Packaging Development Manager – Hampshire

This position has now been filled, but has been left on our website as we have other similar vacancies on an ongoing basis.
More importantly, we have vacancies that are not advertised due to their confidential nature. It is therefore in your interest to email your CV, as a Word document, depending on your sector, to:

• Head of Packaging recruitment – Greg Nelson – greg@harrison-scott.co.uk
• Head of Print recruitment – Neil Pearson – neil@harrison-scott.co.uk
• Head of Paper recruitment – Gary Young – gary@harrison-scott.co.uk
• Board level, account management, and all levels of sales vacancies – George Thompson – george@harrison-scott.co.uk

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 in the near future as soon as a good match to your skill set and experience becomes available.

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Designing and delivering primary and secondary packaging solutions for all the product innovations.
Application of project management using stage gate innovation approach.
Managing packaging development innovation and delivery cycle.
Collaborative and clear communication with external suppliers and the commercial team.
Identify technical risks and trouble shoot them, leveraging support when needed from other R&D teams and external suppliers.
Effectively lead the integration of consumer and business needs to deliver innovative and cost efficient packaging solutions.
Leverage all technical capabilities accessible within the technical community to efficiently meet program needs.
Continually seek opportunities to develop more effective and improved packaging solutions for different product formats and supply chains.

Essential requirements

1st degree qualification. A technical degree/qualification would be an advantage.
The job holder will have good packaging development skills but also show agility, personally engaging in developing the appropriate packaging solutions for all new products and getting them ready for commercialisation.
Experience in leading projects leveraging teams of people from diverse technical backgrounds and capabilities, including managing a diverse geographical supplier footprint.
Understanding of broad range packaging materials and packaging solutions. Good understanding of packaging manufacturing processes.
Commercially aware and able to manage both cost and value of projects, including business cases.
Ability to leverage external suppliers across a diverse geographical footprint. Can manage high complexity with sometimes conflicting inter-dependencies.
Creative, entrepreneurial, dynamic, can-do attitude.
Good inter-personal skills and real drive towards action.

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Similar Packaging Development jobs we handle:
• Packaging Senior Development Manager
• Packaging Development Director
• Packaging Head of Development
• Packaging Technical Director