Packaging Sustainability Lead

Packaging Sustainability Lead

Department: New Product Development

Employment Type: Fixed Term - Full Time

Location: Andover

Are you searching for a career with bags of variety, in an environment that celebrates differences and empowers collaboration, which values people and will encourage you to make an impact? Do you want the freedom to explore, and the opportunities to find new ways and to innovate? If so, Twinings Ovo delivers.

We’re looking for people who don’t just come here to get the job done, but who have a real passion for the brand and a desire to do the best job they can. In return, we offer an inspiring package of employee benefits - to show just how much we value you. This role will offer you the scope for growth and the tools to aim high.

The Packaging Sustainability Lead is aFixed Term Contract (2 years) role where you will be focused on accelerating and delivering priority sustainable packaging initiatives, translating strategy into technically robust, compliant solutions that are implemented at pace across key markets to enable the delivery of net zero commitments and minimise the environmental impact of our packaging. This is a highly pivotal, visible role in which you will be responsible for leading upfront packaging solution exploration to address sustainability challenges, ensuring alignment with legislative requirements, corporate environmental goals, and industry best practices.

This new role will monitor and interpret the evolving legislative landscape, enabling Twinings to proactively meet external and internal targets. Acting as a bridge between sustainability ambitions and practical execution, the Packaging Sustainability Lead will collaborate closely with internal cross-functional teams, external partners and industry experts to develop and deploy the implementation of sustainable packaging solutions to deliver both business and environmental objectives.

It is key that product protection and consumer expectations are met, and the role will support our longer-term innovation pipeline to ensure that sustainability is kept at the fore front of development.

This is a fixed-term role, for 2 years.

• Provide hands-on technical expertise in packaging materials, structures and specifications to assess sustainability solutions for application across the supply chain.
• Lead technical decisions and clearly articulate implications to stakeholders.
• Assess how emerging legislation materially changes packaging design, specifications or formats, and lead necessary technical or specification responses.
• Lead a cross functional team to define the technical success criteria, testing protocols and validation requirements for new sustainable materials and formats.
• Act as a technical escalation point for complex sustainability-led packaging questions.
• Work cross functionally to identify future tools or systems to enable efficient data gathering and reporting and own delivery of these tools.
• Drive the adoption of Design for Compliance approaches and tools.

• Apply change management principles to secure buy‑in, align functions, and turn sustainability recommendations into decisions and action.
• Drive the implementation of sustainability best practices throughout the Twinings business
• Work with cross functional teams (example, Procurement) to maintain, update and monitor dashboards. Where necessary implement systems or tracking to enable accurate reporting on progress towards targets.
• Represent Packaging function where required in Sustainability platforms and committees, e.g., TwO Environmental Due Diligence, Twinings Environmental Working group. Create clear recommendations to enable senior stakeholders to make informed decisions.
• In collaboration with Regulatory team, enable marketing teams to ensure that our consumers are educated and informed to allow correct disposal of packaging materials.
• Provide regular business updates to stakeholders to communicate trends, industry updates and insight into the wider sustainable packaging landscape.
• Work closely with Ovo to ensure that common challenges are shared and that…