Packaging Compliance Manager - 9 month fixed term contract

Kingfisher; Eastleigh; Hybrid; GBP 52,000 - 72,000; Full time

Job summary

Kingfisher is seeking a Packaging Compliance Manager to lead data compliance initiatives for packaging across our brands, covering a 9-month fixed-term maternity period. The role focuses on delivering data-driven compliance, audits, and documentation to support tax calculations and exemptions.

You will partner with banners, manage cross-functional stakeholders, and define the packaging data strategy. The position supports our hybrid working model with balanced home and office collaboration.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in management and leadership.
• Ability to analyse data and make informed decisions.
• Knowledge of Packaging Data and Quality.
• Proven ability to manage budget.
• Strong communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Deliver the strategy for packaging data compliance, ensuring data is validated so Banners can submit accurate tax calculations and maximise applicable tax exemptions.
• Partner with Retail Banners to support packaging data compliance and help avoid Substances of Concern Packaging compliance issues.
• Help define and deliver the packaging data strategy, including statements of work for packaging data app developments.
• Monitor and report packaging data and supporting evidence, sharing learnings with the broader team to inform future projects and continuous improvement.
• Lead the set-up and close-out of packaging audit cycles, ensuring requirements, timelines, evidence and follow-up actions are clearly defined, tracked and completed.
• Develop strong cross-functional stakeholder networks to drive engagement with packaging processes, vendor education and packaging data compliance requirements.
• Analyse key compliance data to measure performance, identify trends and track progress against agreed KPIs.
• Provide operational support to the wider Packaging function, ensuring compliance requirements are embedded into day-to-day ways of working.
• Support delivery of new Declaration of Conformity requirements through the creation, review and maintenance of relevant documentation.
• Continue to build packaging development knowledge through on-the-job training and collaboration with subject matter experts.

Skills

Management experience

Data analysis

Packaging data & quality

Budget management

Communication skills

Job description

Overview

We’re Kingfisher, A team made up of over 74,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Depot, Castorama and Koctas to life. Guided by our purpose Better Homes. Better Lives. For Everyone. We believe a better world starts with better homes, and we work every day to make that a reality. Join us and help shape the future of home improvement.

The Packaging Compliance Manager will take full accountability for our Packaging data compliance process ensuring the delivery is executed fully and against newly established KPIs developed for the role. *Covering maternity cover, recruiting a 9 month fixed term contract.

What’s the job?

• Deliver the strategy for packaging data compliance, ensuring data is validated so Banners can submit accurate tax calculations and maximise applicable tax exemptions.
• Partner with Retail Banners to support packaging data compliance and help avoid Substances of Concern Packaging compliance issues.
• Help define and deliver the packaging data strategy, including statements of work for packaging data app developments.
• Monitor and report packaging data and supporting evidence, sharing learnings with the broader team to inform future projects and continuous improvement.
• Lead the set-up and close-out of packaging audit cycles, ensuring requirements, timelines, evidence and follow-up actions are clearly defined, tracked and completed.
• Develop strong cross-functional stakeholder networks to drive engagement with packaging processes, vendor education and packaging data compliance requirements.
• Analyse key compliance data to measure performance, identify trends and track progress against agreed KPIs.
• Provide operational support to the wider Packaging function, ensuring compliance requirements are embedded into day-to-day ways of working.
• Support delivery of new Declaration of Conformity requirements through the creation, review and maintenance of relevant documentation.
• Continue to build packaging development knowledge through on-the-job training and collaboration with subject matter experts.

What you’ll bring

• Proven experience in management and leadership
• Ability to analyse data and make informed decisions
• Knowledge of Packaging Data and Quality
• Proven ability to manage budget
• Strong communication skills

How We Work

We believe in flexibility and balance. Our hybrid model blends home working for focus with time spent connecting and collaborating - whether in our offices or at offsite locations. On average, around 60% of your time will involve in-person collaboration.

We value the perspectives new team members bring and encourage you to apply - even if you don’t meet 100% of the requirements.

What We Offer

An inclusive environment where your potential is limited only by your imagination. We encourage new ideas, support experimentation, and strive to create a workplace where everyone can be their best self. Find out more about Diversity & Inclusion at Kingfisher here.

We also offer a competitive benefits package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career. Scroll down below to find out more about our benefits.

Diversity & Inclusion

Our customers come from all walks of life - and so do we. We’re committed to ensuring all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants are treated equally, regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, ethnicity, culture, religion, belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation.

Interested? Great,