Packaging Manager

Overview

Are you a “foodie” and love cookies, muffins and pancakes? Are you looking for a company where we place high value on teamwork, collaboration, and innovation? If you want to gain experience and grow your career with a successful international company, we want to hear from you!

Cerelia Bakery Canada (Formerly English Bay Batter) is currently looking to add some awesome new team members to our facility in Mississauga, ON.

About Cerelia Bakery Canada : We develop and produce high-quality products including fresh & frozen cookie dough and muffin batter in pre-portion sizes and scoop-and-bake pails for the foodservice industry as well as in-store bakeries of North American grocery, mass and club stores. Our baked gourmet cookies and muffins are produced for distribution through multiple channels, including quick service restaurants. Refrigerated products include cookie, pastry and biscuit dough sold to North American grocery stores in formats including canister, chub, break-and-bake, and place-and-bake. Our Research and Development is ongoing, aimed at introducing new products to complement our bakery lines. We are an aggressive, flexible company dedicated to quality and meeting customer needs and marketplace demands. We are growing, and as we grow, our team members grow with us.

The Role

The Packaging Manager leads all packaging strategy, development, optimization, and lifecycle management for Cérélia Toronto. This role ensures that packaging components—from primary retail packaging to secondary and tertiary cases—are designed, sourced, cost-optimized, compliant, and work well in our manufacturing environment. The Packaging Manager acts as the organization’s subject-matter expert for structural packaging development, sustainability, EPR compliance, packaging specifications and sourcing with suppliers, BOM governance for pack components, and intelligence. The role directly influences customer satisfaction, regulatory compliance, and corporate sustainability goals through rigorous packaging development and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end development, testing, and launch of primary, secondary, and tertiary packaging, including engineering reviews, trials, ship tests, shelf-life validation, and first production runs
• Drive cost, performance, and sustainability optimization through value engineering, material changes, alternate suppliers, and sustainable packaging solutions aligned with CSR and EPR requirements
• Own packaging BOMs, specifications, labels, and master data across ERP, TraceGains, customer portals, and supplier systems, ensuring accurate costing, version control, traceability, and audit readiness
• Establish and maintain case, pallet, and label standards (including Domino / master case labels), providing cross-functional guidance and training
• Source, qualify, and manage packaging suppliers and printers, supporting negotiations on pricing, MOQs, lead times, and tooling
• Ensure supplier execution and availability by managing print quality, production runs, ETAs, risk escalation, and plant supply continuity
• Lead artwork development and print approval from concept to release, coordinating agencies, printers, customers, and internal stakeholders
• Ensure compliance with CFIA, FDA, bilingual labeling, nutrition, allergen, UPC, and GTIN requirements
• Act as the primary packaging subject-matter expert, supporting operations with runability issues, print defects, structural failures, launches, transitions, samples, and specification changes
• Manage packaging inventory transitions and lifecycles to minimize obsolescence, mitigate shortages, and support accurate forecasting and continuity of supply
• Lead packaging sustainability and EPR reporting, providing data and documentation to support corporate CSR KPIs and regulatory obligations in Canada and the U.S

Qualifications

Benefits

If you are eager and excited to work with a company driven by quality, commitment to excellence, and an awesome product, we want to hear from you!

Job Type : Full-time

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