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Nicola Bartlett — Packaging Innovation Manager

Name: Nicola Bartlett
Job title: Packaging Innovation Manager
Employer: Samworth Brothers
Qualification: Degree Level
Salary Range: Competitive
  • What does a Packaging Innovation Manager do?  Explores the future of packaging and works with various stakeholders to support innovative and sustainable packaging changes that benefit the environment.
  • Describe your job in 20-25 words.
  • Give a description of a day in the life of a Packaging Innovation Manager.
  • After you qualified, did it take long to find a job?
  • How did you end up in this job? Chance, being interested in how packaging helps promote products and wanting to make sustainable changes to better the planet.
  • What advice would you give to someone thinking of pursuing this career?
  • What’s the best thing about your job? Future thinking, no day is the same, problem solving
  • If you had the chance to do it all over again, what would you do the same / differently?
  • What was your starting salary? £19,000
  • How long have you been doing your job? 8 Years
  • Has your salary changed since then – if not do you see salary progression?
  • Where do you see yourself in five years time?
  • If you could give your 16 year old self some career advice, what would it be?
  • Did you buy something special with your first pay cheque? A washing machine