Jobs at DS Smith

Produce accurate, timely management reporting and cashflow forecasting for the Americas region. Analyse cash movements, support budgeting and statutory accounts preparation, maintain financial controls, and ensure integrity of regional financial results. Manage and develop a small team, liaise with stakeholders and the Regional Finance Business Partner, and present financial information clearly to varied audiences.

Leads the creative vision, standards, and operating model for a global design studio supporting POS, retail activation, merchandising, and shopper marketing. Builds multidisciplinary teams, develops capabilities, drives AI and automation adoption, advises senior clients, shapes creative strategies, and ensures solutions achieve customer, brand, sustainability, manufacturability, and commercial objectives.

Leads OCC performance, technical improvement, digitalisation, and technology investment across a European paper mill network. The role analyzes operational KPIs, identifies opportunities to improve fibre yield, quality, capacity, energy, and cost, supports major OCC preparation projects, evaluates emerging technologies, manages supplier and RFQ processes, develops CAPEX plans, and coordinates implementation across mills while influencing stakeholders without direct authority.

Leads information technology governance and cyber risk activities, including security awareness training, phishing exercises, cyber scenario simulations, customer security questionnaires, supplier assurance, risk registers, and ISO 27001 control documentation. Advises stakeholders on security standards and regulations, coordinates risk reviews, supports supplier due diligence, and drives continuous improvement across IT and manufacturing environments.

Leads end-to-end performance of a major EMEA client account, managing client relationships, commercial growth, P&L, forecasting, budgeting, profitability, governance, risk, and continuous improvement. Develops account strategies, strengthens customer partnerships, supports new business and implementations, and coordinates international operational and functional teams. The role requires senior leadership, strong financial and stakeholder-management skills, and travel across the EMEA region.

Coordinates customer orders from entry through delivery, provides order-status support, manages customer data and assets in ERP systems, monitors inventory, and collaborates with production, procurement, warehouse, logistics, quality, and account-management teams. The role supports complaint resolution, compliance, reporting, continuous improvement, and supply-chain performance while maintaining strong customer satisfaction.

Lead DS Smith’s Finnish finance organization and a team of six, overseeing accounting, reporting, forecasting, budgeting, controls, compliance, cash flow, and working capital. Partner with local and regional leadership to drive business performance, profitability, operational efficiency, and informed decision-making. Lead process improvements, finance systems initiatives, and capability development in an international manufacturing environment.

Manage engineering spare-parts inventory for a packaging site, including ordering, goods receiving, issuing stock, stock control, cost allocation, reporting, stock checks, and maintaining minimum and maximum inventory levels. Ensure deliveries meet specifications and support scheduled engineering work. The role requires stores or engineering-environment experience, manufacturing knowledge, strong organization and analytical skills, SAP familiarity, and Microsoft Excel proficiency.

Leads regional client account operations for print, packaging, and retail display solutions. Responsibilities include managing account teams, executing strategic account plans, overseeing project delivery, achieving financial and margin targets, improving operational efficiency, managing suppliers, reporting KPIs, and developing long-term client relationships. The role is primarily remote in Germany with occasional client-site travel and requires fluent English.

Leads transport planning, despatch, warehouse, and yard operations at the Redditch manufacturing site. Responsibilities include managing third-party hauliers, optimizing routing and vehicle utilization, improving delivery performance and stock accuracy, controlling costs, ensuring health and safety compliance, and leading operational teams. The role also drives continuous improvement, develops employees, manages stakeholder relationships, and supports site and wider network objectives.

Design and implement manufacturable packaging solutions by translating customer requirements into technical designs, drawings, prototypes, specifications, and production approvals. Manage design enquiries, tooling orders, NPI activities, manufacturing trials, pallet plans, and packaging optimization projects. Collaborate with manufacturing, sales, commercial, innovation, and customer teams while supporting efficiency, waste reduction, sustainability, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Lead category strategy and annual business planning for UK&I, combining market and customer insights with internal data to identify growth opportunities, shape innovation priorities, support sales with customer proposals, and monitor regulatory and sustainability developments to drive commercial growth.

Own end-to-end delivery of multiple client projects, managing plans, milestones, timelines, documentation, risks, dependencies, approvals, and stakeholder communications. Coordinate Client Services, Design, Buying, Finance, suppliers, and project support teams to ensure accurate, timely delivery. Support recovery planning, governance, invoicing readiness, supplier payments, and continuous improvement while maintaining strong client and operational relationships.

Manage a key client relationship for print and display solutions, overseeing operational and commercial performance, vendor and production coordination, contract compliance, reporting, and identifying cost efficiencies and innovation opportunities.

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 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.

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.

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.