Packaging Sustainability Lead

Application Deadline: 13 February 2026

Department: New Product Development

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Poland

Description

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Are you searching for a career with bags of variety, in an environment that celebrates differences and empowers collaboration, which values people and will encourage you to make an impact? Do you want the freedom to explore, and the opportunities to find new ways and to innovate? If so,  TwiningsOvo delivers.  

We’re looking for people who don’t just come here to get the job done, but who have a real passion for the brand and a desire to do the best job they can. In return, we offer an inspiring package of employee benefits - to show just how much we value you. This role will offer you the scope for growth and the tools to aim high.

The Packaging Sustainability Lead will play a pivotal role in shaping Twinings’ approach to sustainable packaging and driving progress both towards our net zero commitments and our targets relating to minimising the environmental impact of packaging. This position is responsible for leading upfront packaging solution exploration to address sustainability challenges, ensuring alignment with legislative requirements, corporate environmental goals, and industry best practices. The role will lead the creation and delivery of Twinings’ sustainable packaging strategy, ensuring full integration into the overall packaging strategy and alignment with the company’s broader sustainability objectives.  This new role will monitor and interpret the evolving legislative landscape, enabling Twinings to proactively meet external and internal targets. Acting as a bridge between sustainability ambitions and practical execution, the Packaging Sustainability Lead will collaborate closely with internal cross-functional teams, external partners and industry experts to develop and deploy the implementation of sustainable packaging solutions that deliver both business and environmental objectives whilst ensuring that product protection and consumer expectations are met. The role will support our longer-term innovation pipeline to ensure that sustainability is kept at the fore front of development. 

Key Responsibilities

Strategy Development and Execution  

• In collaboration with Head of Packaging Change and Exploration and NPD & Supply Innovation Director, provide the technical oversight to develop Twinings sustainability strategy for packaging, taking into account legislative requirements and the wider business landscape. The strategy will need to reflect the evolving legislative landscape and be revised and updated accordingly.  
• Work with Procurement and SI&S teams to ensure that packaging sustainability is integrated into the Net Zero strategy.  
• Collaborate with SI&S Director (and others) to ensure that packaging sustainability strategy is assimilated into the Twinings Sustainability strategy  
• Using knowledge of market trends, packaging industry, material specifications and legislation develop & own the roadmap of prioritised actions, with defined timelines and deliverables to ensure Twinings packaging is fit for purpose in a continually evolving environmental landscape.  
• Lead and drive cross-functional alignment between Procurement, Pack Engineering, Regulatory and Manufacturing teams to ensure that the roadmap is translated into tangible actions that deliver change. 

Packaging Circularity & Net-Zero Initiatives: 

• Support Procurement by identifying, scoping out and making recommendations on specification changes that align with net zero ambitions and take ownership for ensuring the business has clarity on carbon impact from these opportunities.  
• Define milestones to enable monitoring of progress towards published targets  
• Focus on exploration of circular solutions 

  Legislation & Compliance  In collaboration with internal Regulatory team, and others: 

• Support with the Monitoring and interpreting of evolving sustainability legislation, including but not limited to PPWR, EUDR, Net zero requirements. 
• Assess the impact of regulations on packaging design, supply chain, and production and lead the communication of these requirements to the relevant functions. 
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to understand the changes that are required  
• Own & Lead the development of a sustainable packaging compliance roadmap and work with all relevant functions to implement the requirements.  The role will also need to ensure regular review of the roadmap to ensure this remains fit for purpose.  
• Conduct horizon scanning in collaboration