Packaging Compliance Lead: PPWR, EPR & Plastic Taxes

PENTLAND; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Discretionary bonus

Hybrid working

Flexible start and finish times

Generous holiday allowance

Product discounts

Sample sales

Enhanced family-friendly policies

Healthcare support

Gym and fitness discounts

Cycle to work scheme and electric car

Job summary

Pentland Brands is seeking a Packaging Compliance Manager to shift packaging compliance from a reporting exercise to an integral part of the design process. You will work with brand, product and packaging teams to embed regulatory requirements early, reducing costs and ensuring global obligations are met.

In this role, you will own PPWR across markets, lead EPR data integrity, and oversee plastics taxes and recycled-content regulations, while translating complex rules into practical guidance for

Qualifications

• Strong experience in packaging compliance, EPR, packaging sustainability.
• Detailed working knowledge of PPWR, UK and EU EPR requirements, plastic taxes and recycled-content regulations.
• Experience translating regulatory requirements into practical standards, processes and guidance for product and/or packaging teams.
• Confidence working directly with designers, product teams and other cross-functional stakeholders, influencing decisions early in development.
• Experience managing third-party compliance, reporting or data partners while maintaining internal ownership and accountability.
• Strong analytical capability and confidence working with complex packaging and compliance data.
• A commercially minded approach, with the ability to identify how better packaging decisions can reduce cost, complexity and regulatory exposure.
• The ability to navigate evolving regulation, interpret what it means for the business and turn it into clear action.

Responsibilities

• Own the implementation and ongoing compliance requirements of the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) across relevant markets.
• Lead our packaging EPR strategy, ensuring accurate, complete and reliable data across markets and schemes.
• Own compliance with plastic taxes and recycled-content requirements, including UK Plastic Packaging Tax, Spain and emerging international requirements.
• Develop and maintain practical packaging design standards that reduce compliance costs and support more sustainable packaging decisions.
• Partner closely with brand, product and packaging designers, embedding compliance requirements into decisions early in the design and development process.
• Translate complex regulatory requirements into clear, usable guidance for design, product and wider business teams.
• Manage Lorax as our multi-country EPR reporting partner, overseeing data processing and submissions while retaining internal ownership of strategy and compliance.
• Own relationships with relevant regulators and Producer Responsibility Organisations (PROs), ensuring requirements and changes are understood and acted upon.
• Monitor emerging packaging legislation and assess the potential commercial and operational impact on our brands and products.
• Provide clear packaging compliance and readiness updates to support reporting into the Product Regulatory Compliance Committee.

Skills

PPWR knowledge

EU EPR knowledge

Packaging regulation

Cross-functional collaboration

Data management

Third-party compliance management

Analytical capability

Commercial mindset

Stakeholder engagement

Regulatory monitoring

Job description

Pentland Brands is seeking a Packaging Compliance Manager to shift packaging compliance from a reporting exercise to an integral part of the design process. You will work with brand, product and packaging teams to embed regulatory requirements early, reducing costs and ensuring global obligations are met.

In this role, you will own PPWR across markets, lead EPR data integrity, and oversee plastics taxes and recycled-content regulations, while translating complex rules into practical guidance for