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Packaging Manager (Spirits – Innovation and Renovation)
Diageo India is hiring a Packaging Manager in Bengaluru to deliver packaging for innovation and renovation projects and limited-edition launches across its spirits portfolio. The role covers material development, vendor coordination, artwork management with FSSAI and legal-metrology label layers, and recycled-content (PCR) glass and plastic transitions.
- Country
- India
- Experience
- 7–10 years
- Salary / stipend
- Pay not disclosed
- Job type
- Full-time
- Work mode
- On-site
- Function
- R&D / product development
Who can apply
Graduate engineer / B.Pharm / B.Des with post-graduation in Packaging
Review the original notice to confirm the requirements. Related degrees are not automatically equivalent; the recruiting organisation decides eligibility.
What you’ll do
- Manage the packaging part of innovation and renovation projects to on-time, in-full, right-first-time targets
- Lead technical development and project management for limited-edition packs
- Administer the artwork management system, including FSSAI, CPCB and Legal Metrology label requirements
- Support and mentor the reprographics resource and deliver artwork adaptations on time
- Approve packaging bills of material within agreed service levels
- Manage all glass and plastic PCR developments and transitions and deliver PCR KPIs
- Coordinate with external partners and internal supply and demand teams
What the employer asks for
- Graduate engineer, B.Pharm or B.Des with post-graduation in Packaging
- 7 to 10 years of relevant packaging experience
- Ability to make fairly independent, business-focused decisions with line and project managers
- Experience handling several interdependent projects with many stakeholders
About the employer
Diageo India (United Spirits) makes and sells spirits brands such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff and McDowell's, with supply and manufacturing sites across India.
How to apply
Read the full notice and follow the instructions on the original application page.
Skills for this role
What employers ask for in R&D / New Product Development roles. named in this notice
- Packaging development
- Artwork management
- FSSAI labelling
- Legal Metrology
- CPCB
- PCR packaging
- New Product Development
- NPD
- R&D
- Product Development
- Formulation
- Reformulation
- Food Scientist
- Sensory evaluation
- Shelf-life study
- Accelerated shelf life
Pay on similar vacancies
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Prepare for the interview
Questions commonly asked for R&D / New Product Development roles. Practise answers with an example and a number.
- Take us through the stage-gate process you would follow for a new product, from brief to launch.
- How do you design a shelf-life study, and which parameters would you track for a bakery or snack product?
- How would you reduce sugar or sodium in a product without losing consumer acceptance?
- Which sensory tests would you use to compare a reformulation against the current product, and why?
- How do you check that a new ingredient is permitted and at what level under FSSAI regulations?
- Tell us about a formulation problem you solved in the lab or pilot plant.
Before you apply
- Read the original notice end to endDates, eligibility and the application route are decided by the employer, not by FSD.
- Tailor your resume to this vacancyMatch the keywords in the requirements. Resume Studio shows what is missing.
- Write a short cover noteTwo or three lines on your most relevant plant, lab or project result, with a number.
- Be ready to talk numbersCurrent CTC, expected CTC and notice period are usually asked in the first call.
Source & editorial check
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Original posting: 2026-11-05
Checked 2026-11-05 · Updated 2026-11-05
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