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Packaging Admin Assistant

🏢 Matalan • 📍 Liverpool, England • 🕒 1 day ago

Salary Range

£19,925 - £20,547

£1,660 - £1,712 / mo

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Location Base

Liverpool, England

Tier-1 UK Economic Zone

Est. Take-Home Pay

68% - 74% (After PAYE & NI)

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Transatlantic Parity

1.0 GBP ≈ $1.28 USD Living Standard

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Position Overview & Specifications

About the role

Interested in the development of Fashion and Homeware packaging? We're looking for a Packaging Assistant to join our Sourcing and Packaging team to ensure that business packaging requirements are delivered on time and within budget.

As a Packaging Assistant, you'll be responsible for:

Managing the end to end sampling and costing process as well as any day to day issues, communicating any sample approvals/rejections to relevant print partners.
Developing and maintaining excellent relationships with key stakeholders, attending regular briefings and development meetings.
Effectively manage workload and timescales.
Ensuring that all product meets up to date Matalan Packaging Guidelines and is readily available to Matalan Suppliers
Liaising with nominated print partners, to review and manage stock, ongoing developments in order to align with the critical path.
Working closely with wider trading teams, as well as external suppliers to understand packaging requirements and end to end processes.

Please note this role is based in Head Office.

For more information of how you can develop a career in Packaging at Matalan please follow the link!

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About You

To find the best fit for our Packaging Assistant, we'd like you to have the following:

Ideally, graduate-level educating with a business or supply chain related degree
Outstanding work management and organisational skills
Strong attention to detail
Proven ability to work well under pressure
Professional approach

About Matalan

From humble beginnings to disruptive innovations in the retail industry, when we say there’s no other retailer like Matalan, we really mean it! There’s an honesty and energy here that allows our people to shine, which our colleagues, customers and suppliers love.

With over 200 stores in the UK, a growing online presence and over 15,000 employees, we’re a thriving, omnichannel value retailer that’s going places and delivering year on year growth.

If you want to work for a company that’s passionate about its people, helps you to grow and be the best you can be, then you’ve come to the right place.???

We work together to support our customers, suppliers and each other, and we’re excited by the possibility of our people helping us to shape the future of retail.

We make sure every voice is heard, nurture the ambitions of our people and invest in their future. Our amazing and diverse people make us who we are and our values are the driving force behind everything we do: Think Customer, Think Family, Be Real, Be the Best.

Talent is quickly spotted and nurtured, and there are lots of opportunities to tailor make your own career and learn with us.

Right now, Matalan is stepping in to a new age and embracing the changing face of retail. We have some exciting opportunities across the business in Retail and Logistics, as well as Ecommerce, Marketing, Technology and Product at our Head Office in Liverpool and our new Creative Hub in London.

Benefits

Hybrid working, 3 days in the office, 2 days at home
Flexible start and finish times
Early Finish Friday every week (3 pm)
Early Finish Birthday- 2pm finish on your special day
Wellbeing day additional to annual leave
25 days holiday plus bank holidays (increasing up to 30 days with length of service)
20% discount in-store and online
Great development opportunities through our My Matalan offer plus the chance to develop on the job and access funding for professional qualifications
Group Life Assurance of 3 x salary