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About the Role

This role is strategically critical, responsible for leading the holistic review and long-term strategy for Pizza Hut’s packaging across the region. It ensures the packaging delivers on brand, cost, and sustainability ambitions, and owns regional sustainability efforts within supply chain, embedding compliance with environmental regulations and leading the smallwares category end-to-end. This leader will drive competitive advantage by future-proofing the packaging portfolio, staying ahead of regulatory change, and delivering value across a complex, multi-market franchise system.

Responsibilities

Lead the holistic, region-wide review of Pizza Hut’s packaging portfolio, developing a clear multi-year strategy that balances brand experience, cost, functionality, and sustainability.
Drive specification harmonisation and optimisation across markets in close partnership with regional brand and technical teams, unlocking scale and efficiency without compromising quality or brand standards.
Build compelling business cases for packaging innovation and redesign that improve franchisee economics, reduce cost, and strengthen the customer experience.
Own regulatory tracking, readiness, and reporting for packaging and related categories, including EPR / PPWR / plastics and recyclability regulations, ensuring the business stays ahead of and compliant with evolving requirements across markets.
Partner with technical, legal, and franchise teams to translate regulatory change into practical, commercially sound action plans.
Own strategic supplier relationships in scope, leading negotiations and building partnerships that make Pizza Hut a customer of choice and unlock value and growth.
Serve as a trusted advisor to brand, technical, and regional leadership, influencing decisions and challenging the status quo to drive change.
Drive governance, compliance, and adherence to Pizza Hut standards across all areas of ownership.

Requirements

An “own your future” and growth mindset – self-driven, resilient, and continuously seeking to learn, improve, and take ownership of outcomes.
6+ years’ experience in supply chain, procurement, or category management, ideally within food, retail, or a related industry.
Strong experience in packaging, including development, sourcing, or category management.
Solid working knowledge of sustainability and packaging regulation.
Proven strategic mindset – able to lead a holistic review, set long-term direction, and translate it into action.
Sharp commercial and financial acumen, with a track record of delivering value through negotiation and supplier partnership.
Excellent partnership and influencing skills, with the ability to work effectively with brand, technical, and external partners and gain buy-in at all levels.
Strong analytical skills, comfortable leveraging spend analytics and data-driven decision-making.
Strong communication skills, including presentation, verbal, and written skills.
High intellectual curiosity.

Skills

Packaging development
Packaging sourcing
Category management
Sustainability
Packaging regulation
Negotiation
Supplier partnership
Analytical skills
Spend analytics
Data-driven decision-making
Presentation skills
Verbal communication
Written communication

Experience Level

6+ years