Date: Dec 17, 2024
Location:
Dorset, GB
Place of Work: On-Site
Company Description
We are FBC UK, Fox's Burton's Companies! We bake the UK's most incredible biscuits. FBC UK was formed with two of the top UK biscuit manufacturers (Burton's Biscuits and Fox's Biscuits) coming together to create one unique, integrated company.
We are home to famous iconic brands, including Maryland, Fox's, Jammie Dodger & Rocky. We are proud manufacturing partners to some of the biggest UK retailers and household names. We bake our incredible biscuits at eight bakeries across the UK, employing circa 4,000 amazing colleagues across all our locations.
We are currently the second biscuit manufacturer in the UK market with a strong ambition of becoming the UK Market Leader. We know that the key ingredient to our success is our people and the passion we have for our brands. We knead people with innovative ideas, an entrepreneurial spirit, and the commitment to drive FBC UK to success.
We are committed to building an inclusive workforce that feels empowered to build a fulfilling and successful career. By embracing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), we create a supportive environment for people to thrive. We understand that having formal and on-the-job learning opportunities is key to our colleagues’ professional and personal growth.
About The Role
We are seeking a proactive R&D Packaging Manager to lead packaging innovation, sustainability, and industrialisation activities at our Dorset site. This role blends technical expertise with entrepreneurial thinking to develop bespoke packaging solutions, support production with technical troubleshooting, and drive sustainability initiatives in alignment with company goals.
Reporting to the Head of Packaging, this position requires a dynamic individual to manage packaging development and trials, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and act as the site’s primary packaging contact. The successful candidate will champion knowledge-sharing across teams, ensure best practices, and drive visibility for packaging contributions at the site and beyond.
Main Responsibilities
Packaging Innovation & Sustainability:
Lead the development of bespoke packaging innovations tailored to our Dorset site’s unique needs, leveraging new materials, technologies, and trends. Adopt and implement sustainable packaging solutions that align with company policies, reducing environmental impact while maintaining functionality and cost-efficiency. Provide technical guidance on packaging materials and specifications, continually improving packaging performance and stability across the bakery. Ensure Packaging Compliance, meeting quality, functionality, regulatory, and cost-effectiveness standards. Trial Management & Industrialization:
Plan, coordinate, and execute packaging trials on production lines, ensuring robust evaluations and seamless integration of new materials and formats. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot technical issues and optimize packaging performance. Ensure timely and accurate reporting of trial outcomes, including transit tests and scalability assessments, identifying any issues and troubleshooting where needed. Collaboration & Knowledge Sharing:
Regularly liaise with other Packaging Technologists to share insights, best practices, and innovations across the company. Act as the key point of contact for packaging updates and changes at Dorset, ensuring alignment across stakeholders, advising on pallet configurations, and ensuring systems and departments are up to date with packaging changes and innovations. Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement, ensuring the adoption of best-in-class practices and the exploration of emerging trends. Build and maintain strong relationships with packaging suppliers and external agencies, staying updated on industry trends. Key Ingredients For The Role:
Excellent communication through all interactions/channels (meetings, presentations, daily updates). Project Management and accountability to ensure projects are delivered on time and in full. Strong Packaging background to propose, challenge, enhance all our innovations and guide the implementation in our factories. Entrepreneurial Mindset, bringing a proactive, creative approach to problem-solving and innovation, driving bespoke solutions for the site. Business acumen to promote and challenge ideas understanding the full impact on the business. Technical curiosity to explore new trends, innovations, materials and push to take FBC to the next level. Remarkable Teamwork to liaise with peers and other functions, working together to elevate Packaging in the company. Diversity Statement:
FBC UK is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture in which all employees feel welcomed and appreciated and have the same opportunities. We believe all of our people are equally talented in their own way. In nurturing the curiosity and natural abilities of our employees, we provide them, generation after generation, the means to succeed personally and professionally. #J-18808-Ljbffr
Location:
Dorset, GB
Place of Work: On-Site
Company Description
We are FBC UK, Fox's Burton's Companies! We bake the UK's most incredible biscuits. FBC UK was formed with two of the top UK biscuit manufacturers (Burton's Biscuits and Fox's Biscuits) coming together to create one unique, integrated company.
