We have an exciting opening for a Beauty Packaging Technologist to join a leading High street Retailer.
Role Purpose
To actively contribute in the development and implementation of Beauty NPD strategy.
Responsibility for the management of all suppliers to ensure technical and legal compliance of all packaging.
Communicate and ensure implementation of best industry practice is followed in all projects within the Buying team
Demonstrate exceptional communication skills and confidently work throughout the supply chain as well as internally at head office.
Key Responsibilities include
Deliver the product innovation strategy, from a packaging perspective, driving commercial customer focussed benefit and in line with business unit priorities and legal requirements.
Keep up-to-date with the latest packaging industries trends in materials, components, print and product formats and feed these into NPD / existing product development.
Influence sourcing and product improvement strategies and improve Supplier’s portfolio.
Support management of & delivery of margin improvement to meet the needs of the business.
Work with buying team to ensure all suppliers have full understanding of briefs. Delivering clear specifications on product briefs, packaging formats, packaging testing requirement, sustainability, legal policies and best practices.
Develop and approve fit for purpose packaging formats ensuring quality and innovation is embedded into the products as well as legal and compliant
Ensure that all relevant packaging testing documentation is available and accurate.
Benchmark Client’s product against high street competitors ensuring a market leading position and feeding into the product development strategy.
Manage adherence to product safety, compliance and ethical standards in line with legislation and corporate policy.
Monitor the voice of our customer around Quality packaging and build into ongoing product development strategy.
Approve 1st product / component production on products / ranges of high risk in the UK, Europe and Far- East as required.
Carry out ongoing cost engineering at development stage to ensure all products are optimised commercially.
In the event of quality failure, work alongside the technical teams to collate data, approve and implement course of action.
Maintaining up to date standards on internal systems by using in depth industry knowledge, to protect the Client’s brand and values
Key Skills required
Relevant experience in the field of beauty manufacture and related packaging and print technologies.
Experience with customer facing carton construction, decoration and sourcing.
Ability to work independently across multiple projects simultaneous
Multi tasked orientated working to tight deadlines while maintaining entrepreneurialism
Excellent communication skills across functions, internally and externally.
Capable of interpreting customer data to shape future product development strategy.
Experience of briefing and specifying NPD projects with Buying to create product briefs
Ability to work across varied supply base harnessing strengths and minimising weakness across of individual vendors
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