Performance Improvement Leader
Pubblicato il 27-10-2026 - Sealed Air in Milano
Sealed Air designs and delivers packaging solutions that protect essential goods transported worldwide, preserve food, enable e-commerce and digital connectivity, and help create a global supply chain that is touchless, safer, less wasteful, and more resilient. We strive to foster a caring, high-performance growth culture that will deliver consistent, sustainable profitable growth and accelerate our performance – a culture where accountability is clear and aligned, and where we reward business outcomes and impact. That culture guides everything we do, including how we partner with our customers and suppliers, how we attract and retain top talent, and how we create and deliver value to our stakeholders. In ****, Sealed Air generated $5.4 billion in sales and has approximately 16,100 employees who serve customers in 119 countries/territories. To learn more, visit .
What does a Performance Improvement Leader do?
The Performance Improvement Leader is a transformational change leader responsible for accelerating operational excellence and driving sustainable business performance across the Passirana plant. This role challenges existing ways of working, inspires teams to embrace change, and leads the implementation of Lean, digitalization, and Smart Factory initiatives that improve safety, quality, service, productivity, and cost performance.
Working closely with production, engineering, and functional teams, the Performance Improvement Leader combines hands-on shop floor leadership with data-driven decision making to identify opportunities, deliver measurable results, and build a culture of continuous improvement.
Why do we need you?
Lead the plant's performance improvement journey by driving transformational change initiatives that deliver measurable operational and financial results.
Challenge existing processes and ways of working, using strong influencing and stakeholder management skills to build commitment and accelerate adoption of new practices.
Champion Lean methodologies including Kaizen, 5S, SMED, Standard Work, TPM, Value Stream Mapping, and Six Sigma to eliminate losses and improve performance.
Partner with production teams on the shop floor, coaching leaders and operators to sustain a culture of accountability, problem solving, and continuous improvement.
Analyze operational and digital performance data to identify improvement opportunities, prioritize actions, and track results through KPIs.
Act as a key contributor to the site's Smart Factory and digital transformation roadmap, connecting technology, processes, and people to unlock new capabilities.
Facilitate cross-functional improvement projects, bringing structure, project management discipline, and a results-oriented mindset to complex challenges.
Develop organizational capability by training, coaching, and mentoring teams in Lean principles, operational excellence tools, and change leadership.
Qualifications
Master's degree in Engineering, preferably Industrial, Manufacturing, or Management Engineering, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Experience leading operational excellence, continuous improvement, Lean manufacturing, or business transformation initiatives in a manufacturing environment. Green Belt certification is a plus.
Experience with Smart Factory, Industry 4.0, MES systems, automation, or digital manufacturing environments.
Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate data into actionable improvement opportunities and business results.
Excellent communication, facilitation, coaching, and leadership skills, with the ability to engage teams at all levels of the organization.
Hands-on "Go and See" mindset, comfortable spending significant time on the shop floor to understand processes and support teams directly. The role is designed around approximately 70% shop floor presence and 30% office-based activities
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Relocation: No
Sealed Air is committed to attracting, selecting, and developing talent that reflects the diversity of the communities and customers we serve. We take pride in our selection process to identify, infuse, and grow talent to align with our culture, values, and norms. Sealed Air prioritizes talent development, fostering a culture of continuous growth and career progression. The company is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment and to all employees, without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, protected disability, veteran status, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.
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