Packaging Specialist
at Greencore Group
Worksop S80 2RS, , United Kingdom -
Start Date | Expiry Date | Salary | Posted On | Experience | Skills | Telecommute | Sponsor Visa |
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Immediate | 25 Jan, 2025 | Not Specified | 25 Oct, 2024 | N/A | Creativity,Graphic Design,Manufacturing,Photoshop,Cad,Powerpoint,Excel,Ease | No | No |
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Description:
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Lead and cascade market awareness for contribution to creative brainstorming and ideation workshops, as part of the new product development innovation and strategic platform
- Build relationships with new and work with existing packaging suppliers, to explore and develop future horizons, sharing expertise in a trusted way, to drive a business category or customer vision
- Lead initial customer discussions and present new packaging concepts with supportive materials and graphical mock-ups, to build a new product development brief
- Support the PLM process to deliver customer briefs and present packaging concepts or specific requirements, at feasibility, to determine suitability for further development, ahead of first stage customer submissions
- Through the customer submission process, work with suppliers and internal colleagues, to manage expectations and deliver the most effective solution to an agreed critical path, in a robust, viable, manner
- Source off the shelf packaging stock items and associated costings, in line with Greencore specifications and quality standards to support the new product development agenda
- Consult/ support manufacturing factory trials and review the operational output to refine design, ensuring the pack remains fit for purpose, cost effective, efficient and within customer expectations
- Work alongside Purchasing and Technical to develop new packaging substrates or solutions as part of an MIT efficiency savings, global sustainability initiative or market demand
- Be the authority on sustainability in packaging and guide internal stakeholders and customers on that journey (short, medium, and long term), to deliver their CRS agenda in line with latest thinking
- As part of personal development and based on depth of knowledge and expertise, nurture, and support colleagues to strengthen and enhance capabilities within the team
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Ideally educated to degree level
- Experience in leading or working as a team, to deliver innovative, cost effective, packaging solutions, in a fast-paced environment
- Experience of successfully developing sustainable packaging concepts and producing high quality documentation with supporting materials, to presentation standard
- Relevant experience in manufacturing and working in a manufacturing environment
- Experience applying creativity, thinking forward and staying up to date with trends
- Experience managing challenge respectfully
- Analytical, resourceful and commercially minded, able to accurately cost and adapt to a changing brief and the challenges presented
- Has experience in and an interest in graphic design and proficient in the use of Adobe Suite, Photoshop, CAD, PowerPoint, Excel * Is an approachable, good communicator who is at ease with both suppliers and the customer, demonstrating knowledge and expertise
- Will work flexibly dependant on business need and is happy to travel when required
Responsibilities:
To challenge and act as an authority on new packaging formats across all substrates and disciplines including the modification of existing constructions, incorporating the creation of graphical design. To play a key role in communicating customer and Greencore packaging sustainability strategy
REQUIREMENT SUMMARY
Min:N/AMax:5.0 year(s)
Marketing/Advertising/Sales
IT Software - Other
Sales
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Worksop S80 2RS, United Kingdom