Job Description

Quality Packaging Manager
Location: Eppelheim, Germany

Join our team in Eppelheim and play a key role in ensuring the highest standards of packaging quality and food safety. At ADM, you will contribute to delivering excellence to our customers while driving innovation, sustainability, and continuous improvement across our packaging processes.

Department Overview

The Quality Department is dedicated to identifying and eliminating potential risks that may impact the quality of final products. Its mission is to ensure that all processes and requirements of the quality management system are properly implemented and maintained, in order to consistently meet or exceed customer expectations.

Purpose of the Role

The Quality Packaging Manager is responsible for ensuring the quality and food safety of packaging materials and processes, aligning with ADM’s commitment to customer satisfaction.

This role focuses on developing and implementing packaging quality standards in line with legal, regulatory, and internal requirements. By continuously monitoring and optimizing packaging materials and processes—while collaborating closely with the Global Packaging Team—the position aims to reduce customer complaints and improve overall performance.

The role also ensures supplier compliance through structured audit systems, drives continuous improvement initiatives, and manages packaging-related quality issues effectively to enable rapid resolution and long-term prevention.

Accurate documentation and reporting are critical to identifying risks early, ensuring compliance with all applicable regulations (including PPWR), and supporting audit readiness.

Key Responsibilities

PPWR Compliance and Regulatory Requirements

• Implement the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) at the local level
• Ensure recyclability and compliance of all packaging materials
• Coordinate actions related to Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and sustainability

SAP Data Management and PPWR Reporting

• Maintain accurate SAP data in line with PPWR requirements
• Develop and manage master data for packaging materials, recycling rates, and suppliers
• Define interfaces between SAP, central packaging databases, and external reporting systems
• Generate reports and ensure compliance with legal reporting obligations
• Prepare documentation for audits and regulatory authorities

Packaging Database and Specifications
Develop and maintain a centralized packaging database
Integrate packaging specifications into quality processes
Ensure proper documentation for compliance and audits

Incoming Goods Inspection

• Establish quality inspection systems for incoming packaging materials
• Define inspection plans, acceptance criteria, and escalation procedures
• Ensure traceability and database integration

Supplier Audits and Quality Assurance

• Plan and conduct supplier audits
• Evaluate supplier performance and implement improvement actions
• Ensure compliance with ISO 9001, ISO 15378, and GMP standards
• Define and enforce packaging-related processes, including phase-in/phase-out in SAP

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Act as the key contact for packaging-related quality and food safety topics
• Collaborate with the Global Packaging Management Team on technical requirements

Quality Agreements and Coordination

• Develop quality agreements in collaboration with R&D, Production, and Logistics
• Ensure alignment and efficiency across departments
• Claims Management and Problem Solving
• Manage packaging-related claims in collaboration with Procurement
• Lead root cause analysis and corrective actions to improve product quality

City

Heidelberg

State

Baden-Württemberg

Location Country

Germany

Qualifications, Skills, and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Packaging Technology or a related field
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in food safety and quality management, preferably in packaging
• Proven experience in managing packaging projects and processes
• Strong knowledge of packaging regulations and compliance requirements
• Certification in quality management is a plus
• Experience in audits and quality inspections
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook) and SAP
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
• Ability to work effectively under pressure
• Fluent in English (written and spoken)

About ADM

At ADM, we unlock the power of nature to provide access to nutrition worldwide. With industry-advancing innovations, a complete portfolio of ingredients and solutions to meet any taste, and a commitment to sustainability, we give customers an edge in solving the nutritional challenges of today and tomorrow. We’re a global leader in human and animal nutrition and the world’s premier agricultural origination and processing company. Our breadth, depth, insights, facilities and logistical expertise give us unparalleled capabilities to meet needs for food, beverages, health and wellness, and more. From the seed of the idea to the outcome of the solution, we enrich the quality of life the world over. Learn more at www.adm.com.