Job Title
Packaging Assistant
Location
George House
Employment Type
Full time
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours Per Week
37.5
Salary
Competitive salary plus benefits.
Category
Product Development - SF
Closing Date
20 August 2025
As a Packaging Assistant, you will play a vital role in supporting the Packaging Co-ordinator across all packaging formats within George clothing departments. This position involves close collaboration with internal teams, suppliers, and external stakeholders to ensure packaging is compliant, innovative, and aligned with Brand standards. You’ll contribute to the development and improvement of packaging solutions, manage licensing relationships, and support operational tasks such as quoting and purchase order processing.
You Role
1. Responsible for supporting the Packaging Co-ordinator with all packaging formats across George clothing departments.
2. Respond to queries from internal teams, suppliers and external stakeholders.
3. Support trading teams on recommending new and improved pack formats to support with taxes and legislations.
4. Work with packaging suppliers to mock up pack formats and create new Packaging.
5. Manage License packaging and relationships across DTR Licenses.
6. Arranging quotes and raising POs for re-works.
7. Work with other teams within the sourcing function at key times and to support workload.
Key Responsibilities
8. Creation and assignment of new packaging.
9. Day to day management of supplier/trading team queries.
10. Collect packaging waste data for reporting.
11. Regular engagement with trading teams to brief out new packaging and WOW.
12. Maintenance of Packaging guide.
13. Making sure new pack formats are durable and correct from the supplier.
14. Respond to internal and external queries in a timely manner.
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15. Basic understanding of key packaging materials and formats.
16. Organised and delivers work on time.
17. Adaptable in a fast-paced environment.
18. Excellent communication skills across a broad range of stakeholders.
19. Ability to cover a wider administrative role across the sourcing function
20. Consistency amongst packaging and finding the best solution / innovation available.
Everything you'll love
To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices.Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.
You will also get an excellent benefits package including:
21. Discretionary company bonus
22. Company pension up to 7% matched
23. 15% colleague discount in store and online
24. Free access to wellbeing services such as Wagestream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.
25. Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
26. Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.
We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves