Packaging Technologist

Kairos Recruitment; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday a year

Private Healthcare provision

PRB scheme

Job summary

Kairos Recruitment is seeking a Packaging Technologist for a Deeside-based role with hybrid working. You will manage packaging for NPD/EPD, drive supplier relationships, and lead packaging activities across cross-functional teams to ensure timely and compliant delivery.

The role requires experience in FMCG packaging and strong collaboration skills. The position offers 8am-5pm hours, a hybrid onsite/remote setup, and benefits including 25 days holiday, private healthcare after probation, and a

Qualifications

• Basic packaging experience across substrates/materials and product categories.
• Excellent communication skills at all levels, calm under pressure.
• Strong teamwork and collaboration with multiple stakeholders.
• Ability to multitask and prioritise across groups and tasks.

Responsibilities

• Engage with and drive supplier interaction on packaging for NPD/EPD activity.
• Build, manage and report on a project-based approach.
• Lead day-to-day packaging agenda within NPD/EPD gate process and engage with cross-functional stakeholders.

Skills

Packaging experience

Excellent communicator

Team player

Multitask

Organised

Flexible

Proactive

FMCG exposure

Job description

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.

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