As a member of the DS Smith team you know innovation plays a critical role in helping us stay ahead of our competitors.
With their unwavering commitment to excellence, vision, and creativity, our Innovation and R&D teams identify new ideas, sources of growth, development opportunities and how we can maximize the potential of paper and cardboard. While this work is obviously good for us, it also makes change happen across our industry.
Collectively we are leading the transition to a low carbon, circular economy. It is what inspires our teams across the world. And we hope it will inspire you too.
Never thought the world of paper and box-making would be so dynamic! That there would be so many opportunities to add value to our customers’ supply chains and society at large.
Marjolein Lem
Group Innovation Program Director
DS Smith has an entrepreneurial environment where individuals matter and there is a short distance between the shop floor and the top of the organisation.
Magnus Renman
Group R&D Director
Your role
You'll help us stay ahead of the competition by working with ourcustomers to solve their needs of today and tomorrow. Drive innovation and growth within our company, whether that isby designing more sustainable packaging solutions and presenting them to customers,working on the development of innovative new materials,onboarding new business or driving sales through technical innovation.
There are a variety of different roles to work in, including Design for Innovation Specialist, European Design Manager, R&D Research Engineer and many more.
Are you ready for the next stage of your career?
We're looking for the naturally curious with ambition to tackle some of the world’s largest challenges.
You will love to learn and be challenged and look for environments that will support you to grow.
Take ownership for your workstreams.
You're a creative problem solver, comfortable with the ambiguity of innovation, research and development.
Be fascinated by innovative new projects and enjoy thinking about the long-term horizon of innovation and R&D.
Question existing processes: you aim to continually improve your own methods, and the success rate of your work and projects.
You're resilient and enjoy working in a face paced environment.
A team player who embraces our core values of safety, quality, diversity, and inclusion.
We tackle thorny challenges in innovation every day. Our scale and position in the economy means that the innovations we create have real impact on creating a more sustainable world.
Patricia Wyllie
Partnerships & Services Growth Director
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