Head of NPD

Always bringing the EXTRA to the ordinary!

You'll be a versatile and creative leader, with extensive product development and leadership experience, within luxury beauty and wellness brands. Responsible for NPD & EPD product portfolio development, commercialisation and leading the full lifecycle strategy. This is a pivotal role that sits at the heart of our NPD process, where you'll be responsible for managing the operational flow of new product launches – from early-stage planning through to production and delivery.

With a high skill operational mindset you will be an expert at delivering projects, with a combination of strategic thinking, cross-functional leadership, innovation, and execution excellence. You will oversee product teams, ensuring alignment with business goals, and drive the successful delivery of products to market.

What you’ll need:

• Strong track record in implementing, driving and developing a successful NPD strategy
• 3+ years of experience in a similar operations or project management role, ideally within cosmetics, beauty, or FMCG
• Experience of conceptualizing, developing and launching market leading beauty and wellness products
• Proven success creating category growth
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in brand / product management
• Proven experience in beauty or wellbeing product development, with a track record of successful launches.
• Able to analyse and interrogate market research data, turning insight into actionable projects
• Excellent project management and problem-solving skills with strong attention to detail
• Highly numerate with strong commercial awareness and financial acumen
• Collaborative Leader with 5 years+ in a leadership role
• Experience and understanding of beauty industry trends and consumer behaviour 

• Generous employee discount
• Company pension
• Group Life Assurance
• Long service benefits
• Paid community days
• 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• Employee Assistance Programme