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We are currently accepting applications through Thursday, December 31, 2026. The EPR & Packaging Regulatory Consultant is a remote, project-based role with The Uplift Agency, a sustainability and ESG consulting firm. The consultant helps clients navigate complex packaging Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and the EU’s Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR). Key responsibilities include conducting regulatory research, managing packaging data collection, and guiding client readiness activities. Ideal candidates bring 4–7 years of relevant experience, a prior consulting background, and applied expertise across multiple jurisdictions.
Description
Location: Remote
Job Type: Independent Contractor (1099), project-based
Related Experience: Approximately 4–7 years of relevant professional experience, including consulting experience
About The Uplift Agency
The Uplift Agency (Uplift) is a sustainability, social impact and ESG consulting firm working to make business better for people and our planet. We help organizations navigate evolving sustainability expectations and turn complex challenges into practical, actionable work. Our clients are mid- and large-size private companies at various stages of sustainability maturity, operating both domestically and internationally.
Uplift is seeking an experienced EPR & Packaging Regulatory Consultant to join our growing Circularity Team and support client projects focused on packaging Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and the EU’s Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR). This is a project-based consulting opportunity for someone who brings specialized regulatory knowledge, hands-on experience, strong analytical skills, and the ability to help clients translate regulatory information into practical readiness activities.
The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with strong consulting and client engagement skills. They are proactive, detail-oriented, comfortable working independently, and able to translate complex regulatory guidance into clear, actionable guidance. They also take initiative in monitoring related regulatory developments and identifying implications for Uplift’s clients and services.
Responsibilities
EPR & Packaging Regulatory Expertise
- Bring working knowledge of packaging EPR requirements across the US, Canada and Europe, including differences among jurisdictions and how requirements evolve.
- Research and summarize published regulatory requirements, guidance, and updates, with a focus on their potential operational implications for clients.
- Apply prior experience supporting companies with PPWR readiness activities, such as requirements mapping, gap assessments, data needs identification, and implementation planning.
- Identify questions requiring legal interpretation or confirmation of applicability and coordinate with client legal counsel as needed.
- Support Uplift’s EPR and PPWR readiness work while maintaining clear boundaries between regulatory research and operational support, and legal advice.
Packaging Data & Implementation
- Identify packaging data requirements for applicable EPR programs and PPWR-related client assessments, including packaging materials, weights, formats, and other relevant attributes.
- Map existing data sources across product, packaging, procurement, manufacturing, supply chain, and other relevant business functions.
- Develop and improve data collection templates, requests, and instructions to support efficient information gathering from internal teams and suppliers.
- Analyze packaging datasets, assess data completeness and accuracy, reconcile inconsistencies, flag anomalies, and document assumptions and limitations.
- Map internal packaging classifications to relevant regulatory reporting categories and identify opportunities to improve data quality and consistency across jurisdictions.
- Develop and maintain data trackers, quality assurance tools, supporting documentation, and other resources that enable reliable reporting and repeatable processes.
- Identify data gaps and work with clients to determine practical approaches to resolving them and strengthening ongoing data management.
Client Engagement & Enablement
- Work directly with clients to understand their current processes, data availability, organizational responsibilities, and implementation needs.
- Guide client teams through data collection, gap assessment, and readiness activities, making complex regulatory information accessible to non-specialist audiences.
- Facilitate working sessions and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, including sustainability, packaging, procurement, supply chain, operations, and legal teams.
- Work with client legal counsel as needed to clarify legal questions, confirm relevant legal inputs, and ensure operational readiness activities align with counsel’s advice.
- Help clients build internal understanding, ownership, and repeatable processes for managing packaging EPR and PPWR-related activities.
Regulatory Monitoring & Knowledge Management
- Proactively monitor developments in packaging EPR and PPWR, including legislative and regulatory changes, implementation guidance, reporting requirements, and relevant developments from regulatory authorities and Producer Responsibility Organizations (PROs).
- Maintain current trackers, reference materials, and summaries of regulatory developments, noting potential implications for client work and areas that may require further review.
- Assess the potential implications of regulatory developments for Uplift’s clients, existing projects, and service offerings.
- Flag emerging requirements, uncertainties, and questions for Uplift and client teams, escalating legal interpretation and applicability questions to the appropriate counsel.
