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Head of NPD

Salary
Competitive
Location
London
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full Time

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