Jobs at DS Smith

Manage a portfolio of key FMCG and industrial customers across the UK, executing account plans to drive revenue growth, margin improvement, retention, and loyalty. Develop strategic customer partnerships, coordinate sustainable packaging solutions with design and innovation teams, manage sales forecasts and CRM metrics, and collaborate with sales and operations teams. This remote role requires regular travel for client pitches, site visits, and stakeholder meetings.

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.

Leads the creative vision, standards, and operating model for a global design studio supporting POS, retail activation, merchandising, and shopper marketing. Builds multidisciplinary teams, develops capabilities, drives AI and automation adoption, advises senior clients, shapes creative strategies, and ensures solutions achieve customer, brand, sustainability, manufacturability, and commercial objectives.

Leads OCC performance, technical improvement, digitalisation, and technology investment across a European paper mill network. The role analyzes operational KPIs, identifies opportunities to improve fibre yield, quality, capacity, energy, and cost, supports major OCC preparation projects, evaluates emerging technologies, manages supplier and RFQ processes, develops CAPEX plans, and coordinates implementation across mills while influencing stakeholders without direct authority.

Leads information technology governance and cyber risk activities, including security awareness training, phishing exercises, cyber scenario simulations, customer security questionnaires, supplier assurance, risk registers, and ISO 27001 control documentation. Advises stakeholders on security standards and regulations, coordinates risk reviews, supports supplier due diligence, and drives continuous improvement across IT and manufacturing environments.

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.

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.