Jobs at DS Smith

Lead UK logistics strategy execution across transport and warehousing operations. Responsibilities include standardising processes, implementing transport planning practices, managing SLAs, monitoring logistics partners against KPIs, promoting safety, driving continuous improvement, supporting change initiatives, and collaborating with sites, procurement, suppliers, and stakeholders. Regular travel to UK sites is required in a remote-flexible or hybrid role.

Leads DS Smith’s Product Safety Laboratory in Valencia, managing laboratory operations, staff, budget, workflows, quality systems, and regulatory compliance. Performs and oversees analytical chemistry testing using HPLC, GC, ICP, and related methods. Supports R&D through experimental design, data interpretation, troubleshooting, and technical reporting. Acts as the laboratory’s primary technical contact for customers, audits, and internal stakeholders, providing commercially relevant recommendations. Requires expertise in food contact materials, packaging regulations, laboratory management, and Spanish and English communication.

Leads cluster-wide packaging design and innovation strategy, manages a team of packaging designers, and drives customer-focused innovation projects. The role oversees design tools, KPIs, regulatory compliance, testing, and manufacturing alignment while coaching the team and supporting business growth. It requires strong leadership, change management, commercial awareness, communication skills, and willingness to travel up to 50% across sites and customers.

Manages permanent point-of-sale display and packaging programs for FMCG clients, serving as the primary client liaison from briefing and quotation through delivery. Coordinates design, estimating, production, logistics, installation, suppliers, budgets, dashboards, and project timelines. Identifies supply-chain, quality, sustainability, and value-improvement opportunities while supporting profitable account growth and strong client relationships. The hybrid UK role requires occasional travel and extensive knowledge of print, display, retail, and shopper marketing.

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.

Lead customer-facing packaging innovation projects for strategic FMCG accounts, from opportunity identification through implementation. Develop sustainable corrugated packaging solutions, facilitate customer workshops, improve production-line efficiency, support automation and value-engineering initiatives, and deliver measurable cost, efficiency, and sustainability benefits. Collaborate with Sales, Design, Operations, and Innovation teams while managing customer relationships, project pipelines, and continuous improvement activities.

Monitor global cyber threats, analyze intelligence from OSINT, commercial feeds, industry platforms, and dark web tools, and correlate findings with internal security events. Develop KQL queries for threat hunting and investigations, produce intelligence reports and executive briefings, support full-lifecycle incident response and forensic investigations, and strengthen detection capabilities through threat modeling, playbooks, and collaboration with SOC and technology teams.

Coordinates daily logistics and delivery schedules, liaises with hauliers and customers, monitors deliveries, resolves scheduling issues, maintains accurate documentation, and produces logistics performance reports. The role works closely with Sales, Production, Manufacturing, and Account Management teams to ensure efficient service delivery. Strong organization, communication, customer service, geographical knowledge, problem-solving, and Microsoft Office skills are required.

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.

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.

Leads operational management of regional client accounts across print, display, and packaging services. Responsibilities include developing account strategies, managing teams, overseeing project delivery, controlling budgets and margins, coordinating suppliers, driving process improvements, reporting performance, and building long-term client relationships. The role also supports growth initiatives, ensures compliance and service quality, and delivers client and business objectives.

Leads the site Health, Safety, Environmental and Risk function, developing HSER plans, training employees, monitoring performance, managing audits, conducting technical risk assessments, ensuring ISO and legislative compliance, and liaising with regulators, insurers, and central HSER teams. The role drives safety culture, environmental responsibility, continuous improvement, and organizational competence across the business.

Manage client relationships across Poland and Germany as the primary liaison. Oversee end-to-end packaging projects, drive value delivery and profitability, identify supply-chain and packaging improvements, maintain monthly dashboards and reporting, coordinate with internal teams and suppliers, and perform occasional on-site meetings and travel.

Manage client account operations across print, POS, and retail display campaigns, projects, and jobs. Responsibilities include financial and contract performance, cost efficiency, vendor management, service delivery, compliance, reporting, stakeholder support, and continuous improvement. The role also supports new service implementation, develops client proposals, and coordinates multiple campaigns and service lines while balancing commercial objectives and client expectations.

Operate production machinery safely and efficiently within a corrugated packaging division. Meet productivity, performance, and quality targets; complete scheduled cleaning and routine maintenance; report faults, hazards, and safety concerns; and support continuous improvement initiatives. The role requires strong safety awareness, reliability, teamwork, communication, adaptability, attention to detail, and a proactive approach to maintaining high-quality production standards.

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 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.

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.