Supervisor, Logistics - Dunnage (Packaging Materials)

Further your career at Ball, a world leader in manufacturing sustainable aluminium packaging. Achieve extraordinary things when you join our team, and make a difference in your professional development, the community, and around the globe!

Primary purpose of the position: Ensure availability, sufficiency and proper management for all packaging materials used across company's operation in Brasil and CHARPY. This role supports seamless production, costs and logistics flows by coordinating the supply, movement, and return of dunnage throughout the supply chain.

Essential Responsible Areas:

• Monitor and manage dunnage inventory levels to avoid shortages or excess across multiple locations in South America.
• Coordinate with suppliers, production plants, and logistics teams to ensure timely availability and delivery of packaging materials.
• Develop and implement standard operating procedures for dunnage handling, return, and reuse.
• Ensure compliance with internal standards and external regulations regarding packaging materials.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (procurement, warehouse, planning) to align packaging strategies with production and delivery schedules.
• Analyze dunnage flow data and generate reports to identify improvements in efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
• Oversee the maintenance and condition of reusable packaging to ensure quality and safety.
• Support sustainability initiatives by maximizing reuse and minimizing waste related to packaging.
• Supervise dunnage team, including hiring, training and performance management.

Top 5 outcomes that role drives: 

• Optimize Dunnage Flow across supply chain
• Cost Reduction with strategic Inventory , supplier and customers return management
• Ensure standardize processes and procedures with all stakeholders
• Service level performance to ensure dunnage sufficiency
• Data driven decision making and Operational Visibility

Position Requirement and Competencies:

• Completed Bachelor's Degree in Logistics, Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering or related field.
• Advanced or Fluent English is Mandatory
• Intermediate/Advanced Spanish is desirable
• Experience in People Leadership 
• Experience in MRP/Planning Process
• Experience in Distribution is desirable
• Konwledge of material requirements planning
• Knowledge of inventory management
• Knowledge of costs management 
• Knowledge of Lean process is desirable 
• Skills in data driven decision making
• Skills in regulatory compliance

Ball Corporation is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We actively encourage applications from everybody. All qualified job applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, aboriginality, genetic information, ancestry, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, veteran status, age, political affiliation or any other non-merit characteristic.

When you join Ball you belong to a team of over 16,000 members worldwide. Our products range from infinitely recyclable aluminium cans, cups to aerosol bottles that enable our customers to contribute to a better world.

Each of us has a deep commitment to diversity and inclusion which is the foundation of our culture of belonging.

Everyone at Ball is making a difference by doing what we love. Because what we create may change, but what we will always make is a difference.

Please note the advertised job title might vary from the job title on the contract due to local job title structure and global HR systems.

No agencies please.