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Job Title: Packaging Development Manager

Department: Marketing, Sustainability & Innovation

Location: Primarily based at our office/factory in Park Royal (London), with days in our Farringdon office & visits to suppliers

Hours: Monday – Friday, 40 hours per week

The Role:

We are looking for a creative and experienced Packaging Development Manager to join our team and drive packaging innovation from concept to launch. If you're a materials and print fanatic, constantly enhancing your expertise and collaborating with suppliers to achieve the best results, this role is for you. 

Passionate about the power of packaging to elevate both product and brand, you'll also thrive on the challenge of making sure every solution is fit for market—balancing commercial, sustainability, and technical requirements. Responsible packaging use is your mantra, and you'll be a driving force in delivering sustainable solutions that align with Little Moons’ Packaging Sustainability Standards. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as the subject matter expert for packaging formats, materials, and sustainability strategies, guiding internal teams and external partners 

• Inspire the organization with innovative and sustainable packaging solutions including material, structure and finish.  

• Be passionate about all things packaging in trends and in the marketplace, work with suppliers to design inspiring packaging and print solutions to project briefs 

•  Proactively feed into the innovation pipeline and sustainability roadmap for both new and existing products 

• Lead packaging validation trials and transit tests for new and existing packaging development. 

• Define QAS 

•  Provide a hand-over to Operations ahead of 1st production 

• Understand our packaging; know the technical properties and functionality of the packaging materials and packing process used, ensuring they are fit for purpose, and as sustainable as possible 

• Be the champion for packaging sustainability. Own and drive the roadmap to deliver near and long term targets in Little Moons Packaging Sustainability Standards 

• Manage packaging specifications. Support investigation and resolution of non-conformances and packaging quality complaints 

• Support feasibility assessments for the project portfolio, driving packaging process expertise.  

• From trials, proactively flag opportunities in sustainability, cost optimisation and operations within packaging 

• Lead and support collaborative supplier relationships to ensure the best innovations are brought to our business and utilised effectively in packaging development 

• Keep on the pulse of what’s new, relevant, and emerging in packaging (including an awareness of legislation and regulations), using this insight to answer project briefs 

• Manage packaging data for all finished goods formats, supporting with reporting and customer submissions 

• Contribute to the Brighter Future Sustainability Strategy and company's linked OKRs. Support your function  to contribute too 

Essential Requirements: 

• Strong and proven industry experience in a packaging development and/or packaging technical manager role. Having experience in both is preferred  

• Experience of delivering packaging solutions in the food industry  

• Proven project management skills  

• Flair for innovation and creativity 

• Passion for sustainability  

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills 

• Experience working within brand guidelines  

• A can-do self-starter attitude  

• Excited about the prospect of working in an agile and entrepreneurial scaling business 

Benefits:

Little Moons is a fast-growing and dynamic business, the nature of which means roles and responsibilities can change and grow quickly and at scale. We never stand still for long, and for the right person this represents an opportunity to grow and evolve your role and responsibilities with us and to develop your career at pace.

We will provide you with as much support, guidance, and training as you need, and offer the below benefits to boot:

• Medicash, Private Health Scheme & Life Insurance

• Enhanced New Baby Leave available - New parents will be entitled to sixteen weeks off on full pay during the child’s first year of life (available to people who have worked for Little Moons for one year at Week 26 of pregnancy)

• We understand that mental health matters. We partner with Health Assured to provide remote emotional support to team members

• Discretionary annual bonus based on personal & company performance

• Paid sick leave

• Respect, trust, and honesty. Personal and professional maturity is important to us, and we keep each other honest

• To be engaged, you must feel included and valued, so we have built, and nurtured, a culture where inclusiveness is not a buzzword, but a way of being

Our approach to diversity is simple —it’s about embracing everyone, and everyone is welcome at Little Moons.   We are committed to welcoming everyone, regardless of gender identity, orientation or expression.   We are diverse in age, race, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, and perspective. Our diversity fuels our innovation, bring diversity of thought, and connects us closer to our customers and the communities we serve.

All applicants must have the right to work in the United Kingdom.