Packaging Manager / Engineer - Some WFH - West Midlands - Up to £45k pa (depending on experience)

Job Title: Packaging Manager / Engineer - Some WFH

Salary: Up to £45k pa (depending on experience)

This position has now been filled, but has been left on our website as we have other similar vacancies to this on an ongoing basis that might interest you. More importantly, we have vacancies that are not advertised due to their confidential nature therefore it would certainly be in your interest to email your CV, as a word document, depending on which sector you are in, to:

Board level, account management and all levels of sales vacancies -

Our divisional heads will then email your CV internally to the consultant who specialises in your exact sector, for example a category of packaging is cartons, a category of print is print management, in fact we have over 30 specialist categories. Our specialist consultant will contact you if we have a live vacancy that matches, or contact you in the near future as soon as a good match to skill set and experience becomes available.

Opportunity to join one of the UK's best known and most loved brands. Working as part of a cross functional team, you lead RDQ activities to complete packaging design and packaging deployment for innovation/growth projects and productivity projects across multiple geographies with an emphasis on delivering the desired consumer experience.

You will independently coordinate technical work for projects in line with RDQ, marketing and manufacturing requirements, effectively communicating status and risks, and coordinate projects to determine appropriate packaging specification information using sampling and supplier management and pilot plant and factory trials in accordance with good manufacturing practice and HACCP requirements. In this role, you will also develop activities such as packaging design and specifications, scale up, commissioning, etc., and plan for the effective use of resources including the use of external agencies and suppliers. To succeed in this role, you will use your understanding of equipment design and manufacturing processes to ensure that packaging specifications are determined with excellence. You will be accountable for stakeholder management and influencing decisions based on conclusions derived from the analysis and interpretation of results; develop and leverage connections both internally and with the external technical community; and create intellectual property to drive competitive advantage.

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:

• Packaging development and/or packaging deployment, ideally within fast moving consumer goods or consumer packaging goods environment
• Leading teams and influencing cross functional teams
• Planning and delivering multiple priorities
• Proactively identifying complex technical or business problems and creating and implementing solutions
• Influencing senior and cross functional stakeholders verbally and in writing, including writing technical reports
• Coaching and mentoring others
• Championing for consumer needs
• Technical curiosity and collaborative mindset

The role will be responsible for delivering projects across multiple manufacturing sites within Europe, as well as helping to coach and mentor junior members of the Team.

Our client offers an incredible range of benefits inc 50/50 home/office working, option to buy holidays and flexible working.