Packaging Associate

**Overview**:The Packaging Associate is responsible for supporting the execution of new packaging development projects and ensuring all new opportunities have appropriate packaging to ensure performance and meet customer requirements. You will collaborate cross-functionally across internal teams of PD, Production, Engineering, Procurement, and Sales to ensure all packaging related needs are met.

Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

- Ensure dielines and printer specification database is maintained and reflects all the requirements (UPC, date code locations).
- Assist in the completion of all customer documentation within the customer-defined timeline.
- Support the design review and approval process to ensure critical path deadlines are met.
- Maintain our Packaging Library.
- Complete Packaging Intake Form for item creation for all new packaging along with adding approved pdf.
- Review all NPD1s and provide input on packaging details.
- Assist in the completion of required packaging fill-rate tests.
- Review Bill of Material (BOM) packaging details for the costing template.
- Review BOM final packaging details.
- Complete packaging details in Item Master Upload and customer portals.
- Support the development of detailed Product Profiles for the Production team including updating product profiles with final images after the first production.
- Support the Packaging Development Manager in executing new product launches and provide on-site support to floor personnel during the first production runs of new products.
- Responsible for loading and maintaining packaging specifications within customer portals and managing customer documentation requests.
- Support Packaging Sustainability initiatives with all customers including both internal team communication plus customer packaging sustainability surveys.
- Continuous improvement of existing processes as required.
- Other duties as assigned by the Packaging Development Manager.

**Experience, Qualifications, and Educational Requirements**:

- 2 to 3 years of consumer-packaged goods experience.
- A University degree related to the discipline of marketing/business/commerce.
- Managing projects simultaneously with a high level of organizational skills, accuracy, and attention to detail required.
- Excellent time management with demonstrated ability to multitask and prioritize.
- Confident and competent managing tasks that involve cross functional teams, and time sensitive processes.
- High level of proficiency in using standard computer software packages including Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and flow chart programming.

**Accountabilities for Success**:

- Collaborate and partner with others through actively building positive and productive relationships, working to understand different viewpoints, and treating people of varying backgrounds and perspectives fairly.
- Communicate ideas and information in an effective manner by listening, demonstrating understanding, readily sharing information, and keeping appropriate parties up to date.
- Take initiative to understand and produce results aligned to department priorities and accept responsibility for performance and results.
- Identify causes of problems and develop solutions to make effective, timely decisions.
- Demonstrate a commitment to Trophy’s vision and mission. Understand how individual decisions and actions impact the needs of the department as well as overall corporate goals.

**Work Environment When in the Plant**:

- Exposed to allergens such as peanuts, tree nuts, sulphites, soya, dairy, egg, gluten, and sesame when walking or working.
- Occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions including slippery floors.
- May be exposed to equipment and processing mediums exceeding several hundred degrees Fahrenheit and noise levels exceeding eighty-five decibels.

**Mental Stress**:

- Work and environment are not repetitious/unchanging.
- There is noticeable pressure from deadlines, accuracy, or similar demands.
- Trophy is an equal opportunity employer that values workforce diversity. Diversity is core to our business: by embedding diversity into all aspects of our culture, we maximize the opportunity to achieve sustainable business success and growth. It is the Company’s policy to provide equal employment opportunity to all qualified persons without regard to caste, race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, family status, genetic characteristics, disability, record of offenses, citizenship, or any other characteristics protested by the applicable Federal and Provincial law. Trophy Foods provides equal opportunities in employment, promotions, wages, benefits and all other privileges, terms, and conditions of employment. _
- Trophy Foods is committed to accommodating individuals with disabilities. Accommodation requests relating to any company policy will be addressed as outlined in our Tro