Product Specialist - Packaging & Compliance

• Permanent full time
• Location: Alexandria NSW | Hybrid working
• Newly created position supporting our food safety team

About Ampol

We are proud of our heritage. We have been powering better journeys for all Australians for over 100 years. As Australia’s very own fuel brand we are committed to making those journeys easier by meeting Australia’s needs at every step with the care and service we all deserve. And, as we grow, we continue to evolve, to ensure we have low carbon solutions that will meet the needs of our customers well into the future.

We are proud to be an endorsed employer of choice for women by WORK180. To understand more about how Ampol’s policies, benefits and how we support our people, check out some key female leader career stories on the Work180 website. 

About the role

In this role, you will be tasked with developing best practice solutions and providing expertise for all consumable & private label packaging within Convenience Retail. This role ensures that Ampol meets the requirements of APCO & any state-based packaging legislative requirements.

Working closely with our stakeholders to develop a Roadmap to meet our obligations and be the SME on packaging legislation and standards for the convenience retail business. The role ensures our suppliers adhere to our corporate standards on compliance, reports & drives actions on the status & progress of suppliers to our compliance standards and contributes to the roadmap development for changing legislation and compliance.

Key responsibilities:

• Develop a roadmap to achieve Ampol’s APCO commitments for the 2025 National Packaging Targets and meet Ampol’s Sustainability Strategy goals.
• Create and maintain a current register of all packaging specifications and volumes for consumables and private label products & data entry to APCO PREP portal.
• Identify all current and slated State Based Packaging legislation and collaborate across Merchandise and Operations to ensure key dates are met for AMPOL’s compliance.
• Develop an action plan and provide updates regularly to ensure that Convenience Retail delivers to the compliance commitments made annually to the market.
• Prepare annual APCO Performance Summary report and reporting for Consumer Retail & Corporate as required.
• Complaint management and reporting including regulator and customer complaints, quality issues and investigations for improvement for packaging and food products.
• Ensures adherence to Ampol’s Approved Supplier Program for food packaging and consumables and supports Quality Assurance with supplier compliance to this program.

About you

The successful candidate will have a commercial mindset with a passion for making a positive impact on the business. The ideal candidate will enjoy working with the business to understand their needs and find pragmatic solutions.  

Key skills and experience:

• Tertiary qualification in Packaging Technology/Engineering, Food Science / Engineering, or a related field desirable
• 3+ years’ experience in a product specialist role – Food / Packaging desirable.
• Proven experience in a Quality Assurance type role.
• Packaging specifications experience for food (Private label, QSR, food or food packaging manufacturing).
• Understanding or experience with specific legislation interpretation and compliance (e.g. packaging, environmental, food safety legislation).
• Strong interpersonal skills, capable of influencing and forming relationships across a diverse range of stakeholders.
• Strong communication skills (verbal & written).

Our benefits

• Our total remuneration is competitive. This is across base salary, a performance incentive, employee share offers and a 25% discount on Fuel for two privately used cars!
• We are flexible. Many of our teams have embraced hybrid work, balancing time spent remote working, with time spent at an office to connect and work together where it adds value.
• Remote Working: Support for up to 3 months remote international working (conditional to 5 days paid leave for every 30 days of remote work).
• We value recognition.  We have an internal recognition platform amplifying the achievements of those who do great work and demonstrate our capabilities and values.
• Career development and learning opportunities including LinkedIn Learning and other tailored training solutions.
• Paid Parental Leave - up to 12 weeks paid Parental leave, and up to a year off (unpaid). In addition to the 12 months of unpaid parental leave, employees may apply for a further 12 months of unpaid parental leave (a total of 24 months for each birth)
• BabyCare Package - financial and flexible support for parents transitioning back to work.
• Need some wheels? Novated Lease options are available.
• Invest in your future with the Employee Share Scheme
• Leave Options – We offer wellbeing leave and leave purchasing 
• Care for your Community. Spend one paid day a year volunteering with one of our Ampol Foundation partners. 
• Check out our benefits and policies on the Work180 website.

We’re an equal opportunity workplace. We not only embrace diversity and inclusion; we celebrate what makes you unique. We welcome applications from people of all ages, cultural backgrounds, and diverse sexualities and genders (including if you identify as transgender). We also highly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to apply for roles with Ampol.

Applications close Tuesday 21st May