Marks and Spencer

Packaging Manager Beauty

Marks and Spencer  •  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Hybrid)  •  2 days ago
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Job Description

We're looking for a passionate and proactive Packaging Manager with Beauty experience to join the team. In this role you'll support the delivery of exceptional quality packaging that will delight our Beauty customers and drive our Plan A initiatives.

Working across both the Packaging and the Beauty teams, alongside technologists, buyers, designers and suppliers, you'll help ensure every products meets our exacting standards for print-quality, compliance, sustainability and performance. You'll need to be detail-driven, curious, and excited by the world of beauty and fragrance.

This is your chance to grow your technical and packaging expertise within a leading UK retailer and contribute to products our customers truly love.

Due to high interest, this role may close earlier than advertised. We recommend applying as soon as possible.

What you’ll do

Your key accountabilities will include

  • Demonstrates technical awareness of technical drawings and mold-designs and approves for production.
  • Industry knowledge enabling ownership of mitigation of packaging, compliance, supplier and commercial risks.
  • Ability to align packaging requirements to supplier manufacturing and production capabilities.
  • Working closing with Packaging Technologists for additional formulation testing requirements – Stability, Compatibility, user trials and claim substantiation
  • Ability to deliver cross-component critical paths from multiple sources, arriving at the manufacturers on time for formulation fill.
  • Knowledge of multiple substrates; plastics, glass, board as well as print techniques applicable to all

Who you are

Your skills and experience will include

  • Beauty Industry knowledge enabling ownership of mitigation of packaging, compliance, supplier and commercial risks.
  • Ability to align packaging requirements to supplier manufacturing and production capabilities.
  • Working closing with Packaging Technologists for additional formulation testing requirements – Stability, Compatibility, user trials and claim substantiation
  • Ability to deliver cross-component critical paths from multiple sources, arriving at the manufacturers on time for formulation fill.
  • Demonstrates technical awareness of Technical drawings and mold-designs and approves for production.
  • Knowledge of multiple substrates; plastics, glass, board as well as print techniques applicable to all

What’s in it for you?

Working at M&S means being part of something bigger - helping to deliver quality, value and service to millions of customers every day. We’re inclusive, fast-moving and always evolving, with a strong sense of purpose and a focus on doing the right thing.

Here are just a few of the benefits that make working here even more rewarding:

  • 20% colleague discount on all M&S products and many third-party brands for you and someone in your household, available once you’ve completed your probation
  • Competitive holiday allowance with the option to buy more
  • Discretionary bonus schemes linked to your performance and ours
  • Strong pension and life assurance to help plan for the future
  • Tailored induction and training to support your development from day one
  • Exclusive perks and savings through our M&S Choices portal
  • Market-leading family policies, including parental, adoption and neonatal leave
  • 24/7 wellbeing support, including virtual GP access and mental health services
  • One paid volunteer day a year to support a cause that matters to you

Everyone’s welcome

We are ambitious about the future of retail. We are disrupting, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We are transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.

We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.

If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.

To stay close to customers, our support teams are in the office three days a week as we believe that skills are developed through collaboration, and that spending time together makes us more creative and connected.

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Marks and Spencer

About Marks and Spencer

At M&S, we're dedicated to being the most trusted retailer, prioritising quality and delivering value. Every day, we bring the magic of M&S to our customers, whenever, wherever and however they want to shop with us.

For over a century, we've set the standard, doing the right thing and embracing innovation. Today, with over 65,000 colleagues serving 32 million customers globally, we're putting quality products at the heart of everything we do.

Tomorrow holds boundless opportunities with us. We're pioneering digital innovation and shaping the future of retail where our values drive every action.

We stay close to customers and colleagues, always curious and connected. Our decisions are bold, our actions ambitious. Transparency is paramount, with straightforward, honest communication. We're constantly innovating, always striving for the best. Our focus is on aiming higher and winning together, combined with wise financial decisions to secure our future.

Join us at M&S to shape the future of retail.

Industry
Retail & Ecommerce
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
London, GB
Year Founded
1884
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