- Contribute practical insights and updated resources that strengthen Uplift’s ability to support EPR and PPWR readiness projects.
Project Delivery & Collaboration
- Manage assigned workstreams independently, delivering accurate, high-quality work within agreed scope, timelines, and budgets.
- Develop clear, client-ready deliverables, including regulatory matrices, data analysis, gap assessments, implementation plans, and presentations.
- Collaborate with Uplift team members and external specialists to coordinate work and ensure regulatory and technical inputs are appropriately incorporated into client deliverables.
- Communicate progress, outstanding questions, risks, and potential scope considerations proactively.
- Contribute regulatory and technical expertise to the development and refinement of Uplift’s EPR and PPWR services, tools, and methodologies.
Professional Qualifications
- Approximately 4–7 years of relevant experience in packaging EPR, packaging sustainability, regulatory readiness, or a related field.
- Prior consulting experience supporting clients is required, including the ability to manage workstreams, communicate with clients, and deliver practical outputs with limited direction.
- Demonstrated experience supporting packaging EPR work across multiple jurisdictions in the United States, Canada, and/or Europe, with a strong understanding of the variation in requirements across jurisdictions.
- Applied PPWR experience is required. Candidates must have supported a company’s PPWR-related work in a practical capacity.
- Strong analytical skills and experience working with complex datasets, particularly packaging data and associated documentation.
- Experience identifying data gaps, conducting quality checks, reconciling information, and developing organized tracking tools and repeatable processes.
- Ability to research regulatory materials and communicate findings clearly, accurately, and with appropriate acknowledgment of questions requiring legal advice.
- Strong client communication, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, proactive, and comfortable managing multiple project deliverables.
- Broader packaging sustainability experience is a plus.
Experience with packaging sustainability requirements beyond EPR, including other PPWR provisions, is valuable. Experience with packaging recyclability assessments, recycled-content calculations, or packaging design is a plus, but is not required.
Personal Values
- Practical and solutions-oriented: Focuses on helping clients move from information to actionable next steps.
- Collaborative: Works effectively with clients, colleagues, legal counsel, and technical specialists.
- Curious and proactive: Keeps current with regulatory developments and takes initiative to identify relevant changes and questions.
- Clear and thoughtful communicator: Makes complex information understandable while being careful not to overstate conclusions.
- Accountable and adaptable: Takes ownership of deliverables, communicates early about challenges, and adjusts to evolving project needs.
We are currently accepting applications through Thursday, December 31, 2026. The EPR & Packaging Regulatory Consultant is a remote, project-based role with The Uplift Agency, a sustainability and ESG consulting firm. The consultant helps clients navigate complex packaging Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and the EU’s Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR). Key responsibilities include conducting regulatory research, managing packaging data collection, and guiding client readiness activities. Ideal candidates bring 4–7 years of relevant experience, a prior consulting background, and applied expertise across multiple jurisdictions.
Description
Location: Remote
Job Type: Independent Contractor (1099), project-based
Related Experience: Approximately 4–7 years of relevant professional experience, including consulting experience
About The Uplift Agency
The Uplift Agency (Uplift) is a sustainability, social impact and ESG consulting firm working to make business better for people and our planet. We help organizations navigate evolving sustainability expectations and turn complex challenges into practical, actionable work. Our clients are mid- and large-size private companies at various stages of sustainability maturity, operating both domestically and internationally.
Uplift is seeking an experienced EPR & Packaging Regulatory Consultant to join our growing Circularity Team and support client projects focused on packaging Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and the EU’s Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR). This is a project-based consulting opportunity for someone who brings specialized regulatory knowledge, hands-on experience, strong analytical skills, and the ability to help clients translate regulatory information into practical readiness activities.
The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with strong consulting and client engagement skills. They are proactive, detail-oriented, comfortable working independently, and able to translate complex regulatory guidance into clear, actionable guidance. They also take initiative in monitoring related regulatory developments and identifying implications for Uplift’s clients and services.
Responsibilities
EPR & Packaging Regulatory Expertise
- Bring working knowledge of packaging EPR requirements across the US, Canada and Europe, including differences among jurisdictions and how requirements evolve.
- Research and summarize published regulatory requirements, guidance, and updates, with a focus on their potential operational implications for clients.
