Packaging Technologist

7 months ago

London, United Kingdom Sainsburys Full time

**Packaging Technologist**
- 230000AU)

The Packaging Innovation Lead is responsible for supporting the development of the Food Business packaging strategy, delivering innovation, safe and legal compliance whilst meeting our sustainability goals and implementing the packaging strategy across the business units. Key to this is driving the value & innovation agenda and ensuring that all our product packaging is appropriate, well sourced and cost effective.

**As a Packaging Innovation Lead you’ll**:

- Agree and deliver the packaging strategy targets and innovative packaging development projects
- Work closely with the cross functional teams internally and within Sainsbury's product and packaging supply base to identify, co-ordinate and report on projects to help deliver our packaging strategy at a category and product level
- Support with initiating, developing and implementing policies, frameworks, training and reporting requirements that enable us to deliver our quality, innovation and legal obligations as well as our sustainability targets
- Ensure that packaging technical specifications are met as part of the SMART process to deliver safe and legal product packaging
- Ensure that relevant and accurate data is captured when undertaking packaging projects
- Manage category teams expectations and understanding of materials and packaging performance in accordance with Sainsburys Material Matrix
- Investigate packaging issues when they arise to identify the root cause of the issue and support with implementing clear complaint reduction action plans with all suppliers and category teams
- Ensure that the commercial aspects of all packaging components are well understood, ensuring our teams are well informed and can therefore negotiate costs effectively
- Keep the business up to date on emerging issues and trends in packaging and materials and contribute to innovation sessions with the relevant teams
- Provide ad-hoc expertise to teams in discussions surrounding materials, packaging and recyclability as well as policies approaches & standards when needed.
- Support first to market packaging innovation through supplier/industry/joint ventures and strategic alliances. Work with legal and trading teams to protect first to market positioning through Intellectual Property, legal patents etc.
- Work with industry experts, including WRAP and INCPEN to identify Research and Development opportunities

**Our Packaging Innovation team would love to see**:

- Degree and/or equivalent qualifications/experience in packaging, product design, food technology
- Comfortable with working in a large customer-focused business, delivering results at rapid pace
- Senior stakeholder management and effectively influencing around an agenda
- Knowledge of relevant networks and stakeholders in the field of packaging
- Capable of providing on-going support to both internal and external stakeholders
- Ability to work flexibly around an evolving agenda
- Project management skills - ability to work to tight deadlines under pressure
- Excellent communication & influencing skills
- Ability to create and maintain good relationships
- Demonstrate the Sainsbury’s Colleague values
- Anticipating risks and opportunities, responding to escalations at pace and coaching others to find solutions based on your expertise
- Adapting your decision making to different levels of ambiguity and urgency
- Ensuring focus on objectives that have the biggest impact and effectively dealing with change
- Accountability and proactivity for supporting and driving results outside your team or division
- Facing into difficult conversations and giving others licence to challenge your perspective
- Creating a positive and consistent impact with internal and external audiences

**Why Sainsbury’s?**

Work-life balance is important to us, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role. We trust them to decide how, where and when they work, combining remote and collaborative working with a flexible approach to hours, giving them plenty of time and space for life outside of work whilst delivering against our business goals.

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**Primary Location**: GB-GB-London

**Work Locations**: Holborn Store Support Centre and Home Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd 33 Holborn London EC1N 2HT

**Job**: Quality and Innovation

**Schedule**: Full-time

**Advertised Salary** competitive + benefits

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