Are you passionate about technical packaging innovation and bringing great products to life?
We're looking for a Packaging Technologist to join our NPD team, driving the technical development of packaging across a portfolio of premium spirits brands. You'll work collaboratively with Marketing, Operations, Supply Chain and external supplier partners to deliver innovative, sustainable and commercially successful packaging solutions.
If you have hands-on packaging development experience, thrive in cross-functional teams and enjoy solving technical challenges, we'd love to hear from you.
Key Responsibilities
- Effective delivery of new product development projects managing our key brands through packaging development activities.
- Provide technical packaging expertise to Marketing, Operations and Supply Chain teams.
- Provide commercial guidance on packaging development in accordance with our stage gate process.
- Be first point of contact for on-line technical packaging support to the production, quality & engineering teams, to ensure that quality and operational issues are dealt with quickly and effectively.
- Lead improvement projects to increase efficiency of existing packaging.
- Support the technical packaging specification management system and manage artwork approval workflows.
- Build effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Achieve set KPIs.
- Continuously seek improvement.
- Lead and participate in root cause problem solving activities.
Attributes and Skills
Minimum Qualifications
- Degree-level Qualification (or working towards a relevant degree)
Relevant Working Experience
- Proven track record of successful development and implementation of packaging initiatives, preferably but not limited to, the Spirits or FMCG sector.
Skills
- Experience working with SAP (or a similar ERP system) and Adobe is preferable, experience with Monday.com or a similar project management system would be a bonus.
- Technical experience working across multiple materials and packaging components (glass, closures, paper, corrugate etc.)
- Understanding of sustainable packaging formats and reporting would be beneficial.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Methodical and highly organised with good prioritisation skills.
- Experience working in and managing cross functional project teams.