- Apply prior experience supporting companies with PPWR readiness activities, such as requirements mapping, gap assessments, data needs identification, and implementation planning.
- Identify questions requiring legal interpretation or confirmation of applicability and coordinate with client legal counsel as needed.
- Support Uplift’s EPR and PPWR readiness work while maintaining clear boundaries between regulatory research and operational support, and legal advice.
Packaging Data & Implementation
- Identify packaging data requirements for applicable EPR programs and PPWR-related client assessments, including packaging materials, weights, formats, and other relevant attributes.
- Map existing data sources across product, packaging, procurement, manufacturing, supply chain, and other relevant business functions.
- Develop and improve data collection templates, requests, and instructions to support efficient information gathering from internal teams and suppliers.
- Analyze packaging datasets, assess data completeness and accuracy, reconcile inconsistencies, flag anomalies, and document assumptions and limitations.
- Map internal packaging classifications to relevant regulatory reporting categories and identify opportunities to improve data quality and consistency across jurisdictions.
- Develop and maintain data trackers, quality assurance tools, supporting documentation, and other resources that enable reliable reporting and repeatable processes.
- Identify data gaps and work with clients to determine practical approaches to resolving them and strengthening ongoing data management.
Client Engagement & Enablement
- Work directly with clients to understand their current processes, data availability, organizational responsibilities, and implementation needs.
- Guide client teams through data collection, gap assessment, and readiness activities, making complex regulatory information accessible to non-specialist audiences.
- Facilitate working sessions and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, including sustainability, packaging, procurement, supply chain, operations, and legal teams.
- Work with client legal counsel as needed to clarify legal questions, confirm relevant legal inputs, and ensure operational readiness activities align with counsel’s advice.
- Help clients build internal understanding, ownership, and repeatable processes for managing packaging EPR and PPWR-related activities.
Regulatory Monitoring & Knowledge Management
- Proactively monitor developments in packaging EPR and PPWR, including legislative and regulatory changes, implementation guidance, reporting requirements, and relevant developments from regulatory authorities and Producer Responsibility Organizations (PROs).
- Maintain current trackers, reference materials, and summaries of regulatory developments, noting potential implications for client work and areas that may require further review.
- Assess the potential implications of regulatory developments for Uplift’s clients, existing projects, and service offerings.
- Flag emerging requirements, uncertainties, and questions for Uplift and client teams, escalating legal interpretation and applicability questions to the appropriate counsel.
- Contribute practical insights and updated resources that strengthen Uplift’s ability to support EPR and PPWR readiness projects.
Project Delivery & Collaboration
- Manage assigned workstreams independently, delivering accurate, high-quality work within agreed scope, timelines, and budgets.
- Develop clear, client-ready deliverables, including regulatory matrices, data analysis, gap assessments, implementation plans, and presentations.
- Collaborate with Uplift team members and external specialists to coordinate work and ensure regulatory and technical inputs are appropriately incorporated into client deliverables.
- Communicate progress, outstanding questions, risks, and potential scope considerations proactively.
- Contribute regulatory and technical expertise to the development and refinement of Uplift’s EPR and PPWR services, tools, and methodologies.
Professional Qualifications
- Approximately 4–7 years of relevant experience in packaging EPR, packaging sustainability, regulatory readiness, or a related field.
- Prior consulting experience supporting clients is required, including the ability to manage workstreams, communicate with clients, and deliver practical outputs with limited direction.
- Demonstrated experience supporting packaging EPR work across multiple jurisdictions in the United States, Canada, and/or Europe, with a strong understanding of the variation in requirements across jurisdictions.
- Applied PPWR experience is required. Candidates must have supported a company’s PPWR-related work in a practical capacity.
- Strong analytical skills and experience working with complex datasets, particularly packaging data and associated documentation.
- Experience identifying data gaps, conducting quality checks, reconciling information, and developing organized tracking tools and repeatable processes.
- Ability to research regulatory materials and communicate findings clearly, accurately, and with appropriate acknowledgment of questions requiring legal advice.
- Strong client communication, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, proactive, and comfortable managing multiple project deliverables.
- Broader packaging sustainability experience is a plus.
