Packaging Manager

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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