This is a strategically critical role responsible for leading the holistic review and long-term strategy for Pizza Hut’s packaging across the region, ensuring it delivers on brand, cost, and sustainability ambitions. The role owns regional sustainability efforts within supply chain – embedding compliance with evolving environmental regulations into sourcing and reporting – and leads the smallwares category end-to-end.
Sitting at the intersection of commercial, brand, technical, and sustainability agendas, this leader will drive competitive advantage by future-proofing our packaging portfolio, staying ahead of regulatory change, and delivering value across a complex, multi-market franchise system.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Packaging strategy & holistic review:
- 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.
Sustainability & regulatory leadership:
- 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.
Commercial & stakeholder leadership:
- 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.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- 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, and a 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, and high intellectual curiosity.
WORKING RELATIONSHIPS:
- Regional and global supply chain teams
- Regional brand and marketing leaders
- Technical / FSQA / food innovation teams
- Sustainability / ESG function
- Finance and strategy leads
- Packaging suppliers, 3rd party partners / consultants
The posted salary range is the expected salary range for this position. Ultimately, in determining pay, we’ll consider the successful candidate’s location, experience, and other job-related factors.
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