Product Development Manager - Beauty & Personal Care
HybridLondon, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Lead multiple NPD projects across skincare, personal care, cosmetics, wellness, and beauty tools from concept through commercial launch. Drive innovation pipelines and product roadmaps using consumer insight, market trends, competitor analysis, and commercial data to identify opportunities. Develop product concepts and briefs that balance consumer needs, brand strategy, commercial viability, and speed to market. Manage formulation and reformulation programmes with manufacturing partners, evaluating ingredients, packaging compatibility, and cost to ensure products meet technical and commercial requirements. Lead product benchmarking, consumer testing, and validation programmes to inform development and support substantiated product claims. Manage OEM, ODM, laboratory, and packaging partners, leading supplier performance, commercial negotiations, and continuous improvement initiatives. Lead project governance, critical paths, budgets, risks, and development documentation, ensuring projects are delivered on time and to agreed objectives. Coordinate internal and external stakeholders to resolve challenges and maintain momentum.
Required Qualifications
- 4–8 years' experience in beauty, cosmetics, skincare, personal care or wellness product development
- proven end-to-end ownership of multiple concurrent NPD projects
- Strong hands-on experience in formulation and reformulation
- consumer and competitor benchmarking
- product evaluation and claims substantiation
- Experience working with global manufacturers, laboratories and packaging suppliers
- sound knowledge of stability, compatibility and scale-up and commercial manufacturing processes
- Strong commercial judgement
- experience balancing consumer performance, cost, margin, speed to market and omnichannel requirements
- Excellent project, critical path and stakeholder management skills
- ability to influence cross-functional teams
- manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Passion for beauty innovation, consumer behaviour and category growth
- confident use of insight, trend and performance data
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