Packaging Manager

This world renowned blue chip organisation seeks an experienced Packaging Development professional with a passion for their field of expertise and the potential to take on a future leadership position. You will challenge the status quo with your energy and drive, influencing those around you championing new ideas. You will be confident in your own ability, self-sufficient and able to work with little supervision/resourcing. Pro-active rather than reactive you will be able to see trends and patterns emerging.

To manage the packaging development process through all NPD stages to deliver both the brand vision and future growth on all new product for specified brand (s).Ensure that existing and new packaging components are fit for purpose and are optimised for consumer appeal, line efficiency, cost and quality.Identify and lead Margin Improvement opportunities for the business.

Lead packaging development through design, develop and implement stages of NPD activity.
Provide technical packaging expertise to the design, artwork, repro and print stages of graphic implementation.
Timely development and handover of key packaging documentation to Manufacturing Standards, including BOM, Component Specifications, Packing Specifications.
Timely approval of packaging proof’s and production standards.

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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.