Packaging Graphics Project Manager

We have an opportunity for a Project Manager to join a market leader that delivers outstanding packaging solutions to FMCG accounts across the globe.

The Project Manager will be a strategic partner to all stakeholders in the graphics packaging process – the go-to person for executing packaging graphics projects. Serving as an advocate for the brand, you will demonstrate the highest level of ability and skill in all project management capacities and will partner with other key stakeholders to ensure client expectations are satisfied or exceeded.
 

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Full accountability for the packaging project timeline from the point of project inception to plate delivery 
• Work alongside key stakeholders in Marketing, Design, Packaging Development and Print Partners to create and agree the critical path timeline
• Facilitate open and regular communication between key stakeholders to ensure clear understanding of project objectives
• Establish the budget for the project and create an estimate encompassing all costs from design to plates
• Provide reports to key stakeholders to track project milestone timelines and performance to budget
• Attend the monthly category meeting to communicate any risk to project delivery and to be informed of any changes which may impact the timeline
• Ensure milestones are kept on task escalating any blocks for resolution to the Artwork Manager.
• Create and maintain the category activity plan to ensure early visibility of peak volumes and potential clashes
• Maintain a comprehensive knowledge of your business area so challenges and opportunities may be anticipated or avoided, and solutions can be offered quickly
• Educate, train and on-board all new starters with the correct ways of working
• Initiate, foster and maintain positive working relationships with both external and internal clients
• Identify opportunities to drive continuous improvement of the process with the aim of always providing the quickest and most efficient journey to the end goal
• Lead and participate in Post Implementation Reviews, providing project data to highlight areas of learning or improvement for future
• Provide agreed KPI data for category on monthly/quarterly basis
• Manage the Non-Conformance process for any internal errors ensuring full investigation and corrective actions are documented and actioned

EXPERIENCE

• Demonstrates excellent communication ability both written and verbal, and strong listening skills
• Outstanding presentation and customer relationship development skills
• Productive under pressure and hands on when required. Able to work in a fast-paced, hectic environment
• Highly adaptable and flexible with the ability to multi-task and prioritise. Demonstrates good attention to detail 
• Strong planning and time management skills with the ability to develop and execute plans to final completion
• Is an effective, mature, self-aware leader whose style is calm, strong and tenacious as a given situation requires
• Leads and initiates best practice change effectively with the client and is flexible and collaborative in all cross-functional responsibilities
• Idea generator with strong analytical, problem solving, critical thinking and innovative solution capabilities
• Strong collaboration skills, with the ability to work with multiple partners and peers across organisation to achieve project and operational results
• Ability to deal effectively with difficult customer situations displaying a superior level of client service
• Proactive approach, hardworking and commercially aware
• Displays a willingness to learn, develop and improve in knowledge and personal attributes
• Preferably the candidate is from either an FMCG market or print / packaging industry with change management and process development experience
• PC literate – Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat
• Experience of industry web-based briefing and approval systems
• 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 – greg@harrison-scott.co.uk
• Head of Print recruitment–Neil Pearson – neil@harrison-scott.co.uk
• Head 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 contact you in the near future as soon a good match to skill set and experience becomes available.