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Building the future of beauty, personal care and lifestyle brands.\nWe acquire and scale high-potential consumer brands, bringing together the capital, people and operating expertise to turn strong brands into enduring businesses. Our difference is that 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.\nWe’re building a connected house of brands where great people, brands and ideas come together. If you’re excited by building businesses, solving problems and working with a collaborative, entrepreneurial team, we’d love to hear from you\nRequirements\nThe role\nAs a Product Development Manager, you will play a key role in leading innovation, reformulation and product optimization across our Beauty & Personal Care portfolio. Your main focus will be managing multiple projects from concept through to launch, transforming consumer insight, market trends, and commercial opportunities into high-quality, scalable products delivered across global omnichannel markets\nPartnering closely with Brand, Compliance, Supply Chain, Creative, and Commercial teams, and with external manufacturers, laboratories and packaging partners, you will ensure every product is commercially viable, compliant, profitable and scalable. This role is ideal for someone who is commercially minded and highly organised, with a passion for developing exceptional beauty products. Your work will directly shape our Beauty & Personal Care portfolio, helping to bring exciting new products to customers around the world.\n*We’re open to both short-term and long-term cover arrangements for this temporary position\nKey Responsibilities\nInnovation & Portfolio Development\nLead multiple NPD projects across skincare, personal care, cosmetics, wellness and beauty tools from concept through commercial launch.\n\nDrive innovation pipelines and product roadmaps, using consumer insight, market trends, competitor analysis, and commercial data to identify new opportunities.\n\nDevelop product concepts and briefs that balance consumer needs, brand strategy, commercial viability, and speed to market.\n\nOptimise the product portfolio through reformulation, product enhancements, premiumisation, range rationalisation, and margin improvement.\n\nBuild business cases, define pricing recommendations, and monitor product performance against commercial and innovation KPIs.\n\nTechnical Development, Claims & Consumer Validation\nManage formulation and reformulation programmes with manufacturing partners, from technical brief through to commercial production.\n\nEvaluate ingredients, formulations, packaging compatibility, performance, manufacturability, and cost to ensure products meet consumer, technical, and commercial requirements.\n\nLead product benchmarking, consumer testing, and validation programmes to inform development and support substantiated product claims in partnership with Brand and Compliance.\n\nSupplier Management & Commercialisation\nManage OEM, ODM, laboratory, and packaging partners, leading supplier performance, commercial negotiations, and continuous improvement initiatives.\n\nPartner with Brand, Commercial, Supply Chain, and Creative teams to deliver commercially viable products and packaging across retail, wholesale, DTC, and marketplace channels.\n\nDefine product specifications, quality standards, and production readiness, using post-launch performance and consumer feedback to drive continuous improvement.\n\nProgramme Management & Leadership\nLead project governance, critical paths, budgets, risks, and development documentation, ensuring projects are delivered on time and to agreed objectives.\n\nCoordinate internal and external stakeholders to resolve challenges, maintain momentum, and ensure successful product launches.\n\nChampion continuous improvement across product development processes, fostering a collaborative, consumer-centric, and data-driven innovation culture.\n\nAbout You\n2-6 years’ experience in beauty, cosmetics, skincare, personal care or wellness product development, with proven end-to-end ownership of multiple concurrent NPD projects.\n\nStrong hands-on experience in formulation and reformulation, consumer and competitor benchmarking, product evaluation and claims substantiation.\n\nExperience working with global manufacturers, laboratories and packaging suppliers, with sound knowledge of stability, compatibility, scale-up and commercial manufacturing processes.\n\nStrong commercial judgement, including experience balancing consumer performance, cost, margin, speed to market and omnichannel requirements.\n\nExcellent project, critical path and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional teams and manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.\n\nPassion for beauty innovation, consumer behaviour and category growth, supported by confident use of insight, trend and performance data.\n\nAvenir Collective is proud to be a disability-committed employer registered in the UK. 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