MATERIAL PROJECT & SUPPLIER MANAGER PRINTING INK

At Tetra Pak we touch millions of lives every day, ensuring better nutrition and healthier lifestyles through safe packaging and food processing solutions. Guided by our global brand promise, PROTECTS WHAT´S GOOD, we strive to make a difference by protecting food, people and our futures. To do this we need more than smart technology. We need smart people too. People like you, who wants to work with people like us.


Do you want to bring your skills within ink technology and
supplier management to the next level?


The primary responsibility of Supply Chain Operations (SCO) Base Materials at Tetra Pak is to develop an ecosystem of suppliers with capability to secure sustainable and competitive base materials that are delivered to our factories with consistent and customer focused quality level. SCO Base Materials is also supporting and contributing to Tetra Pak´s innovation of new base materials. This role will put you in contact with key internal and external stakeholders across different functional and international borders.
You will report to Technology Manager SCO Base Materials Foil & Ink and be based in Lund.


What you will do
As Material Project & Supplier Manager Printing Ink, you will:
• Develop ink portfolio towards evolving customer quality, sustainability, supply, and cost demands
• Drive ink qualification projects with suppliers and perform supplier audits
• Assure suppliers’ compliance to specifications and push for quality improvement
• Support our sourcing process, specifically supplier scouting, supplier on-boarding ensuring industrial scale-up capability and a secure and long-term base material supply chain.
• Support Tetra Pak´s development of packaging materials and our converting factories in ink related areas


Who you are
You have proven leadership and collaboration skills and ability to manage internal and external relationships in a successful manner. Building relations comes easy to you; you know how to balance listening with persuasion and helpfulness with firmness. We also believe you take initiatives and drive independently towards set targets. You deal successfully with ambiguity, while finding it easy to create structures and keeping track of competing priorities. You are a good communicator towards different organisational levels and excellent at both spoken and written English.


You have a university degree in chemistry at a Master’s level or higher, combined with minimum five years’ experience from working with printing inks, preferably within a large international company. To be successful in this role, you have a solid knowledge in printing inks, printing process (water based flexo) as well as project and supplier management. Experience from packaging industry, material interactions (board-ink-polymer), digital printing and food safety regulation is considered a merit.


We offer you
• Variety of exciting challenges with ample opportunities for development and training in a truly global landscape
• Culture that pioneers spirit of innovation where our engineering genius drives visible result
• Equal opportunity employment experience that values difference and diversity
• Market competitive compensation and benefits with flexible working arrangements




Apply now!
If you are inspired to share our responsibility of protecting food to protecting the planet, apply through Orbis.
This job posting expires on 5th of November 2020.




Tetra Pak is committed to protecting its employees, customers and you, our candidates. We are working towards completing all or most of the steps in the recruitment process for this position by virtual means and further information will be provided as part of the recruitment process.


To know more about the position contact Manager Foil and Ink Technology Catarina Wamsler at +46 46 36 5070


Questions about your application contact Erika Bjerning at +46 46 36 1788


For trade union information contact Sveriges Ingenjörer Ann-Charlotta Ekstrand at +46 46 36 4962 and Unionen Ted Andersson at +46 46 36 4623