Jobs at DS Smith

Owns AWS cloud operations, service performance, governance, incident and change management, security compliance, vendor coordination, and continual service improvement. Acts as the primary escalation point for AWS services and partners with Cloud, DevOps, Engineering, and Security teams to maintain reliable, secure, and efficient cloud platforms.

Designs secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective AWS solutions across a complex enterprise. Acts as an AWS subject matter expert, develops architecture standards and roadmaps, governs technical designs, assesses security and costs, supports Infrastructure as Code, oversees third-party suppliers, and provides technical leadership to engineering and project teams. The role also facilitates workshops, drives cloud transformation, and advises stakeholders on emerging technologies and digital platforms.

Lead category strategy and annual business planning for UK&I, combining market and customer insights with internal data to identify growth opportunities, shape innovation priorities, support sales with customer proposals, and monitor regulatory and sustainability developments to drive commercial growth.

Manages permanent point-of-sale display and packaging programs for FMCG clients, serving as the primary client liaison from briefing and quotation through delivery. Coordinates design, estimating, production, logistics, installation, suppliers, budgets, dashboards, and project timelines. Identifies supply-chain, quality, sustainability, and value-improvement opportunities while supporting profitable account growth and strong client relationships. The hybrid UK role requires occasional travel and extensive knowledge of print, display, retail, and shopper marketing.

Manage large strategic B2B accounts as a trusted advisor, building client relationships, reviewing products, delivering commercial insights, conducting service reviews, and supporting tenders and proposals. Identify growth opportunities with Design and Innovation teams, develop account plans, negotiate commercially, present to senior stakeholders, and drive revenue. This is a home-based role requiring regular travel across the UK and Ireland.

Lead pricing strategy, market insight, forecasting and financial analysis for paper, recycling and packaging. Own pricing governance, transfer pricing, margin reporting, budgeting and integrated business planning. Partner with commercial teams to model scenarios, benchmark buying performance, and develop the finance team's commercial capability.

Manage client relationships and oversee prefilled display packaging projects from concept to deployment. Drive project management, reporting, profitability, value-delivery initiatives, and cross-functional improvements in quality, supply chain, and logistics. Maintain client dashboards, conduct site visits, and coordinate internal teams and suppliers to deliver multi-campaign print and POS display solutions.

The UK Corporate Tax Manager will oversee tax compliance, reporting, and process transformation for DS Smith, ensuring accurate tax management across entities and supporting global tax strategies.

Design and govern enterprise infrastructure and network solutions across multi-site international environments. Produce HLDs/LLDs and roadmaps, define LAN/WAN, SD-WAN, cloud connectivity, datacentre and identity patterns. Embed security-by-design (ISO27001/NIS2), provide architecture governance, support project delivery, improve resilience and scalability, and partner with vendors and stakeholders on hybrid on-prem/cloud/manufacturing infrastructure.