Packaging Technology Manager - Midlands - £37-45k Basic + benefits

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 :-

Head of Packaging recruitment - Greg Nelson -

Head of Print recruitment-Neil Pearson -

Head Paper recruitment - Gary Young -

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 a good match to skill set and experience becomes available.

Responsibilities

Leading a team of packaging technologists and artwork administrators, you will drive the identification of optimised packaging solutions that underpin the future of products globally. You will develop new products in line with launch plans building key relationships with suppliers, manufacturing partners and brand colleagues. You will have direct accountability for identifying differentiated packaging solutions and effectively managing all the packaging technical due diligence & in-market compliance associated with ensuring the product meets its cost, performance and quality requirements prior to implementation.

Qualifications

What you'll need to have.

We're looking for really great people, with a winning mentality. It's all about working together as one great team - after all it's our people that are at the heart of our business. It's a fantastic opportunity to add to your own development, and a chance to learn more about us as a business. We are looking for a science graduate with a minimum five years experience of packaging development within the FMCG industry with excellent track record of development and delivery of new packaging formats from concept to market. Experience of developing new tools for components in terms of injection moulding, injection stretch blow moulding, extrusion blow moulding & associated decoration methods is preferred.

You'll be passionate about packaging development, have an extensive external technical network and an excellent track record of identifying, developing and delivering new packaging opportunities. You will have the ability to work within a multi-functional team, effectively building relationships and translating packaging solutions for the wider team.

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We prefer MS Word format (.doc or .docx)

Being the largest recruitment company in print, packaging and paper we receive new vacancies on a daily basis. The software we use to "skill match" can "read" a word document but not a PDF. You will be considered for many more positions if your CV is in word format.

The following section is OPTIONAL however if you have the time it would help tremendously in us matching you to over 300 positions (the average number we have at any one time).