Packaging Manager - London - £55k to £60k basic + benefits

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

Candidates must have between 3 to 5 years' experience in the same role within the food industry.