Job Description
Ready to make your mark in the world of beverages? Join Refresco as a Product Lifecycle Coordinator and become a key player in launching the drinks people love. In this exciting and fast-paced role, you’ll take ownership of product changes from start to finish—coordinating cross-functional teams and managing timelines, budgets, and expectations to ensure every launch, change, or delist runs smoothly.
You’ll be right at the centre of the action, working with teams across the business and external partners to bring innovative new products to life. If you're proactive, detail-driven, and thrive on making things happen, this is your chance to play a vital role in shaping what hits the shelves next.
Product Lifecycle Coordinator
Permanent
Refresco - Kegworth Head Office
Monday – Friday 38 hours, Hybrid
Benefits
* Hybrid working – work 2 days from home
* 10% annual bonus
* An enhanced holiday allowance of 28 days plus bank holidays
* Purchase extra holiday (up to 3 days per year)
* Life assurance
* Access to a 24/7 virtual GP for you and your family
* Access to our brand new employee benefits platform offering discounts, cashback rewards, and access to more optional benefits
* Access to Grocery Aid – for free financial, personal, health and wellbeing support
The role:
Reporting to the Commercialization Manager, the Product Lifecycle Manager ensures timely, on-budget execution of product launches, changes, and delists. This role coordinates internal teams, suppliers, and customers to meet expectations, working closely with NPD, Technical, Purchasing, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and Commercial teams, as well as external partners like printers and design houses.
The role also ensures compliance with soft drink packaging regulations, manages accurate product master data, and oversees artwork creation and approval processes.
* Manage and maintain effective project governance and ensure all product lifecycle projects are tracked and delivered on time and within scope.
* Coordinate cross-functional teams to deliver product launches, changes, and delists, supporting projects from concept through to evaluation.
* Monitor key milestones, maintain accurate project data, and provide regular updates and reporting.
* Ensure timely approvals at each project stage and escalate issues that could impact cost or timelines.
* Support continuous improvement of NPD and change processes, and contribute to strong cross-functional collaboration and ways of working.
About you
We’re looking for a motivated individual with experience in Supply Chain or a related field, ideally within an FMCG manufacturing environment. The ideal candidate will have a proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, coupled with strong communication skills and a proactive, can-do attitude.
Ultimately, we encourage everyone to role model our core values of agility, responsibility, passion, excellence, and entrepreneurship as we believe these are what has made Refresco successful so far.
Find out more about the Refresco Values here: https://www.refresco.co.uk/uk/about/our-values
If you fit this profile and are excited by this opportunity, we would be delighted to hear from you!
About Refresco:
Refresco is the global independent beverage solutions provider for Global, National and Emerging brands, and retailers with production in Europe, North America, and Australia.
Refresco offers an extensive range of product and packaging combinations from juices to carbonated soft drinks and mineral waters in carton, PET, Aseptic PET, cans, and glass.
Refresco continuously searches for new and alternative ways to improve the quality of its products and packaging combinations in line with consumer and customer demand, environmental responsibilities, and market demand.
Refresco is headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and has more than 13,500 employees. www.refresco.com.
Our drinks on every table. That's the Refresco vision. We’re a global business and currently produce 12 billion litres of soft drinks from 64 manufacturing plants in 12 countries and we’re only just getting started.
We’re the proud owners of six drinks manufacturing sites within the UK. Our UK business provides a great place to work for over 1,800 employees, who produce private label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading retailers.
Whether it’s packed in cartons, bottles or cans, we ensure that our products are made to the highest quality standards. Our products get where they need to be when they need to get there to meet the needs of our high-profile customers.
Refresco believes that equal opportunity for all is fundamental to our company's values and all our applicants can expect fairness and transparency in our recruitment process.