Packaging Solutions Officer, Rome, Italy

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About WFP

The World Food Programme is the world''s largest humanitarian organization saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity, for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change. At WFP, people are at the heart of everything we do and the vision of the future WFP workforce is one of diverse, committed, skilled, and high performing teams, selected on merit, operating in a healthy and inclusive work environment, living WFP''s values (Integrity, Collaboration, Commitment, Humanity, and Inclusion) and working with partners to save and change the lives of those WFP serves. To learn more about WFP, visit our website:

Role

ABOUT PACKAGING SOLUTIONS OFFICER AT WFP. The position is based in Rome and reports to Food Safety and Quality Assurance Chief. The Packaging Solutions Officer leads research, development, and operational packaging initiatives at WFP globally, providing specialized technical support and troubleshooting to the field and manufacturers. The role drives packaging improvements and sustainability, developing and maintaining specifications, and representing WFP in technical partnerships and inter-agency forums to ensure safe, effective, and innovative packaging solutions for humanitarian supply chains.

Key Responsibilities

- Create, update and maintain the packaging specifications to ensure consistency, compliance with WFP standards, and support for operational efficiency.
- Provide packaging development and troubleshooting support to the field and food manufacturers to ensure compliance with quality standards and resolve technical issues.
- Act as the packaging technical support to the field, including assistance to incident response, solving and loss-reduction in topics that include packaging,



ensuring timely and effective solutions to maintain product integrity and minimize operational risks and losses.
- Lead all Research & Development (R&D;) and operational packaging-related workstreams in Headquarters (HQ) to ensure innovative, cost-effective, and sustainable packaging solutions that meet WFP''s quality and safety standards.
- Promote packaging improvements within WFP''s portfolio, aiming to withstand the supply chain conditions, maintain proper shelf-life and ensure food is safe for beneficiary consumption.
- Lead packaging development as part of new projects initiated by WFP''s demand to ensure timely design, testing, and implementation of innovative, safe, and cost-effective packaging solutions that meet operational and quality standards.
- Develop performance parameters to define packaging integrity in food specifications, as well as packaging integrity testing methods and parameters to be applied at manufacturing level and to be used during supplier audits.
- Visit and support manufacturers and downstream operations to troubleshoot, guide and improve packaging.
- Lead packaging-related technical partnerships, including development of scope, technical workstreams, governance, and communication with partners, and alignment with internally-related areas.
- Co-lead technical partnership portfolio for SCOQ''s existing partners, both packaging and non-packaging related, by contributing to strategy building, communication to partners and support to technical discussions to strengthen collaboration and alignment.
- Act as a member of the inter-agency working group (US, UNICEF, MSF, ICRC and ACF), promoting all packaging and sustainability-related workstreams and harmonization initiatives.
- Serve as the WFP packaging expert in internal and external forums.

Notes: This description reflects responsibilities and expectations of the role and does not imply a job offer or guarantee of employment.

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