Senior Packaging Development Engineer - London - £Highly Competitive Salary

Job Title: Senior Packaging Development Engineer

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 a good match to skill set and experience becomes available.

An opportunity has arisen to work with one of the world's most well-known companies.

The Senior Packaging Development Engineer will support all of this company's customers within the designated EU cluster and associated markets in regards to the development of sustainable and commercially appropriate packaging solutions.

This role will require you to provide functional (Project Management and Packaging Development) and subject matter expertise in guiding customers though appropriate legislative requirements and in delivering packaging technology solutions & innovation programs inline with the Category Strategy.

You will be expected to build and maintain supplier relationships to extract best in class solutions for customers, both functionally and commercially.

We are looking for a team player who shows a high level of collaboration, working cross functionally within all organisational touch points such as Vendor Management, Category, Sustainability, Commercial, Quality Assurance & Graphics.

This Senior Packaging Development Engineer role requires the ability to lead significant, multi-phase packaging development programs with a cross-functional teams including from preliminary concept development, testing and validation through national commercialisation / execution.

• 5+ years in packaging technology and/or business/packaging strategy development
• Strong technical competencies in packaging science including knowledge of substrates, structural design and manufacturing processes
• Experience with project management tasks and timeline development
• Ability to connect abstract thoughts and ideas and materialize into an actionable long-term packaging strategy
• Experience working with multi-functional teams to formulate objectives and action plans
• Analytical approach to problem solving and decision making
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills
• Experience in Foods, QSR, FMCG or Packaging manufacturing / converting industry (preferred)
• Knowledge of packaging forms, coatings & conversion processes (preferred)

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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).