What you'll be doing
Join us in shaping the future of Boots Own Brand Health & Wellness! You'll lead the technical development and delivery of innovative new products that make a real difference to our customers' lives. You'll collaborate with passionate experts across the business and trusted external partners to bring ideas to life—overseeing everything from product concept and technical specifications to product verification, compliance, and launch readiness.
With the customer at the heart of every decision, you'll help define what great is in Boots Own Brand Health & Wellness, ensuring each new product is safe, effective and delights our customers.
You will work within the Boots Technical Service Team as the technical lead on new and existing product development projects, driving the timely resolution of technical challenges and ultimately ensuring the products are safe, legal and meet or exceed the expectations of our customers and patients.
You will be the project lead, coordinating the cross‑functional project team to deliver product developments to the agreed timeline, cost and quality. You must be able to engage a variety of technical and commercial stakeholders in project delivery, ensuring they understand key opportunities and risks and are able to support and challenge the business opportunity.
You will support the development of a robust 3‑year pipeline to deliver the continued growth of our categories.
To achieve this, you must maintain a high level of governance, technical competence, and awareness of the industry across key health and wellness product classifications and understand broader global implications.
Key responsibilities
* Accountable for the technical product development activities, ensuring our products are safe, legally compliant and meet our quality, sustainability and ethical standards.
* Technically critique potential product offerings to help build and meet our 3‑year NPD plans.
* Manage the planning and delivery of projects within the portfolio to meet business KPIs (time, cost, quality) through the application of project management best practice.
* Engage all appropriate internal teams (technical, commercial, product, supply) and external experts to ensure successful product delivery and market launch.
* Coordinate and compile the technical product data required for approval and release.
What you'll need to have (our must‑haves)
* Interest in product development or experience developing products from brief to market, ideally within an FMCG environment.
* Excellent skills in relationship development & management both internally and externally with a focus on delivery.
* Previous experience in project management.
* Good technical understanding of consumer health & wellness categories.
* Commercial mindset and proven track record of identifying the right opportunity, gaining business buy‑in and converting this into commercial success.
Rewards designed for you
* Boots Retirement Savings Plan
* Discretionary annual bonus
* Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay and gift card for anyone expecting or adopting a child
* Flexible benefits scheme including option to buy additional holiday, discounted gym membership, life assurance, activity passes and much more.
* Access to free, 24/7 counselling and support through TELUS Health, our Employee Assistance Programme.
Legal and inclusion statements
Boots is a Ban the Box employer and will consider the suitability of applicants with criminal convictions on a case‑by‑case basis. If you require additional support as part of the application and interview process, we are happy to provide reasonable adjustments to help you to be at your best.
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