Packaging Discovery Innovation Manager ABJ7042
South East c100k Package
As a Lead packaging innovation manager for a global company, you will head up all packaging innovation activity with a responsibility for the development, validation, and delivery of a portfolio of technical packaging discovery projects. In this pivotal role as Packaging Innovation Manager, you will have expertise and understanding of a broad range of packaging materials, processing technologies and packaging solutions.
As a packaging lead for the company, you will be the go-to expert on packaging materials and processing, with a particular specialism in packaging sustainability, flexible and rigid materials development for the next generation pipeline of packaging for products.
Key Responsibilities
- Responsible for the development, validation, and delivery of a portfolio of technical packaging discovery projects.
- Working closely with the validation projects for the Packaging Development team.
- Define and ideate new discovery projects based on our opportunity spaces (Sustainability, Innovation and reduction of Cost and Complexity)
- The go-to packaging materials and processing expert in the Discovery team, with a particular specialism in packaging sustainability, flexible and rigid materials development, and processing technologies
- Leading scouting activities to find new opportunities in relevant development areas into the discovery project pipeline.
Qualifications / Experience
- Degree BSc/BEng/MChem/MSci), Materials, Engineering, Packaging or product design.
- Exceptional packaging skills to lead all areas within packaging materials, e.g. metals, plastics, paper etc structural packaging and process development.
- Proven experience of leading teams in previous roles required to lead and develop a high performing team in a matrix organisation in industries like FMCG /Food & Beverages/ Healthcare/Pharma/ Biotech /Nutraceuticals/ Medical devices or Key Packaging organisations.
- Commercially aware and able to manage cost and value of projects.
- Excellent inter-personal skills and real drive towards action & delivery.
- Extremely commercially minded and open minded to business transformation and embraces the challenges in different aspects of the role.
- Can clearly identify technical risks and trouble shoot them.
- Can effectively lead the integration of consumer and business needs to deliver projects
Salary dependent on experience - over 100k Package - Bonus: 40% Holiday: 25 days
Pension: 20% contribution
To Apply: Please contact Alison Basson ABJ7042 on (phone number removed), / (phone number removed) or apply to