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Join us in shaping the future of Boots Own Brand Health & Wellness! You'll lead the technical development and delivery of innovative new products that make a real difference to our customers' lives. You'll collaborate with passionate experts across the business and trusted external partners to bring ideas to life—overseeing everything from product concept and technical specifications to product verification, compliance, and launch readiness. With the customer at the heart of every decision, you'll help define what great is in Boots Own Brand Health & Wellness, ensuring each new product is safe, effective delight our customers. You will work within the Boots Technical Service Team as the technical lead on new and existing product development projects, driving the timely resolution of technical challenges and ultimately ensuring the products are safe, legal and meet / exceed the expectations of our customers and patients. You will be the project lead, coordinating the cross-functional project team to deliver product developments to the agreed timeline, cost and quality. You must be able engage a variety of technical & commercial stakeholders in project delivery, ensuring they understand key opportunities and risks and are able support/ challenge the business opportunity. You will support the development of a robust 3-year pipeline to deliver the continued growth of their categories. To achieve this, you must maintain a high level of governance, technical competence, and awareness of the industry across key health and wellness product classifications (General Products, Food / Dietary Supplements, Medical Devices & Cosmetics) and understand broader global implications.
Job Responsibility:
Accountable for the technical product development activities including ensuring our products are safe, legally compliant and meet our quality, sustainability and ethical standards
Technically critiquing potential product offerings to help build and meet our 3 year NPD plans
Managing the planning and delivery of projects within the portfolio to meet business KPIs (time, cost, quality) through the application of project management best practice including planning, governance, issue and risk management, change control, stakeholder management, utilization of systems, escalation and accurate up to date provision of project data and reporting
Responsible for engagement of all appropriate internal teams (e.g. technical, commercial, product, supply) and experts (e.g. regulatory for product registration) to ensure successful product delivery/market launch
Coordinating and compiling the technical product data required for technical product approval and release.
Requirements:
Minimum of 3 years product development experience with a proven track record in developing products from brief to market, ideally within FMCG environment
Excellent skills in relationship development & management both internally and externally with a focus on delivery
Previous experience in project management
Good technical understanding of consumer health & wellness categories
Commercial mindset and proven track record of identifying the right opportunity, gaining business buy-in and converting this into commercial success
Nice to have:
Science degree
Project management qualification e.g., APM or Prince2
What we offer:
Boots Retirement Savings Plan
Discretionary annual bonus
Generous employee discounts
Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay and gift card for anyone expecting or adopting a child
Flexible benefits scheme including option to buy additional holiday, discounted gym membership, life assurance, activity passes and much more
Access to free, 24/7 counselling and support through TELUS Health, our Employee Assistance Programme