We are home to famous iconic brands, including Maryland, Fox's, Jammie Dodger & Rocky. We are proud manufacturing partners to some of the biggest UK retailers and household names. We bake our incredible biscuits at eight bakeries across the UK, employing circa 4,000 amazing colleagues across all our locations.
We are currently the second biscuit manufacturer in the UK market with a strong ambition of becoming the UK Market Leader. We know that the key ingredient to our success is our people and the passion we have for our brands. We knead people with innovative ideas, an entrepreneurial spirit, and the commitment to drive FBC UK to success.
We are committed to building an inclusive workforce that feels empowered to build a fulfilling and successful career. By embracing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), we create a supportive environment for people to thrive. We understand that having formal and on-the-job learning opportunities is key to our colleagues’ professional and personal growth.
About The Role
We are seeking a proactive R&D Packaging Manager to lead packaging innovation, sustainability, and industrialisation activities at our Dorset site. This role blends technical expertise with entrepreneurial thinking to develop bespoke packaging solutions, support production with technical troubleshooting, and drive sustainability initiatives in alignment with company goals.
Reporting to the Head of Packaging, this position requires a dynamic individual to manage packaging development and trials, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and act as the site’s primary packaging contact. The successful candidate will champion knowledge-sharing across teams, ensure best practices, and drive visibility for packaging contributions at the site and beyond.
Main Responsibilities
Packaging Innovation & Sustainability:
Lead the development of bespoke packaging innovations tailored to our Dorset site’s unique needs, leveraging new materials, technologies, and trends. Adopt and implement sustainable packaging solutions that align with company policies, reducing environmental impact while maintaining functionality and cost-efficiency. Provide technical guidance on packaging materials and specifications, continually improving packaging performance and stability across the bakery. Ensure Packaging Compliance, meeting quality, functionality, regulatory, and cost-effectiveness standards. Trial Management & Industrialization:
Plan, coordinate, and execute packaging trials on production lines, ensuring robust evaluations and seamless integration of new materials and formats. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot technical issues and optimize packaging performance. Ensure timely and accurate reporting of trial outcomes, including transit tests and scalability assessments, identifying any issues and troubleshooting where needed. Collaboration & Knowledge Sharing:
Regularly liaise with other Packaging Technologists to share insights, best practices, and innovations across the company. Act as the key point of contact for packaging updates and changes at Dorset, ensuring alignment across stakeholders, advising on pallet configurations, and ensuring systems and departments are up to date with packaging changes and innovations. Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement, ensuring the adoption of best-in-class practices and the exploration of emerging trends. Build and maintain strong relationships with packaging suppliers and external agencies, staying updated on industry trends. Key Ingredients For The Role:
Excellent communication through all interactions/channels (meetings, presentations, daily updates). Project Management and accountability to ensure projects are delivered on time and in full. Strong Packaging background to propose, challenge, enhance all our innovations and guide the implementation in our factories. Entrepreneurial Mindset, bringing a proactive, creative approach to problem-solving and innovation, driving bespoke solutions for the site. Business acumen to promote and challenge ideas understanding the full impact on the business. Technical curiosity to explore new trends, innovations, materials and push to take FBC to the next level. Remarkable Teamwork to liaise with peers and other functions, working together to elevate Packaging in the company. Diversity Statement:
FBC UK is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture in which all employees feel welcomed and appreciated and have the same opportunities. We believe all of our people are equally talented in their own way. In nurturing the curiosity and natural abilities of our employees, we provide them, generation after generation, the means to succeed personally and professionally. #J-18808-Ljbffr
