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About the Role

This role focuses on setting up and coordinating product introductions into production sites, managing timelines, artwork approvals, and information flow between internal stakeholders, customers, and suppliers. It involves compiling costing for FMCG products for Finance and operations, and supporting Sales in customer negotiations. New products will range from complex projects using new technologies to brand development, range extensions, and relaunches.

Responsibilities

• Co-ordinate New Product introduction and change management.
• Ensuring adherence to timelines for new product opportunities.
• Identify any business or supply risk for projects, ensuring project DIFOT.
• Read and interpret customer briefs.
• Work towards customer cost targets and identify/communicate compromises to meet expected costs or timings.
• Determine project packaging requirements and source materials from new and existing suppliers.
• Identify and implement material cost saving opportunities.
• Liaise with internal and external suppliers & customers regarding new product launches, packaging design, timings, and packaging specifications.
• Generate new product costings by liaising with key personnel to determine labour and material cost and identify any additional expenditure required for launch, present finalised costing to Business Commercial Manager and Site Manager for analysis and approval.
• Liaise with customers on all relevant details required for new product implementation.
• Identify and co-ordinate product run in and run outs.
• Responsible for scheduling and running Project meetings with internal stakeholders and communicating to relevant departments on project critical path and dates.
• Setup of new materials, BOM’s, and pricing in internal SAP system as well as continual system maintenance.
• Partake in problem solving with respect to packaging or efficiency and where appropriate lead resolution with internal and external stakeholders.
• Assisting with the setup of internal documentation and product specifications for Quality department.
• Work with the operations team to ensure first run targets are achieved.
• Strictly following OHS requirements and safety procedures.
• Contribute to the achievements of the department and company’s commercial & quality objectives.

Requirements

• Attention to detail and experience in delivering to brief.
• Experience working in a dynamic environment.
• Experience working to tight timelines.
• Ability to work autonomously.
• Ability to develop and continually improve processes.
• Experience in packaging or contract manufacturing sector.

Skills

• Strong SAP and Excel skills.
• Strong communication skills.

About the Company

• Pact Group’s Contract Manufacturing Division manufactures across several operational sites and supplies a wide range of homecare and personal-care categories to all the major retailers and global FMCG brand owners. We bring brands to life!