Technical Innovations Specialist

Job Description :

Job Title: Technical Innovations Specialist

About us:

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.

Join us to create a career worth celebrating.

About the Function:

Our Supply Chain and Manufacturing team are problem-solvers, sourcing, producing, and delivering our much-loved brands to delight customers around the globe. Over half of Diageo’s 30,000+ people work in Supply Chain and Manufacturing. It’s an intricate and sophisticated operation that’s the product of logistical, manufacturing, and technical collaborations.

Our teams in 100 sites in over 30 countries cover production facilities, supplier relationships, customer collaborations and third-party agreements. We’re committed to realising our ‘Society 2030: Spirit of Progress’ goals, to protect the environment and support our farmers and suppliers. Whatever your skills and experience, we’ll help you to thrive in our inclusive culture

About the team: TE

About the role:

Overview

• The role is responsible for Supply Chain Liquid development and packaging (innovation and renovation) within Supply Chain/Production function in Diageo South Africa
• This role is the link between marketing Innovation and Supply/Production functions and would lead in the piloting of new products in this regard.
• Collaborate and partner with the supply sources, 3rd party, co-packers and materials suppliers in driving the innovations agenda

Role Responsibilities:

• Approaches issues from a range of perspectives to develop commercially viable insights.
• Operates in a determined and purposeful manner and is tenacious at achieving goals.
• Demonstrates exemplary stakeholder engagement capability.
• Constantly promotes and builds upon the expertise and professionalism of the GBTC.
• Prepared to make objective decisions and stand behind them.
• Is resilient in periods of pressure.
• Engages others in new projects and initiatives.
• Responds to change in a positive and flexible manner.
• Is a strong advocate of and proficient in the use of the Concept to consumer (C2C) ways of working.
• Builds the right team to achieve clearly defined and communicated project goals.
• Creates a supportive and challenging team climate, understands how to get the best from others.
• Has sound understanding of own impact and modifies actions, accordingly, works hard to understand what is important to others.

Purpose of Role

• Responsible and accountable for Supply Chain brand change activities.

Top 3-5 Accountabilities

• Delivery of “True to Concept” packaging and liquid solutions to agreed cost, quality and time commitments.
• Develop packs and liquid for innovation and brand change and translate a prototype concept into a fully commercialised package, working closely with suppliers.
• Application of required project planning, budgeting, tracking, reporting and stakeholder communications processes to demonstrate required rigour of project management.
• Application of necessary packaging development skills to ensure “Design for Quality” packaging designed which performs well at all stages in the Supply Chain

Experience / skills required:

• Relevant Degree or related qualification.
• 6 years Technical innovations experience
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and influencing skills, being capable of developing sound working relationships.
• Strong project management skills with sound knowledge of a wide range of raw materials packaging materials and processes including:
• Artwork specification and management
• Reprographics process
• Design and development of packaging, materials and liquids.
• Translate concept of both liquid and packaging into a fully commercialised product through developing product handling processes and managing technical trials at pilot and production scale, working closely with other teams involved in these trials.
• Ensure new products comply with the requirements of the Liquor Products Act and other legislative and internal regulations and standards.
• Keep up to date with new innovations and technology and be proactive in bringing potential opportunities to the attention of the business.
• Deliver all work to agree standard on time and within budget while at all times complying with Health and Safety requirements and Good Manufacturing Practice.
• Application of required project planning, budgeting, tracking, reporting and stakeholder communications processes to demonstrate required rigour of project management.
• Risk Management practices and techniques.
• Ability to develop sound understanding of GBTC and Brand Change processes and Ways of Working.
• Ability to develop sound understanding of Navigate and Accelerate 360 process.
• Excellent organization, report preparation, and presentation skills.

Essential Attributes for Success

• Ability to operate independently on own initiative, including being unable to engage and impact on senior managers.
• Ability to fully engage with customer base to define and deliver projects successfully.
• Ownership and accountability for own actions.
• Project management experience,
• Ability to work in cross functional teams and influence in that scale

Flexible Working Statement:

Flexibility is key to our success. From part-time and compressed hours to different locations, our people work flexibly in ways to suit them. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported from day one

Rewards & Benefits Statement: TE

Diversity statement:

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you. 

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Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

Waterfall

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2025-02-21