Packaging Technologist
Location - Deeside / Hybrid working (determined by the needs of the workload, projects and client meetings, but with a minimum of 2 - 3 days per week onsite)
Hours - 8am - 5pm, with 30 minutes for lunch
Salary - depends on experience
Benefits -
- 25 days holiday a year, plus bank holidays
- Private Healthcare provision following successful probationary period
- PRB scheme
Overview - You will be responsible for the delivery of Own Brand Packaging on shelf for a fast paced and dynamic client, with a scope that covers technical aspects, including fit for purpose, quality, on-time and accurate packaging specification. You will drive supplier provision and client approval of physical packaging associated with NPD and EPD, in-line with the client's stage gate process. You will work with all stakeholders to deliver to a set of best working practices that ensures timely and accurate delivery of all services to this client and ensure all expectations are met.
Company -Working for a global packaging and branding agency on one of their major FMCG retail clients
The role -
- Engage with and drive supplier interaction on packaging for NPD/ EPD activity.
- Build, manage and report on project-based approach.
- Lead basic day to day packaging agenda within NPD/ EPD gate process and engage with cross functional stakeholders to provide support in delivering packaging project activity.
- Communicate accurately, with credibility to internal and external stakeholders.
- Liaise with key external client partners (product and packaging suppliers) and shape activity to meet client packaging needs.
- Product & Packaging briefing - Working with Trading managers and product suppliers to ensure suppliers are briefed with clear packaging and print requirements including timings for NPD and EPD
- Product and Packaging review - Working with Trading Managers, suppliers and packaging suppliers to ensure packaging sample submission to the brief in-line with product submissions. Manage the feedback on samples for further iterative packaging development as required.
- Product and Packaging sign-off - Working with Trading Managers, suppliers and packaging suppliers to ensure packaging sample submission to the brief, in-line with product submissions for sign-off. Post product and packaging sign-off
- Ensuring correct packaging specification on all systems.
- Print and packaging assurance vs requirements through to launch.
- Ongoing to manage any packaging quality issues with actions and outputs through to completion and close out with relevant internal and external stakeholders.
- Work collaboratively with the Trading, Merchandising, Technical, Development and Packaging Innovation teams.
- Stakeholder engagement will be with, but not exclusive to: Trading Managers, Packaging Innovation, Program and Packaging Delivery Manager, Packaging Artwork Project Managers, Packaging Design Team, Product suppliers, Packaging suppliers, Packaging material suppliers.
Qualifications/Requirements -
- Basic experience in a packaging role.
- Demonstrable professional experience working to manage packaging across a range of substrates/ materials and product categories
- Previous exposure to FMCG environment
- Driven - delivers at pace
- Excellent communicator, at all levels, who is organised and calm under pressure
- Friendly, approachable and flexible
- Must be capable of removing barriers effectively
- Team player
- An openness to change and challenge, as well as ability to think out of the box
- Ability to multitask and prioritise time allocation across multiple stakeholder groups and active tasks.
- Tenaciousness, positivity, flexibility, confidence and determination are all vital attributes for this role.
Interviews are being conducted as soon as possible for this vacancy, so if you are interested please get in touch as soon as possible and register your details with us
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Key words; packaging, packaging technologist, packaging development, NPD , new product development
