Overview
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.
Toppings TopCo, LLC and its global subsidiaries and affiliates, including Pizza Hut of America, LLC, PH North America, LLC, and Pizza Hut Services, LLC (collectively, “Pizza Hut”), are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to equity, inclusion, and belonging for all dimensions of diversity. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other protected characteristic. Pizza Hut is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities or special needs.
