Senior Packaging Developer - Premium Brands - Geneva

Company	Resource Partnership	Share \|
Salary	c 70,000 Euros + benefits
Location	European (Europe)
Job Type / Hours	Permanent / Full Time
Start Date	Immediate
Date Posted	21/08/2010
Job Reference	ozzle/10 474

Company Summary

Resource Partnership is a recruitment specialist, solely focused on Packaging and Product Branding, with over 19 years experience.

With a prestigious client portfolio, we work with companies throughout the UK, Eire and Europe.

We provide rapid and effective recruitment solutions at all levels with a confidential, professional and attentive service.

Job Description

Education/Qualifcations
Degree level + min 3 years experience of working in packaging development technology for a premium brand/fmcg company. Ambitous, passionate & outgoing candidates would be ideal.

Languages
English: fluent (essential)
French: ideal

Functional Skills :
• Strong technical packaging knowledge
• Manufacturing environment understanding

Business Skills :
• Understanding Premium quality
• English

Leadership Skills :
• Ability to influence
• Ability to communicate
• Willingness to improve technical knowledge
• Be open minded and flexible
• Pro-activity in proposing new constructive ways of work
• Team spirit

PURPOSE OF THE POSITION

Act as a coordinator between the Markets / Marketing (based in London) and production facilities to provide technical expertise, feasibility analysis, cost estimates, and general project management on either new product / packaging, packaging redesigns, or secondary packaging (promotions) in order to ensure that the products they produce and distribute meet company's, customer's and Markets (local and Global) requirements.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

- Provide technical support for packaging operations; Quality, Manufacturing, Procurement, Activity management and R&D
- Work closely with the Project Management team or Supply Chain Managers on packaging projects definitions, projects impact and establish resource requirements, timelines and project budget.
- Develop Bills of Materials for the various packaging component
- Develop accurate specifications for packaging components to enable quotation and Quality Inspections
- Write clear and concise technical protocols and reports on line trials
- Perform Risk analysis and provide recommendations / alternatives
- Develop package test requirements and / or validation procedures for concept, prototyping, initial design phase and final design validation phases
- Ensure that projects milestones and critical path are identified, scheduled and tracked or met.
- Review progress against plans and schedules. Analyze, expose, and resolve deviations with working team to seek resolutions to be back on track
- Execute packaging products and process qualifications protocols and validation package in conjunction with manufacturing and quality teams
- Proactively identify and implement programs to improve the quality and/or efficiency of packaging components and packaging operations. Seeking for innovation through benchmark or supplier/plant visits
- Challenge supplier’s technology and/or timings – suggest alternatives to Marketing
- Artwork management
- Develop the current process in conformity with the ISO process in place
- Customer Focus, support Continuous Improvement and Cost Reductions (value engineering) opportunities

KEY Partners
- Activity Management Director – by providing packaging support to all relevant Brand Innovation Projects and Project Managers. By providing Project Management support when suitable.
- Marketing, local markets (& Agencies) – work to educate on the capabilities of packaging formats , the manufacturing constraints at suppliers, graphics and artwork creation & reproduction/printing process so that the design can be maximize through quality.
- Procurement – all new packaging development MUST comply with Procurement supplier strategy and meet CSR compliance
- Quality – all new packaging development MUST comply with company Global Quality standards
- Innovation – all 3rd party Innovation providers must comply with trading standards contracts for confidentiality & Intellectual Property
(IP) protection
- Manufacturing – work with manufacturing partners to educate, stimulate & harness information on the Brand portfolio.

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