As a Purchasing Specialist, you will play a key role in managing packaging development projects for various Cosmetics and Toiletries brands, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure successful product commercialisation. Your focus will be on sourcing, compliance, and process optimisation, working alongside sales, technical, and production teams to deliver high-quality, cost-effective packaging solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Collaborate with sales, technical, and production teams to develop new product innovations and renovations, ensuring market compliance and on-time delivery.
2. Stay updated on environmental packaging legislation and adjust existing processes to meet regulatory requirements.
3. Assess and manage the capabilities of packaging suppliers and materials, ensuring compliance with customer specifications.
4. Lead cost-saving initiatives and process improvements in packaging operations.
5. Manage artwork reviews, product codes, pallet plans, and barcode label creation to ensure seamless packaging execution.
6. Attend production line trials and troubleshoot packaging issues as needed.
7. Provide monthly reporting of Plastic Packaging Tax to HMRC and maintain packaging compliance data.
Qualifications:
8. Technical background in packaging with knowledge of different pack formats and their benefits and risks.
9. Experience working with cross-functional teams, including supply chain, manufacturing, and product development.
10. Experience in blow-mould, packaging creation, and artwork reviews is highly desirable.
11. Previous experience in the cosmetics or healthcare industries is a plus.
Key Competencies:
12. Strong communication and teamwork skills.
13. Self-motivated with excellent time management and project management abilities.
14. Enthusiastic, adaptable, and detail-oriented with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
Core Benefits of Working for DCS Group:
15. Life Cover
16. Pension
17. Medical Cash Plan
18. Cycle to Work Scheme
19. Well-being Initiatives
20. Social Events
About DCS Group:
DCS Group is the UK’s leading Distributor, Manufacturer, and Exporter of Health, Beauty, and Household products. We partner with world-renowned brands such as Procter & Gamble, Unilever, Kenvue, and PZ Cussons. Operating from our 26-acre Banbury Head Office and our state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Redditch, we are proud of our family-owned values and 30 years of consecutive growth.
Join a dynamic team and contribute to delivering top-tier packaging solutions for global brands. If you're excited about the opportunity to make a tangible impact, we’d love to hear from you!