Packaging Development Technologist

Entity / company:
Carlsberg Marston’s Brewing Company

Job Title: Packaging Development Technologist

Location: Hemel Hempstead – Hybrid

Job Length: Permanent

Working Hours: Monday – Friday (full time)

Competitive Salary with extensive benefits:

• Monthly product allowance – alcoholic & non-alcoholic options available
• Private Medical options
• Life Assurance
• Company bonus scheme
• Access to 24/7 GP services
• Enhanced pension contribution
• Access to a range of high street discounts

Carlsberg Britvic is the largest multi-beverage supplier in the UK and is home to some of the most iconic and popular beers & soft drinks, including Carlsberg Danish Pilsner, 1664, Poretti and Brooklyn to ale favourites such as Hobgoblin and Wainwright. For soft drinks, Carlsberg Britvic’s brands include J2O, Robinsons, Tango and London Essence along with the licence rights to the Pepsi portfolio in the UK including Pepsi MAX, 7UP, Lipton Ice Tea and Rockstar Energy.

With a strong national footprint, the Carlsberg Britvic business includes 5 production facilities and 16logistics depot’s servicing customers up and down the UK. As these two historical businesses have come together, the one common goal remains, and that is ensuring our people succeed.

The Packaging Development Technologist supports the end-to-end development and delivery of packaging solutions across Carlsberg Britvic, helping turn ideas and business needs into robust, scalable and commercially successful products.

Working within the Innovation Development & Delivery team, you will provide technical packaging leadership on small to medium-sized projects and defined work streams, from concept and brief through trials, validation, implementation and launch.

You will contribute to innovation, value engineering, sustainability, compliance and business continuity initiatives, while providing practical packaging support to manufacturing sites, contract packers and cross-functional partners.

Our Innovation Development & Delivery team creates value through strong technical expertise, collaboration and execution excellence. We are passionate about best-in-class packaging, developing products consumers love, and delivering projects with pace, precision and impact.

• Provide technical input on packaging development projects from concept and brief through to commercialisation.
• Act as packaging technical lead on small to medium-sized projects and defined work streams, managing priorities, actions, risks and project documentation.
• Create and maintain clear design briefs, supplier briefs, specifications, test methods and design-control documentation.
• Develop, execute and report packaging testing and validation plans, including laboratory, production line and route to market trials.
• Validate packaging designs through to full-scale manufacturing at Carlsberg Britvic sites and approved contract packers.
• Build effective partnerships with Marketing, Quality, Supply Chain, Procurement, Manufacturing and suppliers to deliver business priorities.
• Ensure assigned work is delivered to agreed timing, cost, quality and success criteria, following Carlsberg Britvic technical processes and project stage gates.
• Apply structured risk management tools and maintain clear mitigation plans for packaging, product, process and supply risks.
• Provide day-to-day technical packaging support for factories, supplier changes, quality investigations, root-cause analysis and change control.
• Develop and maintain accurate, statistically validated packaging specifications and methods.
• Support innovation, value engineering, line-efficiency, sustainability, compliance and business continuity initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to improve material efficiency,…