Project Manager Packaging (12 month FTC) London, England
Job description
Company Description
We're ASOS. We blend our flair for fashion with our love of cutting-edge technology, but more importantly were interested in how we can bring the best out of you.
We exist to give people the confidence to be whoever they want to be, and that goes for our people too. At ASOS, you're free to be your true self without judgment, and channel your creativity into a platform used by millions.
Through our Fashion with Integrity strategy we are driving diversity, equity and inclusion across every aspect of ASOS and ensuring every ASOSer can be their authentic self at work. We want our people to be whoever they want to be, because we believe people who bring their best selves to work, do their best work.
About the Role
As a major global fashion retailer, ASOS takes its responsibilities to planet and people to the heart of what we do. Our Fashion with Integrity (FWI) programme sets challenging targets and standards to Be Net Zero; Be More Circular; Be Diverse and to Be Transparent. As part of this we look to reduce, reuse, and recycle throughout our manufacturing and supply chains.
The key purpose of this role is to ensure ASOS is meeting its compliance requirements globally for waste and Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) legislation, as well as project managing day-to-day packaging and packaging waste requirements and initiating and delivering projects that maximise value, FWI impact and minimise risk. This will include working with stakeholders to understand requirements, taking these to market and working with our supplier partners to maximise value.
What You’ll be Doing
Build and manage effective relationships
Build and develop trust and collaborative relationships with Procurement, Functional business areas, Compliance Partners, and Suppliers to ensure value is maximised for ASOS.
Category strategy and planning
Work with and support functional stakeholders to develop and deploy leading packaging waste compliance and packaging programmes and projects. Ensure the approach is rigorous, thorough, and innovative.
Be familiar with most drivers and levers of Packaging & Packaging Waste.
Understand the importance of and how to mitigate risk in Packaging Waste, Packaging and Products.
Support and build a deep and current knowledge of the Packaging Waste landscape, providing actionable insights to the Procurement Packaging Team and ASOS community.
Build collaborative partnerships with business stakeholders to ensure the success of Packaging strategy and planning.
Value Delivery
Lead Packaging & Packaging Waste projects to agreed timelines and quality that maximise value delivery.
Ensure necessary administration is carried out diligently, including coordinating the set-up of new suppliers, raising purchase orders, and ensuring suppliers are paid to terms.
Achieve and beat stretching targets.
Be tenacious, maximising value delivery within the Packaging category despite organisational, industry, or regulatory changes of direction and targets.
Responsible for delivering programmes and projects that will maximise value for ASOS within the plan year.
Understand new and innovative measures for value that are recognised by stakeholders.
Team and functional leadership
Be an active team player, showing resilience and flexibility in the context of ongoing organisational evolution.
Understand and contribute to an environment where driving to maximise value, developing talent and achieving high performance is celebrated.
Work with, and develop, junior members of the Procurement team
- Supporting our culture by driving Diversity, Equity & Inclusion strategies.
Who We’d Like to Meet
Great project delivery skills.
Great attention to detail.
Strong collaborator with a passion for sustainability.
Curiosity to explore new ways of achieving goals.
Additional Information
What’s in it for you?
- Employee discount (hello ASOS discount!)
- ASOS Develops (personal development opportunities across the business)
- Employee sample sales
- Access to a huge range of LinkedIn learning materials
- 25 days paid annual leave + an extra day for your birthday
- Discretionary performance related bonus scheme
- Private medical care scheme
- Flexible benefits allowance - which you can choose to take as extra cash, or use towards other benefits
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Our Commitments
We want our people to be whoever they want to be. That’s why we’re committed to creating a truly inclusive culture at ASOS, but how are we doing it?
We’re proud members of Inclusive Companies, are Disability Confident Committed and have signed the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter. We’ve also recently been placed 8th in the Inclusive Top 50 Companies Employer List too.
We have several employee networks that operate as safe spaces, to help support and celebrate our people - find out more here.
Do you need any reasonable adjustments? Our recruitment team will be happy to support you in the best way possible if you feel comfortable raising this. It’s also our policy to interview all candidates with a disability who meet the minimum requirements for roles they have applied to.
If you have any questions about the policies we have in place to support our employees (e.g. our parental leave approach), just let our Talent team know.
