Packaging Technologist (Fixed Term Contract)

Are you passionate about technical packaging innovation and bringing great products to life?

We're looking for a Packaging Technologist (12-month Fixed-Term Contract) to join our NPD team, driving the technical development of packaging across a portfolio of premium spirits brands. You'll work collaboratively with Marketing, Operations, Supply Chain and external supplier partners to deliver innovative, sustainable and commercially successful packaging solutions.

If you have hands-on packaging development experience, thrive in cross-functional teams and enjoy solving technical challenges, we'd love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

• Effective delivery of new product development projects managing our key brands through packaging development activities.
• Provide technical packaging expertise to Marketing, Operations and Supply Chain teams.
• Provide commercial guidance on packaging development in accordance with our stage gate process.
• Be first point of contact for on-line technical packaging support to the production, quality & engineering teams, to ensure that quality and operational issues are dealt with quickly and effectively.
• Lead improvement projects to increase efficiency of existing packaging.
• Support the technical packaging specification management system and manage artwork approval workflows.
• Build effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Achieve set KPIs.
• Continuously seek improvement.
• Lead and participate in root cause problem solving activities.

Attributes and Skills

Minimum Qualifications

• Degree-level Qualification (or working towards a relevant degree)

Relevant Working Experience

• Proven track record of successful development and implementation of packaging initiatives, preferably but not limited to, the Spirits or FMCG sector.

Skills

• Experience working with SAP (or a similar ERP system) and Adobe is preferable, experience with Monday.com or a similar project management system would be a bonus.
• Technical experience working across multiple materials and packaging components (glass, closures, paper, corrugate etc.)
• Understanding of sustainable packaging formats and reporting would be beneficial.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Methodical and highly organised with good prioritisation skills.
• Experience working in and managing cross functional project teams.

Please note: We are not accepting applications or CVs from recruitment agencies for this vacancy.

If you do not hear from us within one month of submitting your application, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful. We wish you all the best with your job search and future endeavours.