We have a fantastic new opportunity for a Packaging Innovation Technologist to join our packaging team.
The role of the Technologist would be our in house specialist on packaging, providing a dedicated technical packaging research & development resource for delivering innovation and packaging improvement projects.
Responsibilities:
* Role would concentrate on technical packaging development to facilitate the innovation pipeline
* Provide technical packaging solutions to deliver against a consumer led brief
* Technical expert working solely on all packaging related R&D projects
* Working with suppliers and wider HARIBO group to proactively identify new packaging solutions for future innovation
* Proactively work with new and existing suppliers to identify packaging innovations to improve our existing portfolio including; identifying opportunities in line with business requirements such as plastic reduction, cost engineering and consumer led functional improvements. As well as legislative requirements including extended producer responsibility.
* Embraces stakeholder management, including keeping Marketing, Procurement and Production up to date with project progression.
* Responsible for liaising with Operations and Supply Chain to facilitate packaging trials and manage technical roll out to bring innovation to fruition
* Collaborates with Marketing to facilitate the development and launch of NPD through the Stage and Gate process
* Responsible for liaising with global R&D stakeholders to facilitate international collaboration and learning
* Proactively identify opportunities to improve packaging development processes including trial management
Skills / experience:
* Packaging R&D experience within FMCG industry including packaging material expertise
* Proven experience of working on a product concept and providing packaging recommendations on optimum delivery
* Ability to proactively identify and escalate project risks
* R&D project management and delivery of R&D projects in line with launch timings
* Cross functional stakeholder management
* Proactively work with Marketing to identify future pipelines
* Experience of successfully implementing the technical delivery of products in line with innovation platforms
* Understanding of working with a stage and gate process
* Experience of working with consumer research and interpreting research results
* Leading packaging trials and product sign off
* Ability to make commercially based decisions and build business cases for investment sign off
* Problem solver, keen on seeking solutions when feasibility is a challenge
If this role sounds of interest to you, and you would like to put yourself in the mix.. Apply at the link below.