Packaging Technologist

The role involves interacting with all product buying areas, both packaging and product suppliers and will involve travel including Europe.
This job will help support product launches by specifying materials, suppliers and obtaining all sizes so design and artwork can be produced.
You will need to interact with lots of people at different levels in the business, be hands on, deliberate, articulate, organised, speedy and a good planner of projects.
Key Skills required:
Good communication skills
Be able to demonstrate clear approach to problem solving using the appropriate tools and resource.
Be able to Remain focused on priorities while tackling obstacles
Embraces and accelerates change in a fast-paced environment
Knowledge of packaging and artwork management systems (beneficial but not essential as we can train you if you have the qualities mentioned above with a drive to get on)
Be able to request and chase samples for approval while within the timeframe of the Own Label process
A good level of knowledge of the technologies used within the packaging industry.

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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.