Packaging Technologist

Essity is a leading global hygiene and health company dedicated to improving well-being through our products and solutions, essentials for everyday life. The name Essity stems from the words essentials and necessities. Our sustainable business model creates value for people and nature. Working at Essity is not just a career; it is a chance to directly make the world a healthier, more hygienic and safer place. With life-changing innovations coupled with sustainable solutions, Essity strives to reach more people every year with the necessary and essential solutions for well-being. At Essity, we believe every career is as unique as the individual and empower employees to reach their full potential in a winning culture motivated by a powerful purpose.

Packaging Technologist

Join our diverse team as a Packaging Technologist, where you will play a pivotal role in driving our packaging projects from concept to commercialization.

Your expertise will directly influence brand package maintenance, package innovation, cost-saving initiatives, and packaging usage reporting. You’ll also have the opportunity to interact with external stakeholders such as APCO.

As a Packaging Technologist, you will manage packaging and print design changes within timelines and cost constraints, collaborate with various teams for improvements and savings, set print quality standards, and proof new designs. You will provide technical support to New Packaging Projects (NPD) and consumer marketing teams.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to design from scratch, bringing your creative and innovative ideas to life. You will work on a broad range of projects across our Libra, TOM Organic, and TENA brands. There is also ample opportunity to work closely with marketing and operations teams, providing a collaborative and dynamic work environment.

We’re looking for individuals who embody our values, aren’t afraid to challenge, innovate, experiment, and work across multiple projects. We’re always looking for ways to improve our products and ourselves. If this sounds like you, we’d love to talk.

• Manage new packaging projects (NPD)

• Optimize supply chain logistics through pallet models

• Document and authorize materials’ technical performance and print specifications

• Attend Supplier Liaison Meetings and engage with suppliers for new projects

• Collaborate with various teams for improvements and savings

• Set print quality standards and proof new designs

• Provide technical support to New Packaging Projects (NPD) and consumer marketing teams

• Maintain up-to-date artwork and specifications for palletisations

• Drive initiatives related to formats, cost-saving, and sustainability

You are a detail-oriented and collaborative professional with tertiary qualifications in a science or engineering-related field. A degree in packaging or printing would be highly regarded. Ideally, you have technical training in packaging design and graphics, and familiarity with FMCG NPD processes and product cost accounting/SAP. You also have:

• A minimum of 3 years' experience in a similar role

• Strong analytical skills, communication, and project management experience

• Experience with APCO reporting, knowledge of high-speed converting, flexographic, and gravure printing, and purchasing experience would be a plus

• A consumer and customer-focused approach, highly organized and adaptable, with effective communication skills.

Our purpose, Breaking Barriers to Well-being, provides meaning to everything we do. Working at Essity means a chance to improve well-being for people and opportunities to drive positive change for the society and the environment.

As an employee at Essity, you will belong to an organization where you feel valued and supported to grow, and challenged to generate business results in a collaborative and open atmosphere. Innovate for Good  |  Excel Together |  Be You with Us

Working at Essity is not just a career; it is a chance to directly make the world a healthier, more hygienic and safer place. With impactful innovations coupled with sustainable solutions, we strive to reach more people every year with the necessary and essential solutions for well-being.