Jobs at DS Smith

Operate production and material-handling equipment safely while meeting quality, waste, productivity, and customer-service targets. Complete scheduled maintenance and cleaning tasks, follow safe systems of work, report incidents or unsafe behavior, and support continuous improvement initiatives. The role works rotating shifts in a corrugated packaging production environment.

Plan daily production schedules and UK-wide transport operations, including route optimisation, load utilisation, vehicle allocation, and inbound and outbound goods flow. Coordinate with manufacturing, customer service, site teams, and external hauliers to support on-time, in-full delivery. Manage workload peaks, paperwork, system scheduling, transport compliance, and continuous improvement initiatives to reduce bottlenecks and waste.

The Senior Electrical Engineer leads the electrical maintenance team, ensuring compliance with regulations, managing budgets, driving improvements, and mentoring staff.

Support global commercial pricing by analysing customer and supplier data, maintaining pricing models, monitoring raw material indices, automating pricing processes, and partnering with sales, procurement and finance to drive pricing strategy, contract execution and governance.

Provides administrative and operational support for a transport function. Maintains fleet, driver, compliance, and delivery records; debriefs drivers; monitors KPIs, health and safety, drivers’ hours, and on-time performance; liaises with stakeholders; analyzes transport data; and identifies process improvements, cost savings, and efficiency opportunities.

The Logistics Data Analyst will collect, cleanse, standardize, and maintain transport and warehousing data. Responsibilities include managing logistics master data, supporting Transport Management System setup, preparing procurement and tender analyses, developing financial baselines, and creating Excel and Power BI reports. The role also supports UAT, system readiness, GDPR compliance, data governance, and collaboration with logistics, procurement, IT, and external partners.

Support global commercial pricing by analysing customer and supplier data, maintaining pricing models, monitoring raw material indices, driving automation and process improvements, and partnering with sales, procurement and finance to support contract renewals, RFPs and pricing governance.

The Mechanical Maintenance Engineer will perform planned maintenance, respond to breakdowns, diagnose faults, support improvement initiatives, and ensure safety while maintaining machinery at the Kemsley Paper Mill.

Support profitable growth by analysing customer and supplier pricing data, developing and maintaining pricing models, monitoring raw material indices, driving automation and process improvements, managing contract events, and partnering with Sales, Procurement and Finance to inform pricing strategy and ensure governance.

Manage large strategic B2B accounts as a trusted advisor, building client relationships, reviewing products, delivering commercial insights, conducting service reviews, and supporting tenders and proposals. Identify growth opportunities with Design and Innovation teams, develop account plans, negotiate commercially, present to senior stakeholders, and drive revenue. This is a home-based role requiring regular travel across the UK and Ireland.

Production Operative supporting manufacturing, warehouse, and production activities at DS Smith Wirral. Responsibilities include following safe systems of work, reporting incidents, meeting productivity and quality targets, loading and unloading vehicles, feeding machinery, and coordinating with the office. The role requires flexibility, teamwork, communication skills, basic mathematics, and a safety-focused approach. Experience in corrugated board manufacturing, production machinery, FLT operations, and a counterbalance licence are preferred.

Conduct quantitative and fundamental research across European energy and commodity markets. Develop forecasting, econometric, machine learning, stochastic, Monte Carlo, and backtesting models to support trading, hedging, and risk decisions. Build production-quality Python applications, dashboards, and automated data pipelines while maintaining data governance and reproducibility. Present recommendations to senior stakeholders and collaborate across procurement, finance, treasury, IT, and data teams, including ESG and carbon-market analytics.

Leads the regional delivery, commercial performance, and strategic growth of a major global client account. Responsibilities include senior stakeholder management, P&L ownership, forecasting, budgeting, profitability analysis, service governance, continuous improvement, risk management, and performance reporting. The role also leads and develops high-performing international teams, supports innovation and new business opportunities, and ensures exceptional customer outcomes across shopper marketing, retail display, or POS solutions.

Lead end-to-end performance of a strategically important regional global client account. Build senior stakeholder relationships, manage P&L, forecasting, budgeting, profitability, governance, and risk. Develop account growth strategies, improve operational efficiency, deliver innovation, and strengthen customer experience. Lead and develop international teams while partnering cross-functionally on implementations, reviews, audits, and new business opportunities.

Supports HR operations across the employee lifecycle, maintains accurate employee data, responds to HR queries, and produces workforce reports and dashboards. Analyzes people data to identify trends, contributes to process improvements, automation, system enhancements, and HR projects, and supports stakeholder communication and training. Requires advanced Excel, analytical ability, strong organization, data accuracy, and stakeholder management skills. Power BI and HR systems experience are desirable.

Create and deliver original retail marketing, display, and point-of-sale concepts aligned with brand and retailer guidelines. Manage briefs and timelines, support pitches and innovation projects, collaborate with clients and internal teams, monitor industry trends, and improve studio efficiencies. The role requires strong layout, typography, imagery, print-production, and 2D/3D design skills, along with experience translating supplied assets into concepts under tight deadlines.

Oversee planning and management of shipments to ensure finished products are delivered to customers quickly and efficiently. Optimize routing, coordinate carriers, and monitor delivery performance to meet service goals.

Lead pricing strategy, market insight, forecasting and financial analysis for paper, recycling and packaging. Own pricing governance, transfer pricing, margin reporting, budgeting and integrated business planning. Partner with commercial teams to model scenarios, benchmark buying performance, and develop the finance team's commercial capability.

Operate and maintain packaging machinery on a three-shift rota, prioritising health and safety, meeting productivity and quality targets, minimising downtime, completing maintenance and cleaning tasks, and supporting continuous improvement initiatives.

Maintain and grow relationships with key clients by acting as primary contact, coordinating internal teams, preparing reports and forecasts, identifying new business, negotiating contracts, and delivering customized solutions while managing multiple accounts and ensuring client satisfaction.