Packaging Technologist

Prospex Recruitment; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 46,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday a year

Private Healthcare provision

PRB scheme

Job summary

Prospex Recruitment in Deeside offers a Packaging Technologist role with hybrid working (2-3 days on site). You will manage Own Brand packaging for a major FMCG client, ensuring fit-for-purpose design, quality standards and on-time delivery of packaging specifications.

You will drive supplier interaction for NPD/EPD activity, manage sample submissions and approvals, and coordinate with Trading, Merchandising, Technical, and Packaging teams to meet client needs.

Qualifications

• Basic experience in a packaging role.
• Experience managing packaging across substrates/materials and product categories.
• Exposure to FMCG environments.
• Excellent communicator, organised and calm under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Deliver Own Brand Packaging on shelf for a fast-paced client.
• Drive supplier provision and client approval of packaging for NPD and EPD.
• Lead day-to-day packaging agenda within the NPD/EPD gate process.
• Collaborate with Trading, Merchandising, Technical and Packaging teams.
• Engage with internal and external stakeholders with clear packaging/print requirements.
• Ensure packaging sample submissions align with product submissions and sign-off.

Job description

Packaging Technologist

Location: Deeside / Hybrid working (2 - 3 days per week onsite)

Hours: 8am - 5pm, with 30 minutes for lunch

Salary: DOE

Benefits

• 25 days holiday a year, plus bank holidays
• Private Healthcare provision following successful probationary period
• PRB scheme

Company: Working for a global packaging and branding agency on one of their major FMCG retail clients

Role

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.

• 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.
• Working with Trading managers and product suppliers to ensure suppliers are briefed with clear packaging and print requirements including timings for NPD and EPD
• 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.
• 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.

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.

Key words; packaging technologist, packaging development, NPD , new product development / packaging specialist / structural packaging design / packaging / print / retail / FMCG