Want to help us bring happiness to the world? Want to join an ambitious and fast growing global biscuits and confectionery business investing heavily in iconic global brands, infrastructure and people? Then this is the place for you.
As proud bakers and chocolatiers and custodians of iconic global brands, we don’t compromise on the quality of ingredients in our products or on the people we hire. We are looking for entrepreneurial spirits who share our passion for bringing happiness to our consumers and who embody our Winning Traits.
To succeed at pladis you need to be purpose-led, resilient and positive because we expect pace and agility. We insist on collaboration and demand accountability. If that is your thing, then pladis offers global ambition, a clear Vision and roadmap for success, challenge, and unrivalled opportunities to learn and make an impact.
This Senior Packaging Engineer role is responsible for the development and delivery of a new technology capability for pladis that will be critical for unlocking new and differentiating innovation across our packaging portfolio and for driving sustainability initiatives to meet our global packaging targets and agenda.
Innovation through product and packaging development, continuous value improvement and consumer perceived quality superiority vs. competition are critical to delivering the business targets. The role is key in developing and delivering the packaging growth plan for pladis with a specific focus on incremental growth through Packaging. This can be in the form of asset driven innovation and/or new technology. Experience in leading multi-site Packaging programmes and teams are essential, as well as experience in leading packaging material capabilities will be desirable, along with excellent knowledge in sustainable development practices specifically for packaging.
The role holder will be expected to lead packaging related agenda across multiple sites in the UK and Europe. They will need to interface with both the SC and MKT stakeholders and communicate and influence packaging programmes to technical and non-technical audiences with associated business cases and an end-to-end thinking.
The role also requires translating insights into finished Packaging solutions that are Business/Brand/Shopper/Consumer driven and Design/Technology led. Excellent Project Leadership and Stakeholder Management skills are critical to success.
The role requires an individual adept at multi-cultural cross-functional collaboration and who can work effectively with multiple external partners to identify appropriate routes to drive the development of innovative packaging solutions. The incumbent will create a technology development agenda navigating the ambiguity and uncertainty typical of early stage discovery projects.
The ideal candidate will have well-developed core packaging development technical skills, and be able to understand the needs of the business, our consumers & customers, and translate to the needs of the project to ensure relevance to our business and brands. The incumbent will be an intellectually agile and curious self-starter with a drive for action and results. You will have a proven ability to learn new technical understandings and rapidly re-apply that understanding into tangible, practical progress and results.
The Senior Packaging Engineer’s key responsibilities include:
* Supporting in defining and delivering a medium to long term roadmap and aligning an agenda to drive sustainability and productivity.
* Supporting the Global Packaging team (Procurement) to build strong and mid-term Sourcing Strategies.
* Building collaborative relationships with Suppliers to capture the best practices on the market and monitor project implementation.
* Driving Packaging innovation & productivity & expertise (75% of time) and monitoring and implementing the Packaging sustainability roadmap (25% of time).
The key responsibilities also include:
* Defining and developing the Packaging sustainability roadmap for pladis.
* Embedding this roadmap within the Packaging Category Sourcing Strategies.
* Working closely with regional R&D teams around our sustainability roadmap while monitoring progress in every region.
* Delivering regular sustainability workshops with key suppliers.
* Creating reports to demonstrate the progress made on our sustainable packaging roadmap.
* Contributing to the elaboration of the Category Sourcing Strategy regarding Materials Productivity.
* Participating in regular productivity workshops with factories and suppliers.
* Building thought leadership & best practice.
* Managing projects and project guidelines for worldwide projects.
* Contributing to the ongoing development of the methodology to approve Packaging suppliers and materials.
* Building and maintaining a strong external network of partners, collaborators, and consultants.
pladis is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to hiring a diverse workforce. All openings will be filled based on qualifications without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, veteran status, disability, age, religion or any other classification protected by law.
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