AdresseEvergeen Garden Care is the leading garden care company outside North America, producing high quality garden care products designed to help people create their own green oasis amid the rush of modern life. We believe in the beauty of a green space - or oasis - whether it's a garden, a balcony or potted plants indoors, and we want to inspire anyone, anywhere to be able easily to create and maintain their own.
Established in 2017 by the carve-out acquisition of the international business of the Scott's Miracle-Gro Company, Evergreen Garden Care is a passionate 800-strong team, dedicated to ensuring that gardeners of all experience levels can easily grow and protect their lawn, plants, fruits or vegetables to make their own green oasis as beautiful as it can be. With market-leading brands like Miracle-Gro, Fertiligene, Substral or Pokon in every market where we operate, we deliver a full range of garden care products to gardeners in the UK, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Poland, the Nordics, Australia and New Zealand. Our focus is on developing the best-known brands and launching the most exciting and consumer-relevant innovations as we grow our new company.
General Summary
This internship position is responsible for participating in group packaging development projects and the improvement of existing packaging in our plant food & lawn product category (fertilizer, compost).
The main projects thematic will be around sustainability:
- Plastic reduction
- Recyclability improvement
- Packaging harmonization & simplification
The Packaging internship must successfully interact with multifunctional & multi-cultural teams: group R&D, Marketing, Procurement, Regulatory and Supply Chain in a marketing driven consumer goods company.
All these activities must be managed in a pro-active manner to assure that environmental, product, and safety is not compromised.
This internship position :
- reports to group packaging lead,
- is based in Limonest (Lyon West North, FR),
- is for a duration of 6 months –from March / April to end of August / September 2024.
Main tasks
- Define packaging brief with marketing
- Identify appropriate technical solutions that answer marketing brief
- Exchange with suppliers
- Select best technical solutions & test them
- Manage manufacturing trials with plants
- Manage packaging & finished good specifications and BOMs
- Approve new packaging on time, on cost, on specification
- Participate & report work progress to project teams
Minimum Requirements
Education:
Bachelor degree + ongoing studies in Packaging or Mechanical industry
Experience:
Any previous internship in a consumer good company in a packaging role is welcome
Knowledge:
Technical knowledge obtained from the ongoing study of post bachelor / engineering school in Packaging or Mechanical.
Ability to apply fundamental technician principles for the evaluation and optimization of Evergreen packaging
Through knowledge of specifically flexible plastic, papers, rigid plastics used for consumer goods packaging.
Skills and Abilities:
Must be fluent in French & English
Ability to use current PC-based software (Microsoft Windows, Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Outlook, etc.)
Competencies:
Demonstrates drive and commitment
Demonstrates adaptability
Demonstrates "practical" spirit
Strong written and verbal communication
Display team commitment
Work efficiently, well-organized, task-oriented
Use technical and functional expertise
