Print System Director R&D

Job Description

About Us

Domino Printing Sciences provides industrial printing expertise and reliable solutions to help the world’s manufacturers be sustainable and cut waste, while attracting, informing, and protecting consumers. Global manufacturers across the food and beverage, life sciences, personal care, agrochemical, and industrial sectors trust Domino to support them with innovative coding, marking, and digital printing solutions. Our products help ensure the success of manufacturers’ products by allowing them to create differentiated packaging, protect against counterfeiting, and ensure governmental and regulatory compliance. From best before dates on eggs, to serialised identifying codes on medicines, to batch codes on electronic components, to competition codes in confectionery, Domino helps to enable product safety, improved supply chain management and brand protection.

About the Role

This role will be part of the newly formed R&D value stream leadership team. The main aims of the role are to create and lead a Group wide team with responsibility for the technical architecture and fulfilment of printing systems. This role requires the ability to influence and coach across cultural boundaries. You will also be required to work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders to ensure our print systems are competitive in the marketplace.

You will be expected to build a knowledge base, technology roadmap and acquisition plans for print systems. You will also work closely with peers and other senior stakeholders to ensure end to end alignment and drive the ‘One R&D’ mentality across Domino. You must be comfortable with some ambiguity and complexity and be able to make decisions in those environments – seeing failure as a learning opportunity.

About You

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys and has proven experience of driving and delivering large scale change. We are looking for someone with a growth mindset, who is always looking for opportunities for them and their team to learn and improve.

You will need a relevant, technical background and be able to build credibility with a team of subject matter experts, You will be responsible for asking the right questions, and challenging current processes to drive new solutions. Your role is not to solve the problems from an expert mindset but to empower your team to take ownership of their work, creating a safe environment for them to deliver their best work. The ideal candidate will have excellent people management skills and be able to build relationships across functions. We want someone who is passionate about talent development, and is enthusiastic about building, coaching, and developing their team.

What you can expect

As a talented individual working at Domino you can expect a competitive salary and a generous benefits package, including 25 days basic holiday (with the opportunity to buy and sell), a discretionary bonus, life insurance, medical insurance and access to the Green Car Scheme to name a few!

We recognise that flexible homeworking can be beneficial and at Domino we want people to feel able to own the way they work. For many of us this, this might be coming into the office most days, just a couple of times a week, or perhaps fortnightly. What’s important is that we enable you get the best from us and for us to get the best from you, whether that’s from your home office or on site, as long as we continue to collaborate and enable great outcomes for our customers.

We are a highly successful company, we’re large enough to offer career development opportunities yet small enough for your contribution to be readily recognised and rewarded. Our culture is built on our core values, Collaboration, Listening, Expertise, Ambition and Responsibility. We think Domino is a great place to work and if you join us, you’ll find yourself part of organisation which really cares about their people, as well as offering challenging and rewarding careers.

Positions may be at an advanced stage of the recruitment process and can close at any time.