Packaging Innovation Specialist

4 months ago

Castleford, United Kingdom Haribo UK Full time

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**Packaging Innovation Technologist**

We have a fantastic new opportunity for a Packaging Innovation Technologist to join our packaging team.

The role of the Technologist would be our in house specialist on packaging, providing a dedicated technical packaging research & development resource for delivering innovation and packaging improvement projects.

**Responsibilities**:

- Role would concentrate on technical packaging development to facilitate the innovation pipeline
- Provide technical packaging solutions to deliver against a consumer led brief
- Technical expert working solely on all packaging related R&D projects
- Working with suppliers and wider HARIBO group to proactively identify new packaging solutions for future innovation
- Proactively work with new and existing suppliers to identify packaging innovations to improve our existing portfolio including; identifying opportunities in line with business requirements such as plastic reduction, cost engineering and consumer led functional improvements. As well as legislative requirements including extended producer responsibility.
- Embraces stakeholder management, including keeping Marketing, Procurement and Production up to date with project progression.
- Responsible for liaising with Operations and Supply Chain to facilitate packaging trials and manage technical roll out to bring innovation to fruition
- Collaborates with Marketing to facilitate the development and launch of NPD through the Stage and Gate process
- Responsible for liaising with global R&D stakeholders to facilitate international collaboration and learning
- Proactively identify opportunities to improve packaging development processes including trial management

Skills / experience:

- Packaging R&D experience within FMCG industry including packaging material expertise
- Proven experience of working on a product concept and providing packaging recommendations on optimum delivery
- Ability to proactively identify and escalate project risks
- R&D project management and delivery of R&D projects in line with launch timings
- Cross functional stakeholder management
- Proactively work with Marketing to identify future pipelines
- Experience of successfully implementing the technical delivery of products in line with innovation platforms
- Understanding of working with a stage and gate process
- Experience of working with consumer research and interpreting research results
- Leading packaging trials and product sign off
- Ability to make commercially based decisions and build business cases for investment sign off
- Problem solver, keen on seeking solutions when feasibility is a challenge

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