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About the Role
The Head of Product leads end-to-end product strategy, innovation, and lifecycle management across Avenir Collective's portfolio of beauty, personal care, and lifestyle brands. This group-level leadership role defines and scales product capability, ensuring differentiated, consumer-led products that drive brand growth and competitive advantage. Reporting to the Chief Brand Officer, this role translates consumer insight and market opportunity into market-leading product portfolios, owning the innovation roadmap, product lifecycle, commercial evaluation, and supplier partnerships.
Responsibilities
- Own the product strategy and innovation roadmap across the portfolio, aligned to brand, consumer, and commercial priorities.
- Identify and assess new product, category, and portfolio opportunities using consumer insight, market trends, competitive intelligence, and commercial analysis.
- Lead portfolio prioritization and investment decisions, developing business cases and ensuring resources focus on high-value opportunities.
- Review portfolio performance and drive optimization, renovation, reformulation, rationalization, and investment decisions.
- Own the end-to-end product lifecycle from ideation and development through launch, optimization, and retirement.
- Drive innovation across formulations, ingredients, formats, packaging, and product experience, with a focus on beauty and personal care.
- Establish effective stage-gate, project management, and product governance processes to deliver products on time, within budget, and against commercial objectives.
- Partner with Brand, Commercial, Operations, Supply Chain, and Finance to ensure products are differentiated, commercially viable, scalable, and successfully launched.
- Own product quality, regulatory compliance, testing, claims substantiation, labeling, and documentation.
- Develop strategic supplier and manufacturing partnerships that support innovation, quality, speed to market, and commercial value.
- Own product costing, margin, and development investment governance, ensuring product decisions deliver sustainable commercial returns.
- Oversee product IP and integrity, including product naming, trademarks, and protection of proprietary innovation.
- Build and develop a high-performing Product function with strong technical, consumer, and commercial capability.
- Establish scalable processes and ways of working that support portfolio growth and the integration of future acquired brands.
Requirements
- Proven experience leading Product or Product Development within beauty, personal care, consumer goods, or adjacent lifestyle categories.
- Demonstrated success developing and launching commercially successful consumer products from concept through to market.
- Strong understanding of beauty and personal care product development, regulatory requirements, supplier management, and quality standards.
- Experience building innovation pipelines and managing complex product portfolios across multiple brands.
- Demonstrated experience developing commercial business cases, product costing models, and investment recommendations that balance consumer value with commercial return.
- Strong commercial acumen, including pricing strategy, margin management, and portfolio optimization.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, with experience influencing cross-functional teams and senior leadership.
- Demonstrated ability to build scalable product processes, governance frameworks, and high-performing teams within a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.
- Passion for innovation, consumer insight, and developing products that strengthen brand equity and deliver sustainable commercial growth.
Skills
- Product Strategy
- Product Innovation
- Product Lifecycle Management
- Consumer Insight
- Market Trends Analysis
- Competitive Intelligence
- Commercial Analysis
- Portfolio Prioritization
- Business Case Development
- Product Development
- Formulation Development
- Ingredient Sourcing
- Packaging Development
- Stage-Gate Process Management
- Project Management
- Product Governance
- Regulatory Compliance
- Supplier Management
- Costing Models
- Margin Management
- Intellectual Property Management
- Team Leadership
- Stakeholder Management
- Cross-functional Collaboration
Location
- Holborn, London
Work Type
- Full-time
- Permanent
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Head of Product
- Leadership
Salary/Compensations
- £80,000 - £90,000 per year
Benefits
- 30 days holiday + 8 UK bank holidays
- Pension contribution Scheme – 5% from you, 3% from us
- Private Medical Insurance – Includes travel, vision & dental (Vitality)
- Work from Abroad – One month per year, anywhere in the world
- Bonus Scheme – Discretionary bonus, based on individual and company performance
- Mental Health Support – Free, confidential therapy via Spill
- Opportunity for International Travel
- Flexi-Fridays – Finish early one Friday per month
- Avenir Events – Quarterly meetups, celebrations & socials
- Vibrant Office – Runway East, Bloomsbury
About the Company
- Avenir Collective builds the future of beauty, personal care, and lifestyle brands.
- We acquire and scale high-potential consumer brands, bringing together capital, people, and operating expertise.
- We are operators actively managing our brands and providing the capabilities, infrastructure, and expertise they need to scale, while preserving the product, purpose, and consumer connection that make each brand special.
- We’re building a connected house of brands where great people, brands, and ideas come together.
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.