Overview
Our client is a manufacturer of food products, providing unrivalled quality, innovation and service to customers in the UK and overseas. The heavy investment in technology allows them to offer a forward‑thinking, quality‑assured source of supply.
This market leader employs a highly skilled and dedicated workforce. They carefully develop their expertise to ensure that they are able to add value to the business and customers.
Key Responsibilities
Packaging Techniques
- Improve technically and economically the packaging materials in line with the products and the packaging processes.
- Improve technically and economically the overwraps materials in line with the overwrapping processes.
- Take part in the logistics improvements.
- Propose alternative packaging solutions to the manufacturing and sales department.
- Define the new needs of various stakeholders.
- Study costs.
- Validate the proposals with the manufacturing and development departments.
Prospection
- Define precisely internal and external needs.
- Identify the packaging materials suppliers in cooperation with procurement.
- Contact and meet potential packaging materials suppliers in cooperation with procurement.
Management and supervision of the suppliers
- Take part in the supplier approval process in cooperation with Quality and Procurement.
- Take part in the suppliers’ evaluation with Quality and Procurement.
- Take part in the audits of the suppliers.
- Analyse quality issues on packaging materials and take part in the management of litigations with suppliers in cooperation with Quality and Procurement.
Technical skills
- Evaluate the industrial feasibility and reproducibility of packaging processes and solutions.
- Advise appropriate departments on packaging materials to choose and possible optimisations.
- Create and adapt product packaging.
- Organise, monitor and take benefit of industrial trials.
- Anticipate, detect and interpret the technical difficulties.
- Manage team.
- Communicate, read and write technical documentation, reports, notes.
- Use graphic software.
- Translate the results of industrial trials into guidance and procedures.
- Optimise and harmonise the existing packages.
- Negotiate with suppliers, internal or external stakeholders.
- Audit and evaluate new packaging materials, equipment or packaging machines suppliers.
Qualifications
Candidates must have between 3 to 5 years’ experience in the same role within the food industry.
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