time with family, friends, and hobbies in a healthy work life balance.
To ensure a good life we offer free breakfast every morning in our canteen, a fitness room including weekly spinning sessions, a massage offer and the possibility to work from home up to two days per week.
 

Want to join the team?

We are looking forward to receiving your application by latest January 5th, 2025. Please apply via our online recruitment system and not by regular email.
In case you have any questions, feel free to contact Senior Director of Marketing Development, Anne-Marie Hasselbalch on arhb@demant.com.

We will begin to invite candidates for interviews after the application deadline. The first-round interviews are scheduled for the 13th and 15th of January. You can expect the final round of interviews to be held on the 20th of January.
We look forward to hearing from you.
 
At Demant we value diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) and we are committed to creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of ethnic background, personality, age, gender, and education. Diversity is part of our cultural DNA. Women in STEM areas are particularly encouraged to apply, as Demant supports United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5 on gender equality. 

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