Packaging Compliance Manager

Pentland Brands Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Product discounts

Healthcare support

Gym discounts

Cycle to work scheme

Electric car scheme

Job summary

Pentland Brands Limited is seeking a Packaging Compliance Manager to shift how we embed PPWR, EPR, plastic taxes and recycled-content rules into brand design. You will partner with brand, product and packaging teams to reduce costs and ensure compliant packaging across markets.

You’ll translate complex regulations into practical standards, manage external data partners, and report to the Product Regulatory Compliance Committee. A hybrid UK-based role with global impact, offering strong benefits.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in packaging compliance, EPR, packaging regulation or packaging sustainability, ideally within apparel, footwear or another consumer goods environment.
• 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 the development process.
• 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 PPWR across relevant markets.
• Lead our packaging EPR strategy, ensuring accurate data across markets and schemes.
• Own compliance with plastic taxes and recycled-content requirements, including UK Plastic Packaging Tax and other international rules.
• Develop and maintain practical packaging design standards that reduce compliance costs.
• Partner with brand, product and packaging designers to embed compliance early in design and development.
• Translate complex regulatory requirements into clear, usable guidance for teams.
• Oversee data processing and submissions with Lorax, while keeping internal ownership of strategy.
• Manage relationships with regulators and PROs, ensuring changes are understood and acted upon.
• Monitor emerging packaging legislation and assess potential impact on brands and products.
• Provide packaging compliance updates to support reporting into the Product Regulatory Compliance Committee.

Skills

Packaging compliance

PPWR & EPR

Regulatory translation

Cross-functional collaboration

Vendor management

Analytical skills

Commercial mindset

Regulatory navigation

Job description

We’re Pentland Brands: a global family business behind some of the world’s most iconic active and lifestyle brands. We bring integrity, energy and ambition to our work, setting high standards and striving to deliver great outcomes without ego.

Shape the work behind some of the world’s most loved sport, outdoor and lifestyle brands.

At Pentland Brands, every role helps move our brands forward. Whether you’re supporting our people, improving our systems, growing our commercial performance, strengthening operations or shaping better ways of working, your impact reaches across a portfolio of iconic brands used by consumers around the world.

As our Packaging Compliance Manager, you’ll help shift packaging compliance from a reporting exercise to an integral part of how we design and develop products. Working closely with our brand, product and packaging teams, you’ll embed regulatory requirements earlier in the design process, helping us create better packaging, reduce compliance costs and meet our obligations across global markets.

You’ll take ownership of key areas including PPWR, Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), plastic taxes and recycled-content requirements, combining strong technical knowledge with a practical and commercial approach.

What you’ll be doing:

• 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.

What you’ll bring:

• Strong experience in packaging compliance, EPR, packaging regulation or packaging sustainability, ideally within apparel, footwear or another consumer goods environment.
• 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 the development process.
• 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.

Why Pentland Brands?

Pentland Brands is the name behind some of the world’s best-known sport, outdoor and lifestyle brands, including Speedo, Berghaus, Canterbury, Endura, Ellesse, Kickers and Mitre.

We are a global family business with a clear purpose: pioneering brands that make life better. Across our teams, functions and locations, we work together to create products, experiences and partnerships that help people live more active, confident and positive lives.

Joining Pentland Brands means becoming part of a business where your work can have real reach, across multiple brands, markets, teams and disciplines. It is a place for people who want to contribute, collaborate, improve how things are done and help build the future of brands with heritage, ambition and global impact.

Perks & Benefits

We offer a 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 scheme.

You can find full details of our benefits and perks on our UK Benefits page.

The Interview Process

We want our interview process to feel clear, straightforward, and supportive. If your experience and expectations look like a strong match for the role, here’s what you can expect next:

1. Talent Team Intro Call - A 30-minute video call with our Talent Team to get to know each other, talk through the role and your experience, and answer any questions you have.
2. Experience Interview - A more in-depth interview (usually online) with the hiring manager to explore your skills, experience and approach, and how these align with the role, our principles, and our ways of working.
3. Final Interview - A final in-person interview at our office, focused on deeper discussion and practical application, giving you the chance to meet more of the team and see Pentland Brands in action.