We are looking for an R&D; Packaging Senior Specialist to join our Packaging & Materials Division at our Innovation Center in Turin.
The selected candidate will be part of the R&D; Packaging team, with a primary focus on fully buy products, managing external rework activities ensuring compliance with Lavazza quality requirements.
The main mission of the role is to improve industrialization processes at supplier sites, ensuring process predictability, efficiency, and alignment with project timelines, costs, and business requirements. Implement and qualify new suppliers in compliance with existing technical specifications
Optimize current technical specifications, ensuring that all critical parameters are clearly defined, measurable, and monitored to prevent production and quality issues
Attend and support production trials at both supplier facilities and Lavazza manufacturing plants
Validate packaging solutions for new projects, applying relevant testing methods in accordance with established standards and new methodologies
Plan, organize,



and coordinate trials throughout the entire process, from material ordering to the analysis and reporting of post-trial results
Degree in Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, Chemistry, or a related field
~3-6 years of experience in food technology, with a focus on packaging materials and technologies
~ Experience in a Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) environment is considered a plus

✨ Comprehensive welfare package including short working week during summer months
Hybrid working policy (10 days a month remote working)
Access to our corporate gym
A fast paced and dynamic international context
Salary And Benefits
The role is classified at 2°, CCNL Industria Alimentare
Our Group was founded in Turin in 1895, has been owned by the Lavazza family for four generations. As one of the world’s most important coffee roasters, we operate in more than 140 countries through our brands, subsidiaries and distributors, with a total of over 5

📌 PACKAGING SENIOR SPECIALIST (Italia)
🏢 Lavazza Group
📍 Italia