R&D Packaging Development Manager
Burton's Biscuits
- Batley, West Yorkshire
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Bringing in new opportunities, trends, insights, packaging benchmarking, ensuring the scope of each project is defined, and an NPD brief completed for handover to scale up.
- Supporting the business on short, mid, and long-term developments from concept through to commercialization. (Now, next, Future)
- Leverage expertise inside and outside the organisation to deliver packaging development and new thinking.
- Packaging Innovation days
- Develop new packaging that meet category standards for Quality, Functionality, Cost-Effectiveness, Consumer Acceptance, Stability, Regulatory Compliance, Sustainability, and operational feasibility.
- Accountable for the completion of technical Packaging hand over documents for new products and processes for to the scale-up team.
- Develop and maintains effective working relationships with your key business partners, ensuring leadership and alignment on key business critical projects.
- Packaging WSL (workstream lead) for key FBC brands.
- Artwork approvals for FBC branded portfolio
- Direct reports – 121’s, team meetings, team Objective setting
- A degree level or equivalent in a Packaging / Engineering discipline
- Highly experienced in a packaging role within a FMCG environment, with direct experience of influencing and managing senior stakeholders.
- Experience of managing and leading a team
- An excellence working knowledge of different packaging substrates such as printed flexibles, cartons, tins, corrugated and thermoformed packaging.
- Systems and software knowledge to include Microsoft packages, Adobe Illustrator, Cape, and Apple Systems.
Contract Type Full time
Salary Competitive