Packaging Project Lead

Job Description

- Packaging Project Lead – Skincare - £17.56 per hour - 6 month temporary contract - Role based in Wirral Working for a global FMCG company with some of the most recognisable brands, we are recruiting for an experienced Packaging Project Lead to join their team in Wirral. This is a fantastic opportunity to join the Skin Care Team to help with product development and contribute to the success of the brands globally.Joining our Skin Care EU team means working within a dedicated and ambitious team on the development and upkeep of high impact Global and local specialist brands. We offer an agile and open-minded environment with strong, proactive, passionate thinkers who are constantly seeking to improve purpose in terms of brand, people, sustainability, technology & business growth. As a member of the Packaging team, you will have the chance to collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams, and external partners to create products consumers want and love. Main Accountabilities: 1) Packaging workstream leader on innovation projects, leading project through full end to end processes. 2) Lead the primary and secondary packaging developed for the projects ensuring robust, sustainable, and cost-effective solutions are selected. 3) Lead the development and design of pallet layouts and ensure rigorous assessments are carried out to ensure they meet the supply chain needs. 4) Responsible for all lab testing on the projects including Ecommerce. 5) This role will work closely with other functions, such as procurement and supply chain, to create, develop and deliver product solutions. 6) Work and communicate effectively with different departments and functions to deliver. against the project network timings and identify and manage risks. 7) Write packaging specifications ensuring they meet required standards.KEY REQUIREMENTS • Relevant experience in packaging development preferably on flexible, rigid and corrugate packaging. • Experienced in distribution designs and use of CAPE • Experienced in design and managing testing plans, lab testing, and report writing. • Skilled and comfortable working in a digital environment • A creative, logical, and analytical mind to generate innovative design solutions to technical design problems. • Ability to respond quickly to change in priorities • You will need to be enthusiastic and self-motivated with good verbal and written communication skills. Able to communicate complex engineering and design principles to people at all levels of the business, across different functions.We will consider candidates from a quality/manufacturing background, but they need to have some innovation Project Management experience. Project Management is key – talk to Marketing, Printers, Suppliers and pull it all together. Direct packaging or closely related, e.g. background from flexible plastics (Shrink films, lithography, printing) would be considered. Engineering packaging people would be considered also.This role is not carrying out the design work, more technical project development supported by analytical testing.