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• Contract Type: Permanent

• Location: Bracknell with hybrid working, expectation to go into the office as and when need be with visits to suppliers

• Salary: £70,000.00 - £103,400.00 per annum

• Partnership Level: 5

Job Requirements

If you are passionate about packaging and food this is the role for you!

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Waitrose Packaging Innovation & Delivery team and are looking for a Manager, Packaging Innovation & delivery.

A key part of this role will be to act as an enabler to effectively test and bring new and emerging packaging trends to market and strengthen Waitrose reputation as an innovator. You will effectively deliver cost effective packaging innovation on strategic Own Brand propositions and category plans and efficient artwork delivery for Own Brand products.

This role would suit someone with a passion for packaging and an ethical and long term approach to

packaging strategies. A passion for continual learning and engaging in an external environment is

Important.

You will have:

• Understanding of legislation and packaging

• Heavy hitting packaging specialist and passionate innovator

• Great connections wide network

• Ability to influence

• Understand legislation and policy for a fast moving business

Key Responsibilities

Including but not limited to:

• Continuously understand the market, trends and customer insight on packaging and identify Own Brand and Innovation opportunities

• Provides a Centre of Expertise for Own Brand packaging

• Identifying and interpreting Global, Customer and Product trends for packaging and applies these appropriately for the Waitrose Brand

• Presenting the strategy and process for key suppliers

• Works collaboratively and provides input to Strategy & Change team on broader

• packaging and CSR direction

• Ability to adapt plans in the context of a fast paced marketplace, identifying opportunities to enhance strategic plans for packaging, identifying barriers/dependencies/enablers and influences the CLT and broader senior stakeholders across the business

Essential skills you’ll need

• 
  Extensive experience in retail environment

• Ability to manage a dotted line team and grow performance

• Experience and understanding of legislation for food and non food packaging

• Experience of artwork, reprographics and print processes

• Artwork & technical online systems experience

Benefits of the Partnership and the role:

• ️ - Full - time working holiday entitlement 25 days holiday, plus public and bank holidays

• • - Excellent work life balance, including focus on well being and flexible working and our marketing leading equal parenthood leave Policy
• • Defined Contribution pension scheme where your contributions will be matched by the Partnership (up to 8% of pay) and, after three years’ service, you’ll receive an additional Partnership contribution of 4% of pay, regardless of whether you pay in or not
• • You’ll get Partnership discount in store and online once you complete Probation. That’s 25% off in John Lewis & Partners (12% off electrical products) and 20% in Waitrose & Partners. You’ll also be able to nominate someone you live with to share your discount
• • Simple cycle to work support scheme
• • We’re really proud of our exclusive hotels based in some of Britain’s most beautiful areas and once you’ve been with us for three months, you’re welcome to explore them

• - Learn more about our extensive range of exciting benefits that you could enjoy when you join us, visit - https://www.jlpjobs.com/about/benefits/

Next Steps

• The application form consists of a CV upload followed by application questions. Please ensure you refresh the page each time you complete a task to ensure you complete everything that you need to in time. (If internal, check your Workday notifications and see further guidance on the PDW under "Internal application process").

• Once you've submitted an application the next steps of the process, if successful, are likely to include a 1 stage interview

• You'll be asked about any adjustments you might need to support the recruitment process. Let us know, and we'll be sure to discuss it with you.

• Thanks for your patience in the meantime and for showing an interest in joining JLP.

• We occasionally close vacancies early in the event we receive a high volume of applications. Therefore, we recommend you apply early
  

You can view a copy of the full job outline here