Packaging professionals are employed across industry in a range of sectors including automotive, food and drink, medical supplies, pet care, pharmaceutical, and retail. They also work in companies supplying packaging related services. This includes packaging converters, material manufacturers and design agencies.
Packaging encloses or protects products for transport, storage, sale, and use. Packaging professionals work covers the packaging life cycle from concept design, prototyping and testing, through to production management, performance monitoring, and continuous improvement. Key to the role is identifying solutions that improve sustainable practice. They may work on projects by themselves or as part of a team.
In their daily work, an employee in this occupation interacts with a range of different teams, functions, and stakeholders. This includes consumer insights, customers, engineering, finance, legal, logistics, marketing, material and equipment suppliers, procurement, product development, production, quality, and sales. They also have contact with external regulators and organisations such as WRAP (Waste and Resources Action Programme).
They must deliver functional and feasible packaging solutions to meet the brief. They must take account of technical, operational, and practical limitations including timescales and budgets. Solutions must be regulatory compliant, accessible, inclusive and in line with company policy, procedures, and requirements. They must adhere to ethical principles and the UN sustainability development goals.
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