Packaging Innovation Manager

3 days ago

Andover, United Kingdom ReQuire Consultancy Full time

?_**Are you searching for a career with bags of variety, in an environment that celebrates differences and empowers collaboration, which values individuals and will encourage you to make an impact?**_

Do you want the freedom to explore, and the opportunities to find new ways and to innovate? If so, please read on.

**We are looking for a Packing Innovation Manager** who has a real passion for brand innovation and a desire to do the best job they can. In return, we offer an inspiring package of employee benefits - to show just how much our client valuesyou. This role will offer you the scope for growth and the tools to aim high.
The Packaging Innovation Manager will play a pivotal role in our client's packaging innovation agenda. Driving the identification, development, and implementation of new packaging solutions in our business whilst working towards our Sustainability commitment.

You will work as an integral partner with teams across the business as well as with external supplier partners. The role is required to ensure the delivery of a continuous and future focused pipeline of differentiated, innovative and consumer oriented greatpackaging solutions in the wellbeing beverage and experience space.

You will lead the innovation process for packaging; converting insight, consumer led ideas and unmet needs into feasible and viable solutions. The role requires a hands-on approach and an ability to deliver creative solutions against an ambitious agenda,by finding new ways and thinking differently.

Strong influencing and communications skills are a key enabler to this role, ensuring we can deliver leading edge thinking, with market insight and trend-led needs into actual product packaging.

**Key responsibilities include**:

- Work with Head of Packaging on a clear strategy and process around how to deliver packaging innovation and be able to demonstrate this in practice.
- Bringing proven innovation experience, work with a cross business functional team including Senior Project Managers and Product Development on the up-front innovation process, bringing agile thinking and experimentation to life.
- Identify opportunity spaces for innovation through understanding consumer needs, brand, and business strategy and what is feasible and potentially possible.
- Up to date with trends and latest technical material innovation, join the dots for the 'so what’s’ feeding this into the Head of Packaging’s strategy and strategic planning.
- Build and maintain a network of external expertise through suppliers and institutions.
- Dedicate at least 10% of working time to working on look outside activities to stay fresh and up to date.
- Regular travel and flexibility to work within the needs of different time zones of our key markets.

**Skills & Experiences our client are suggesting are key to succeed in this role**:

- Demonstrable experience of leading packaging innovation programmes, translating NPD insight and briefs into fantastic products resulting in a significant business impact - A track record of success
- Managed and delivered varied and complex packaging projects at the same time.
- Proven ability to work with cross functional teams and external suppliers under tight timings.
- Industry expert knowledge of primary packaging materials.
- Knowledge of how product design can influence packaging design.
- Clear experience of design thinking and holistic product and Packaging development.
- Extensive experience of working with external suppliers and partners to deliver innovative product solutions.
- FMCG experience preferable and/ or evident experience of working in companies with different scales of production.
- Experience of working with different countries and cultures internally and with strategic external partners/ suppliers.
- Evident experience of supply and commercial environment.
- Knowledge of sustainability trends and what is driving the Packaging Industry in this area.
- A natural leader who can inspire others.
- High personal accountability for delivering results.
- Ability to work well under pressure and to tight timescales.
- Ability to multi-task/juggle multiple priorities.
- Clear communicator, both written and oral.
- Strong influencer.
- Track record for delivering on time and to budget.
- Passionate about new trends and developments in food and drink as well as cross category packaging.
- Creative thinker who challenges perceptions about what the packaging future of wellbeing beverages could be.
- Delivers through commercial thinking, understanding the commercial landscape of the business and the market and the impact of their role on this.
- Ability to operate at a strategic level as well as being in the detail of project deliveries.
- Thrives on problem solving.
- Strong self-starter and proactive thinker.
- Ability to build strong, impactful internal and external working relationships.
- Comfortable dealing with ambiguity and a fluid matrix structure.
- Creates strong engagement when presenting to internal stakeholders.
- The role comes with some incredible benefits and an incredibly positive work place culture._

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