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<div class="mds-edited-text mds-font-body-copy-bulk"><p><b>UK Innovation Director - Ideally based near Northampton with travel as required.</b></p><p>Our client is Europe&
39;s leading corrugated packaging company and one of the leading paper-based packaging companies in the world - an industry leader with 46,000 employees globally, 350 production sites around the world, with locations in 23 countries in Europe and 13 countries in the Americas.</p><p>People are at the heart of this organisation and they are constantly working towards creating a fully inclusive working environment where people from all backgrounds are free to be themselves and succeed. Diversity makes sense for them, for their customers and for their future. They value different perspectives, skills and experiences, and welcome applications from all sections of their communities.</p><p>This Company is</p><p><ul><li>A Disability Confident Employer and guarantee an interview to candidates who meet our essential criteria.</li><li>Open to considering flexible working, such as part-time hours, hybrid working and other flexible options.</li><li>Happy to offer a wide range of Family Friendly policies including emergency time off for dependants and to provide generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave provisions for our valued colleagues.</li></ul></p><p>As a business our client is both creative and innovative, providing eye catching retail ready packaging solutions to support the sales and marketing campaigns of most of the UK manufacturing industry, as well as a vast range of protective transit packaging. Add to that the fact that paper based packaging is the ultimate sustainable resource &ndash; in the UK 80% of all corrugated cardboard is recycled, and the average cardboard box contains 75% recycled fibres, this has to be a business worth considering.</p><p>You will be responsible for making sure that insights and market trends are reflected in shaping how our client identifies, develops, commercialises and evaluates customer driven product innovation. Inspiring the sales and design teams to implement technical solutions that add value for their customers now and in the future and drive stronger business growth. Bringing curiosity and innovation, with a passion for customer insights, you will spark an innovation agenda that delivers a lasting connection with customers. You will collaborate with teams across Europe, bring together different sectors of the business, building partnerships to showcase all our client can offer as solution focused business. </p><p><b>Key accountabilities include:</b></p><p><ul><li>Lead innovation implementation, putting the customer at the heart of our approach and dramatically increasing innovation contribution.</li><li>Lead the ongoing customer research and analysis approach to constantly uncover penetrating insights to refresh and predictively sharpen our consumer-based product innovation.</li><li>Harness insights and trends that can be leveraged to unlock growth and implement group strategy in the UK e.g. how we win with customers in these spaces.</li><li>Introduce outside perspective on content and promote a new and agile approach to the cross functional team and stakeholders. Collaborating with Innovation Directors across Europe and the VP of Innovation &amp; Development. </li><li>Development and delivery of effective design strategies &amp; holistic design solutions in partnership with key business stakeholders.</li><li>Design flow and collaboration principles to drive optimal collaborative work in introducing new solutions in market, as well as shape and build the optimal work plan with the cross-functional team.</li><li>Elevate design thinking, uncovering transformation opportunities to help customers get the most out of their design investments.</li><li>Champion the latest methodologies, disruptive thinking and insights that can accelerate our customer relationships and in turn our product innovation agenda.</li><li>Proactively engage with BDM&rsquo;s and Account Managers to lead new business development opportunities and support account retention.</li><li>Manage the EC teams to ensure strategic design development is customer centric and value adding.</li><li>Shares best practice and design insights between the UK EC team and company sites.</li><li>Consults with design &amp; sales teams on operational design processes.</li><li>Identifies and measures key metrics for projects in collaboration with stakeholders.</li><li>To develop &amp; support the EC team members growth.</li><li>Consult on various EC projects and visits.</li><li>To provide both a UK &amp; Group perspective to projects to maximise opportunity.</li><li>Project management of key opportunities, with clearly defined milestones. </li><li>Champion the Group initiatives and ensure the team have broad knowledge of the tools, products &amp; services to showcase their value. </li><li>Host customer workshops and shape briefs from concept to implementation.</li><li>Network with EC centres within Group to maximise knowledge and share research.</li></ul></p><p><b>To be successful in this role, candidates will ideally possess all or most of the following skills:</b></p><p><ul><li>Leadership</li><li>Innovative thinker</li><li>Project Management Skills</li><li>Experience in Design process</li><li>Adaptability and be able to complete a wide range of different tasks</li><li>Numerate, accurate</li><li>Commercial awareness</li><li>Problem solver</li><li>Creative</li><li>Confident and able communicator</li></ul></p><p><b>Package </b></p><p><ul><li><b>Competitive Salary</b></li><li><b>Bonus</b></li><li><b>Company car</b></li><li><b>Company pension</b></li><li><b>Hybrid working</b></li><li><b>Life assurance </b></li><li><b>25 days annual leave plus bank holidays</b></li></ul></p><p>Applicants should click on the <b>Apply </b>button now and follow the on-line application process.</p><p>The closing date for applications is 31st March 2022.</p>