Our Client, a market leader of beauty, household, and personal care products has a vacancy for a Packaging Technologist. The position, forming part of the Global R&D team and reporting into the Senior Manager, provides an excellent opportunity to apply your skills across a broad range of products whilst developing sustainable packaging solutions.
Purpose of Role
Responsible to identify and deliver cost reduction or value improvement packaging opportunities across the product portfolio and deliver against specified financial targets. Own the development and engineering of projects to ensure functionality, quality and sustainable solutions while delivering value to the business against critical deadlines.
Key influencers / Partnerships
This position partners with Senior Manager, Global Engineers and Supply Chain Leads within Value Engineering.
Very closely linked to Production teams in multiple geographies.
Key stakeholders including Marketing, Innovation teams
Strong supplier relationships
Key Accountabilities
To support the R&D Value Engineering department to deliver value improvement projects across multiple categories with day to day tasks
Support the Package Engineering function to implement value improvement projects across the portfolio to deliver against aggressive cost savings targets. .
Work with Global Marketing, NPI, Sourcing and Supply Chain teams to ensure on time and on cost delivery of projects escalating risks and developing mitigation plans.
Engage with Sourcing and work with component vendors to ensure functional specifications are met.
Responsible for the compilation and drawing up of design and functional specifications for assigned projects, products and components.
Collaborate with Global Engineering leads to grow a commercially competitive product portfolio worldwide ensuring strict quality guidelines are met.
Qualifications required
Candidates should have an HND or Engineering / Packaging related degree and / or
Institute of Packaging (IOP) Diploma minimum
Skills & Experience required
Previous experience in Packaging Development in Cosmetics, Pharma or FMCG is essential for this role
Ability to read and interpret technical and CAD drawings essential
Familiarity with CD CAD programs i.e. Solidworks an advantage
Extensive knowledge base of both suppliers and technology
Ability to deliver against multiple deadlines and conflicting priorities
Ability to resolve complex problems relating to cost, quality and speed of implementation
Takes a solution based approach
Excellent communication skills to resolve issues and drive for results