Director, Packaging Materials Engineering Group

Job Description

Position Summary

The Director, Packaging Materials Engineering Group, is a senior strategic leader with deep expertise in the high-speed beverage packaging manufacturing space. This role carries responsibility for setting the vision, strategy, and governance of all packaging material structures and specifications for CBI’s Beer Division. This leader oversees a team of Managers, each accountable for specific packaging material categories, and ensures fully aligned, forward-looking material strategies across the organization. The Director defines and drives the roadmap for the development, standardization, and continuous advancement of packaging material technologies, enabling both operational excellence and breakthrough product innovation. Critically, this role serves as a catalyst for innovation within the packaging materials domain, championing and advancing differentiated material solutions that elevate product quality, sustainability, and consumer experience. The Director actively identifies and leads the development of next-generation packaging materials that create competitive advantages, strengthen brand distinction, and expand CBI’s portfolio of differentiated SKUs in the marketplace. Equally important, the Director leads cost innovation initiatives within packaging materials—strategically driving value creation through material optimization, design efficiency, and supplier collaboration—while maintaining uncompromising standards for quality and performance across the entire supply chain. The Director partners closely with executive leadership across Production, Quality Assurance, Engineering, and Commercial functions to ensure packaging materials not only meet but consistently exceed performance expectations from manufacturing through to the end consumer. As a key architect of CBI’s material engineering capabilities, the Director, Packaging Materials Engineering Group, plays a pivotal role in building a high-performing organization and institutionalizing innovation, ensuring sustained leadership in how CBI’s products are packaged, protected, and experienced in the market.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team of Packaging Materials Engineering Managers, establishing a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous capability building across all material categories.
• Define and execute the packaging materials strategy, aligning long-term material roadmaps with business objectives, innovation priorities, and new product and packaging initiatives.
• Serve as a key strategic partner to Production, Quality Assurance, Engineering, R&D, and Commercial leadership, ensuring strong alignment and integration of packaging material strategies across the value chain.
• Champion the identification, development, and advancement of innovative packaging material concepts; build compelling business cases and partner with Commercial teams to translate ideas into differentiated market offerings.
• Own the development, validation, standardization, and governance of all packaging material structures and specifications to ensure best-in-class performance from production through consumer use.
• Establish and enforce robust governance frameworks for packaging materials, ensuring full compliance with regulatory requirements and adherence to internal standards for quality, safety, and sustainability.
• Drive cross-functional problem-solving to address material-related performance issues, utilizing >

  Location

  San Antonio, Texas

  Additional Locations

  Job Type

  Full time

  Job Area

  Operations and Production

  The salary range for this role is:

  $147,500.00 - $240,700.00

  This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. Our compensation is based on cost of labor. For remote locations or positions open to multiple locations, the pay range may reflect several US geographic markets, including the lowest geographic market minimum to the highest geographic market maximum. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future. An employee’s pay position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, the prevailing minimum wage for the location, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, any collective bargaining agreements, and business or organizational needs. At Constellation Brands, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at the high end of the range for their role, and compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each position and candidate. We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, 401(k), and any other benefits to eligible employees.

  Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, or any other form of compensation that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

  Equal Opportunity

  Constellation Brands is committed to a continuing program of equal employment opportunity. All persons have equal employment opportunities with Constellation Brands, regardless of their sex, race, color, age, religion, creed, sexual orientation, national origin or citizenship, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), marital status, gender (including gender identity or gender expression), familial status, military or veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related conditions (or any other group or category within the framework of the applicable discrimination laws and regulations).