John Steiger Email & Phone Number

Glenview, Il, Us

Northbrook, Illinois, United States

Northbrook, Il

Provide strategic leadership, direction and advanced technical expertise for the Package Engineering Department leveraging experience and knowledge of: Package Technology, Package Design, and Packaging Process Development. Overall package development responsibility covers products developed for the North and South American Continents (Americas Region), plus products packaged locally for other global regions. Led team creating Design Control SOPs for pharmaceutical devices and combination products.

Northbrook, Il

Provide strategic leadership by creating a global strategy for the implementation, governance, and long term sustainability of Astellas' Product Serialization program. Leads global cross functional team defining corporate policy and processes. Interfaces with professional organizations and industry peers to maintain awareness of current and emerging country regulations that may impact product serialization and track & trace requirements.Also provide strategic leadership, and advanced technical expertise for the Package Engineering Department leveraging these areas of specialization: Package Technology, Package Design, Serialization, and Packaging Process Development.

Deerfield, Il

• Established Packaging Engineering department for Astellas US.• Collaborated with departments to resolve many outstanding issues ranging from transit damage to shipping shortages.• Quickly established the reputation of being the person to solve any and all packaging engineering problems. • Started and lead the product serialization program through numerous phases including Strategy development, system selection, system integrator selection, Pilot.• Pilot was successfully completed on time and $1.7Million under budget.

Barrington, Il

• Led development of innovative multi-serve packaging for Tropicana Chilled juices. Establish package design/performance parameters with inputs from various functions, refined designs via focus groups and multiple supplier meetings. • Managing Packaging Laboratory Supervisor and technicians, transforming the laboratory from a data collection service to a development laboratory. Creating a growth opportunity for Laboratory Supervisor; developing and preparing the individual for other opportunities within QTG.• Managed Package Development group for Frito-Lay Convenience Foods, a division of Frito-Lay. Supporting Frito-Lay Convenience Food’s growth objectives by establishing business & packaging strategies, while managing complex projects.• Emphasized the development of direct reports by focusing on career guidance, growth opportunities, and skill development. Successful at having direct report promoted within two years of hire.• Managed printing decoration platform with the purpose of developing and implementing new printing and/or textural concepts for flexibles and paperboard packaging. Implemented the application of high gloss coatings to cartons for new product/flavor introductions.

Barrington, Il

• Challenged prevailing theories on product/package requirements, creating an opportunity to further refine Instant Oatmeal packaging. Project led to a paradigm shift in package requirements for Instant Quaker Oatmeal.Selected as part of small business team for new joint venture between Quaker Oats and Novartis Consumer Health called Altus Food Company. Altus was created to manufacture and market functional foods in North America.• Developed packaging strategy, and lead all package development, design, testing, and commercialization.• Assessed contract manufacturer production capability and determined required changes to their production line equipment to efficiently package our products.• Routinely developed cost analysis comparing various ways to manufacture and package new products. Analysis also included short and long-term advantages and disadvantages.• Project Manager for new line of children’s products. Lead weekly meetings to report progress and resolve issues. • Welcomed additional responsibility as Assistant Marketing Manager for new children’s beverage products. Lead product development by establishing benchmarks, wrote product and target-market definition, and reason to believe statements for early qualitative and quantitative market research testing.

Houston, Tx

• Selected as a member of the Minute Maid – Group DANONE joint venture team, created to expand juice production and sales around the world.• Developed initial packaging for Fruitopia, PowerAde, and Minute Maid hot fill products.• Designed, with bottle manufacture, family of blow molded bottles ranging in size from 16-oz. to 128-oz. Received co-design patent for bottles.• Designed unique blow molded bottle shapes for new juice market. Received co-design patent for shapes selected by the Chief Marketing Officer of the Coca-Cola Company.• Designed new glass bottles, with unique chiseled ice look for Bacardi Mixer products

Mba, Marketing And Finance

Bs, Package Engineering