Packaging and Sustainability Manager

Summary:

We are seeking a Packaging & Sustainability Manager to support the development of packaging across our portfolio. This role will be responsible for leading day-to-day packaging engineering activities while also owning packaging sustainability and ESG initiative tracking.

The ideal candidate is a hands-on Packaging Engineer with 3+ years of experience in a CPG environment, who is comfortable managing multiple priorities, maintaining detailed technical and sustainability data, partnering cross-functionally, and balancing technical, cost, regulatory, and sustainability considerations in a fast-paced organization.

• Reports to: Sr. Packaging & Sustainability Manager
• Location: Remote or Johnson City TN

Key Responsibilities:

• • Lead packaging development and execution for assigned projects from initiation through launch, ensuring alignment with product, brand, regulatory, and sustainability objectives.
  • Develop and maintain packaging specifications, drawings, BOMs, and technical documentation for primary, secondary, and tertiary packaging, including e-comm, retail-ready and club channel packaging formats.
  • Support commercialization activities including qualification planning, line trials, scale-up, and first production runs at internal and external manufacturing sites.
  • Develop and execute packaging test plans, including compatibility, functionality, and shelf-life testing, in partnership with external labs.
  • Proactively identify, troubleshoot, and resolve packaging-related issues during development and commercial production.
  • Partner with Supply Chain and suppliers to evaluate packaging components, materials, and cost-optimization opportunities.
  • Own and maintain centralized trackers for all packaging material specifications, including material type, weights, recyclability status, PCR content, and supplier attributes.
  • Ensure packaging data accuracy and readiness to support sustainability regulations, labeling requirements, and recyclability claims.
  • Support packaging sustainability initiatives, including recyclability improvements, PCR material adoption, material reduction, and supplier engagement.
  • Support setting packaging sustainability targets and tracking progress against goals
  • Assist with sustainability and ESG reporting activities (e.g., CDP Climate and Water disclosures, internal scorecards, supplier questionnaires).
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with Project Management, R&D, Regulatory, Quality, Marketing, Creative, Supply Chain, Operations, and external partners.
  • Ensure packaging solutions meet regulatory, quality, and safety requirements for applicable categories (cosmetics, OTC, etc.).

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Packaging Engineering or a related technical field.
  
  • 3–5+ years of packaging engineering experience in a CPG, consumer health, beauty, OTC, or regulated products environment.
  • Hands-on experience with primary and secondary packaging development and commercialization. Experience supporting retail-ready, shelf-ready, or club channel packaging designs a plus.
  • Experience working with contract manufacturers, packaging suppliers, and external testing labs.
  • Experience owning packaging material specifications, trackers, or sustainability datasets preferred.
  • Experience supporting packaging sustainability initiatives, GHG calculations, or ESG/CDP reporting preferred.
  • Strong technical problem-solving and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects in parallel.
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively across technical and commercial teams.
  • Detail-oriented, proactive, and comfortable operating in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.
• Ability to travel up to 30% to Jonson City TN, Nashville TN, or to our CMOs.

Company Summary:

Revance is a global company developing, producing, and distributing industry-leading, differentiated products across aesthetics, skincare, and therapeutics. Revance drives innovation beyond convention to offer treatment options for individuals across generations. The Company's vision is to redefine excellence in aesthetics, skincare, and therapeutics through science-powered innovation, with an unwavering commitment to its providers, patients, and consumers. Revance's award-winning products are the result of robust research and development, a cornerstone for the Company, driven by renowned scientists. For more information about Revance, please visit us at www.revance.com.

What Revance invests in you:

• Competitive Compensation including base salary and annual performance bonus.
• Flexible PTO, holidays, and parental leave.
• Generous healthcare benefits, HSA match, 401k match, employer paid life and disability insurance, pet insurance, wellness discounts and much more!

This section of the job description is required by the American with Disability Act (ADA). The ADA requires that job descriptions reflect the physical and mental demands required to effectively perform the essential duties of the job. The ADA prohibits employers from discriminating against a "qualified individual with a disability" in all aspects of the employment relationship. A "qualified individual with a disability" is "an individual who meets the education, experience, skill, and other job-related requirements of a position held or desired, and who, with reasonable accommodation, can perform the essential functions of a specified job."

Revance is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment based on merit, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.