Packaging Development Co-ordinator (Wine Jobs: Management & Administration)

Enrich Your Everyday

At Accolade Wines, our purpose is to enrich everyday moments through our amazing wine brands. It goes without saying that everything we do as an organisation and as individuals is in service of fulfilling this purpose.
As one of the world’s leading wine companies, our award-winning portfolio includes loved brands such as Hardys, Grant Burge, St Hallett, House of Arras, Petaluma, Banrock Station, Mud House, Jam Shed, Tatachilla, Brookland Valley and many more.
The driving force behind our business is our people, their expertise, their passion and their professionalism. With over 1,400 dedicated employees in Australia, the UK, Europe, Asia, South Africa, New Zealand and North and South America, it is our teamwork that sets us apart.

Role Details

• To support the Packaging Development Managers in providing a specialist resource for the commercial and operations functions, that delivers Accolade a competitive advantage by positioning our packaging at the forefront of the market through proactive approach to use of packaging innovation.
• Continually review and improve formats to build differentiation and a hierarchy of packaging into our portfolio, whilst developing new product formats in a safe, efficient, cost effective and timely manner ensuring that quality and the customers’ needs are met.

Your Key Accountabilities

• Artwork available at the point of order
• Master Data accuracy
• On time NPD/EPD delivery
• Shop floor packet accuracy
• Right first time artwork approval
• SKU setup (Briefing documents, Master Data Management, Barcode management)
• Provide and facilitate links between Purchasing, Marketing, Sales, Customer Services and Production
• Provide operations with technical support in order to ensure that the material specifications are fit-for-purpose, both in terms of production line compatibility, quality and trade performance

Other Accountabilities Include

• Coordinate project management (Costs, timings and communication)
• Coordinate artwork management (Flowmation, Artwork briefs and approval)
• Coordinate continuous improvement (OEE, Innovation and Value Engineering)
• Coordinate material trials (Stakeholder management and material validation)
• Coordinate development of the departmental quality and environmental management systems and to promote quality awareness across the business

Your Knowledge and Skills

• MRP (preferably JDE)
• Extensive reprographic and artwork management experience
• Strong Value engineering principles

Essential Qualifications

• Strong analytical skills
• Strong customer focus and service
• High levels of attention to detail
• Drive and ambition to continually improve

Physical and Other Requirements

• GCSE Maths
• GCSE English
• A-Level equivalent

Our Company Values

• Ownership
• Focus
• Innovate
• Results
• Leadership