Associate Senior Packaging Technologist

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Wigan, Lancashire, England
Hybrid
Mid level
Big Data • Cloud • Food • Machine Learning • Software • Database • Analytics
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The Role
The Associate Senior Packaging Technologist at Kraft Heinz is responsible for creating, developing, and implementing packaging solutions, driving innovation and cost-out ideas, and building strong cross functional relationships. The position is based in Kitt Green, Wigan, UK.
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Job Description
What's on the Menu:
Our Company:
To be the BEST food company, growing a BETTER world isn't just a dream - it's our GLOBAL VISION. Kraft Heinz represents over $29 billion in revenue and is the 3rd largest food and beverage company in North America and 5th largest in the world. This is the perfect time to join our team and build something great. To be the best, we want the best - best brands, best practices and, most importantly, the best people. That's where you come in...
We have an excellent opportunity available for an Associate Sr Packaging Technologist to make a difference at Kraft Heinz. The position part of the International R&D Packaging team; this specific role is based at Kitt Green, Wigan, UK. You'll be working in a high performing team, alongside peers always trying to reach the next level. You'll be reporting into the Packaging Manager, based at the Int. R&D Centre in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Get ready for a lot of exposure to internal senior stakeholders. You're constantly looking for new and improved packaging solutions for the international market.
Key Ingredients:

  • Delivering key goals; perfect the fundamentals, ensure cost competitiveness, make sustainability a competitive edge and strengthen capabilities and competences in the International Zone Packaging team
  • Creating, developing, and implementing industrialized packaging solutions under specific projects, ensuring robust risk management and delivery of quality attributes
  • Proactively drive innovation and cost-out ideas to build the pipeline
  • Building strong cross functional relationships


Recipe for Success: Apply if it sounds like you

  • A completed Packaging / engineering / science degree
  • 5-7 years of experience within packaging development in a complex / matrix organization
  • Positively embraces business best practice and seek opportunities to lead and implement.
  • Passionate and curious to learn all there is about Packaging
  • Effective in communication: informing, stakeholder management, network building


Competencies:

  • Able to simplify the complex: able to present technical topics to non-technical audience with support
  • Ability to learn fast and perform in a changing environment
  • Building an understanding of consumer needs, driver and trends and translate into technical concepts, prototypes and drive towards execution
  • Acts as an owner
  • Able to understand work prioritization
  • Problem solver; be creative and pragmatic
  • Team player
  • Fluent in business English (written & verbal)


What we offer you / You deserve

  • An ambitious employer; we want to the best for you;
  • A fast career track like only few other companies can match;
  • A competitive salary and excellent bonus structure (above market);
  • Always room for new ideas; if you have an excellent idea, please let us know, and we can set it in action!
  • Discounts on gym membership, healthcare etc


We hope you find a seat at our table!
Location(s)
Kitt Green
Kraft Heinz is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Underrepresented Ethnic Minority Groups/Women/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity and other protected classes.

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The Company
HQ: Chicago, IL
38,000 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2015

What We Do

At the heart of this journey is our ambition to create an enterprise where powerful AI solutions augment humans and where small mission-based teams are in relentless pursuit to solve tangible problems for our consumers, customers, and the enterprise. That ambition requires us to create a modern cloud and data ecosystem - a one of its kind that becomes the neural network of our company. We want you to bring your tech-self to us. We use Python, R, Spark, React, Tableau, Snowflake, Azure, and others to solve the problem on hand. In-turn, you can look forward to high-impact challenges, no bureaucracy, entrepreneurial small teams, and a unique opportunity to create and build something bold, awesome, and impactful – all while honoring our 150-year heritage and a portfolio of 200 iconic and emerging brands!

Why Work With Us

Our ambition is to become a best-in-class Digital leader by making data-driven investments that drive smarter business decisions. You’ll invent the next wave of augmented intelligence products where software & humans work side-by-side to rethink every aspect of our company. You’ll make an imprint & leave your legacy on every part of our business.

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We also believe providing a more flexible and agile model is essential in today’s workplace. A majority of our office-based employees will be able to work remotely for up to two days each week.

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