Packaging Data Analyst Full Time NEW

Founded in Baltimore, MD in 1889 in a room and a cellar by 25-year-old Willoughby McCormick with three employees, McCormick is a global leader in flavour. With over 14,000 employees around the world and more than $6 Billion in annual sales, the Company manufactures, markets, and distributes spices, seasoning mixes, condiments and other flavourful products to the entire food industry, retail outlets, food manufactures, food service businesses and consumers.

While our global headquarters are in the Baltimore, Maryland, USA area, McCormick operates and serves customers from nearly 60 locations in 25 countries and 170 markets in Asia-Pacific, China, Europe, Middle East and Africa, and the Americas, including North, South and Central America

Packaging Data Analyst

You may know McCormick as a global leader in herbs, spices, seasonings, and condiments — but we are also home to a team of packaging professionals dedicated to delivering consumer-preferred, sustainable, and commercially optimized packaging solutions.

The Packaging Data Analyst plays a critical role within the North America Packaging R&D team, ensuring the integrity, accuracy, and lifecycle governance of packaging specifications that enable successful product commercialization.

This role combines systems expertise, data governance, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure packaging master data is accurate, compliant, and operationally ready across SAP platforms. This directly enables speed-to-market, compliance assurance, and operational excellence across our North American portfolio.

Main Responsibilities

Packaging Data Governance & SAP Lifecycle Management

• Own and manage SAP packaging specification lifecycle processes, including creation, modification, approval, release, and obsoletion.
• Ensure proper template selection, standardized nomenclature, completeness, vendor documentation, and regulatory compliance.
• Administer STEP / MDG workflow tasks for assignment of new VERPs / ZPAKs within SAP specifications.
• Maintain high data quality standards through validation, audits, and continuous process improvement.

Commercialization & Cross-Functional Support

• Serve as a primary point of contact for internal and external packaging specification data requests
• Support commercialization timelines by ensuring timely and accurate packaging master data availability.
• Partner with vendors to ensure specification sign-off and documentation completeness.

Capital & Tooling Data Administration

• Initiate and administer Capital Authorization Approvals (CAAPs) related to packaging tooling.
• Track spend and payments for associated projects, providing updates to engineering and finance stakeholders

Process Excellence & Continuous Improvement

• Develop and refine work instructions and standard operating procedures.
• Identify opportunities to streamline specification workflows and improve data accuracy.
• Support onboarding and training of new team members on packaging data processes and systems.

Candidate Profile

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Packaging Engineering, Packaging Science, Supply Chain, Data Management, or related field preferred.
• 3–5 years of experience in food or CPG packaging specifications, packaging materials, or master data management.
• Experience working in ERP environments (SAP strongly preferred; S/4HANA exposure a plus).
• Experience with Master Data Governance (MDG), STEP workflows, or structured specification systems.

Technical Skills

• Strong understanding of packaging materials, formats, and tooling.
• Knowledge of specification lifecycle processes and change control management.
• Advanced Excel skills (data validation, pivot tables, reporting).
• Basic statistical and analytical capabilities to support data integrity and reporting.
• Familiarity with capital project tracking and documentation management.

Professional Competencies

• Exceptional attention to detail with strong analytical problem-solving ability.
• Highly organized, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced R&D environment.
• Systems-oriented thinker with a process discipline mindset.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills (English).
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally and influence stakeholders.

At McCormick, we have over a 100-year legacy based on our “Power of People” principle. This principle fosters an unusually dedicated workforce requiring a culture of respect, recognition, inclusion and collaboration based on the highest ethical value