Experience with packaging sustainability requirements beyond EPR, including other PPWR provisions, is valuable. Experience with packaging recyclability assessments, recycled-content calculations, or packaging design is a plus, but is not required.
Personal Values
- Practical and solutions-oriented: Focuses on helping clients move from information to actionable next steps.
- Collaborative: Works effectively with clients, colleagues, legal counsel, and technical specialists.
- Curious and proactive: Keeps current with regulatory developments and takes initiative to identify relevant changes and questions.
- Clear and thoughtful communicator: Makes complex information understandable while being careful not to overstate conclusions.
- Accountable and adaptable: Takes ownership of deliverables, communicates early about challenges, and adjusts to evolving project needs.
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in packaging consultant jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in packaging science, industrial engineering, or a related technical field
- Hands-on experience with structural packaging design and material selection
- Proficiency in packaging design software such as ArtiosCAD or similar CAD tools
- Knowledge of regulatory standards including ISTA, ASTM, or FDA packaging requirements
- Experience managing packaging projects from concept through production and launch
- Strong client communication skills with the ability to present recommendations to cross-functional teams
Tips for Your Packaging Consultant Job Search
Tailor your resume to packaging outputs
Hiring managers want to see specific deliverables: redesigned packaging lines, cost reductions from material changes, or compliance wins with FDA or ISTA standards. List those outcomes with measurable context rather than listing generic project management duties.
Highlight your software and materials fluency
Job postings for packaging consultants frequently screen for ArtiosCAD, Adobe Illustrator, or TOPS Pro alongside material knowledge like corrugated, flexible film, or rigid plastics. Name the tools and substrates you've actually worked with so your resume clears keyword filters.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists packaging consultant openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target postings by end-market, not just title
A packaging consultant role in pharma will emphasize serialization and cleanroom compliance, while one in e-commerce centers on damage rates and DIM weight optimization. Search by industry vertical so your application speaks directly to what that employer needs.
Prepare a before-and-after portfolio
Bring two or three case studies showing the original packaging problem, your recommended solution, and the outcome. Interviewers in this field respond strongly to visual evidence of structural or graphic changes paired with a clear business rationale.
Negotiate scope alongside compensation
Packaging consultant roles vary widely between independent advisory work and embedded manufacturing support. Before accepting an offer, clarify travel expectations, decision-making authority over suppliers, and whether the role includes prototype or testing budget so you can evaluate the full picture.
Packaging Consultant Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most packaging consultants?
The companies hiring the most packaging consultants right now include Tricorbraun, FLEXPAK, and HCLTech, with the largest share of openings in Texas, Georgia, and Florida, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Consumer goods manufacturers and contract packaging firms tend to post the most consistently throughout the year.
How many packaging consultant jobs are remote?
About 78% of packaging consultant openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, with remote work most common in roles focused on regulatory consulting, sustainability strategy, and graphic standards rather than hands-on structural design or plant floor support, which typically require an on-site presence.
How do you become a packaging consultant?
Most packaging consultants start with a degree in packaging science, industrial engineering, materials science, or a closely related field, then build several years of in-house experience at a manufacturer, retailer, or contract packager. From there, developing a specialty, whether that's sustainable materials, pharmaceutical compliance, or e-commerce damage reduction, makes the transition to consulting much easier. Building a portfolio of documented project outcomes is essential before going independent or applying to consulting firms.
Can you get a packaging consultant job with little experience?
Entry-level packaging consultant roles do exist, particularly at consulting firms that hire recent graduates with packaging science degrees and train them on the job. Without a specialized degree, getting in through a packaging coordinator or technician role at a manufacturer and building hands-on material and project experience is a practical path. Demonstrating proficiency in relevant design software and industry standards like ISTA testing protocols helps close the experience gap early.
What does the packaging consultant interview process look like?
The process typically starts with a recruiter or hiring manager screen focused on your technical background and industry experience. A second round often involves a panel with engineering, marketing, or supply chain stakeholders who want to understand how you approach a packaging brief. Many employers finish with a case study or take-home exercise where you analyze a real packaging challenge and present your recommendation, so having clear, documented examples of past projects ready is essential.
Where can I find and apply to packaging consultant jobs?
You can find and apply to packaging consultant jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Find roles that match your background and apply directly to each listing from the page.
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