Packaging Technologist – South East

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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The Company: My client is a successful run family-owned group of companies that develops, manufactures, distributes, markets and exports pharmaceutical and toiletry products. Rock-solid business relationships, unshakable professionalism, a free thinking work ethos and a frank, open approach to suppliers, customers and staff underpin the entire group.

The Role: Working as the sole packaging development expert it will be your responsibility to develop quality & functional packaging which satisfy the requirements of specific and speculative customer brief; to provide technical support to all related departments; to originate, issue, control and maintain Packaging Component Specifications.; to attend and advise NPD meetings.; to identify, brief, control, carry out and conclude to agreed deadlines required compatibility testing of all packaging components within all NPD & PCP activity; to identify, evaluate and bring to the company new packaging concepts and technologies to deliver innovative leading edge and/or improved efficiencies/cost savings.; to undertake external audits of supplier and third party contractors; to co-ordinate production line trials.; to approve artwork ensuring it is technically correct and uses suitable print methods and liaise with Customers and Design Houses.

Requirements: You will have a minimum of two years packaging development experience within an fmcg environment, a toiletries background would be an advantage. This is a stand alone packaging development role so you must be a self starter with the ability to identify innovation and cost saving opportunities and be able to communicate with both internal and external customers.

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Similar Packaging Development Technologist  jobs we handle:
• Packaging Senior Development Technologist
• Packaging Development Manager
• Packaging Technical Manager
• Packaging Innovation Manager