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About the Role

As a Product Development Manager, you will lead innovation, reformulation, and product optimization for the Beauty & Personal Care portfolio. You will manage projects from concept to launch, transforming insights into high-quality, scalable products for global markets. This role requires close collaboration with internal teams and external partners to ensure product viability, compliance, and profitability.

Responsibilities

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.
Develop product concepts and briefs balancing consumer needs, brand strategy, commercial viability, and speed to market.
Optimize the product portfolio through reformulation, enhancements, premiumisation, rationalisation, and margin improvement.
Build business cases, define pricing recommendations, and monitor product performance against KPIs.
Manage formulation and reformulation programmes with manufacturing partners from technical brief to commercial production.
Evaluate ingredients, formulations, packaging compatibility, performance, manufacturability, and cost.
Lead product benchmarking, consumer testing, and validation programmes to inform development and support claims.
Manage OEM, ODM, laboratory, and packaging partners, leading supplier performance, negotiations, and improvement initiatives.
Partner with Brand, Commercial, Supply Chain, and Creative teams to deliver viable products and packaging across channels.
Define product specifications, quality standards, and production readiness, using post-launch feedback for continuous improvement.
Lead project governance, critical paths, budgets, risks, and development documentation.
Coordinate internal and external stakeholders to resolve challenges and ensure successful product launches.
Champion continuous improvement across product development processes, fostering a collaborative, consumer-centric, and data-driven innovation culture.

Requirements

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.
Experience in consumer and competitor benchmarking, product evaluation and claims substantiation.
Experience working with global manufacturers, laboratories and packaging suppliers.
Sound knowledge of stability, compatibility, scale-up and commercial manufacturing processes.
Strong commercial judgement, 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 and manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Confident use of insight, trend and performance data.

Skills

Product Development
Innovation
Reformulation
Product Optimization
NPD Project Management
Consumer Insight Analysis
Market Trend Analysis
Competitor Analysis
Commercial Viability Assessment
Product Compliance
Formulation Management
Supplier Management
Stakeholder Management
Project Governance
Critical Path Management
Budget Management
Risk Management
Data Analysis

Location

Work Type

Hybrid
Full-time

Experience Level

Mid-level
Senior-level

Benefits

Generous Holiday: 30 days paid leave plus 8 UK Bank Holidays.
Flexible Working: Hybrid working options.
Pension Scheme: Employee 5% and Employer 3% contribution.
CycleScheme: Save 25-39% on cycle gear.
Techscheme: Save up to 12% on technology.
Private Medical Insurance: Vitality Health insurance with travel, vision, and dental coverage.
Flexi-Fridays: Option to finish early one Friday per month.
Discretionary bonus based on company and individual performance.
Work Abroad: Option to work abroad for one month per year.
Mental Health Support: Free access to confidential therapists and counsellors via Spill.
Events: Quarterly All-Hands meetings, celebrations, and sponsored team activities.

About the Company

Avenir Collective is building the future of beauty, personal care, and lifestyle brands.
We are creating a new kind of consumer brand platform focused on trusted products, long-term value, and meaningful growth.
We are excited by building brands, solving problems, and working alongside collaborative, driven people.

Equal Opportunity

Avenir Collective is proud to be a disability-committed employer registered in the UK.
If you identify as having a disability and meet all of the criteria set out in the job description, we would like to support you through the interview stage.
We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive work environment where all employees and applicants can flourish.