Packaging Project Manager – Paris - Paris - € Competitive Salary

Job Title: Packaging Project Manager – Paris

This position has now been filled, but has been left on our website as we have other similar vacancies on an ongoing basis.

More importantly, we have vacancies that are not advertised due to their confidential nature. It is therefore in your interest to email your CV, as a Word document, depending on your sector, to:

• Head of Packaging recruitment – Greg Nelson –
• Head of Print recruitment – Neil Pearson –
• Head of Paper recruitment – Gary Young –
• Board level, account management, and all levels of sales vacancies – George Thompson –

Our divisional heads will then email your CV internally to the consultant who specialises in your exact sector. For example, a category of packaging is cartons, a category of print is print management. In fact, we have over 30 specialist categories. Our specialist consultant will contact you if we have a live vacancy that matches, or in the near future as soon as a good match to your skill set and experience becomes available.

An opportunity has arisen for a Packaging Project Manager to work with world class clients, in a company that combines deep expertise in design, graphic services, production, technology, and process optimisation with unmatched marketplace understanding, dynamic ideas, and client first customer service.

Working with the Account Manager, you will be the first point of contact for Client’s Marketing teams in the coordination of packaging / e-commerce development projects.

The role of Packaging Project Manager is to ensure the daily coordination of the production: manage workflows, summarise information received from the customer, follow-up of the quality of the production, ensure deadlines are met.

You will be the point of contact for technical aspects: participate in technical meetings (launch of range, contact with the printers, etc.), press passing, and will act as technical point of contact for proof management.

Requirements

• At least 2 years’ experience in a similar position
• Possess very good technical skills, excellent knowledge of the graphic chain and packaging (artwork and reprography), printing processes (offset, flexo, rotogravure), proofing and color management
• You like working on a team and have good interpersonal skills.
• You are organised, rigorous and proactive.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Pack
• Knowledge of Indesign, Illustrator and Photoshop preferred

We ask that you only apply for any of our vacancies if you are resident in the UK and you work / have recently worked in the print, packaging or paper sectors.