Senior Supplements Development Manager - NPD

Strategy & Category Development

• Partner with the Chief NPD and Innovation Officer and cross-functional teams to shape the rolling three-to-five-year supplements strategy, portfolio architecture and innovation roadmap, translating these into clear priorities for the contract period.
• Drive category shifting innovation, with a bluesky approach to newness for ELEMIS, whilst ensuring on brand execution.
• Use consumer research, scientific developments, competitor benchmarking and market and channel insights to identify differentiated on-brand opportunities, including relevant ingredients, formats and unmet consumer needs.
• Build opportunity assessments and work with commercial stakeholders to build business cases covering target consumers, positioning, evidence, price, route to market, investment, forecast demand and commercial returns; recommend clear go or no-go decisions.

Compliance

• Lead early feasibility assessments for each market with Technical and Regulatory, Quality and regional teams, covering ingredient eligibility, daily intake, safety, claims, labelling and any market-specific authorisations or notifications required.
• Assess whether a shared formulation and pack can meet global markets' needs or whether local adaptations are necessary, including differences within the UK where relevant; make the implications for cost, timing and supply clear before approval.
• Evaluate consumer acceptance, channel requirements, landed costs, margin and supply arrangements in each market, ensuring commercial and regulatory viability inform investment decisions from the outset.

Product Development:

• Own end-to-end development through the commercial gate process, creating clear briefs for formulation, ingredient specifications, serving size, delivery format, packaging, target costs and product performance.
• Ascertain need for off-shelf solutions or bespoke recipes depending on need for tactical or strategic plays.
• Work with qualified external resources where needed and manufacturers to assess evidence, ingredient quality, effective intake levels, bioavailability, tolerability, interactions and suitability for the intended consumer.
• Coordinate prototype reviews, sensory and consumer testing, stability and shelf-life studies, packaging compatibility and appropriate quality testing. Agree acceptance criteria and ensure results inform development decisions.
• Partner with Technical and Regulatory, Brand and Education to establish substantiated, market-appropriate claims and positioning early. Coordinate additional research or trials where justified, with suitable specialist oversight.
• Lead critical path analysis and planning, maintaining an integrated launch plan with clear owners, dependencies, decision points and risks; escalate issues with practical recommendations
• Work with internal packaging and creative teams to develop on brand designs and product execution.

Sustainability Responsibility

• Ensure all launches are aligned with ELEMIS sustainability goals and ambitions to support our environmental pledges and LRP.
• With an appreciation for packaging, work collaboratively with the Sustainability Team to ensure a careful analysis of pack types are carried out for each launch to ensure the Brand arrives at the right decision that balances a luxury execution with sustainability.
• Ensure ingredients are selected with consideration of their efficacy but also their environmental impact and support the Brands CSR ambitions.

ELEMIS have created a brand new role in our NPD team for a Senior Supplement Development Manager. Our current offering is rather limited to a couple of SKU's, meaning you will spearhead the development of something which has 'opportunity' written all over it! Help us to imagine what's possible!

As Senior Supplements Development Manager, you will lead the development and commercialisation of science-led supplements, from strategic opportunity assessment and concept creation through to manufacture, launch and post-launch review. You will build a commercially viable omni-channel pipeline for UK & US, aligned with the brand, consumer needs and long-range innovation plans.

Reporting to the Chief NPD and Innovation Officer, you will work with Technical and Regulatory, Quality, Operations, Supply Chain, Brand, Education, Commercial Finance and regional teams. You will translate product ambition into evidence-led formulations, effective supplier partnerships and launches delivered to agreed quality, cost and timing requirements.

• Demonstrable end-to-end development and launch experience in food supplements, dietary supplements or nutraceuticals, with a strong track record of commercial delivery.
• Practical experience assessing and delivering UK and US supplement opportunities, working with regulatory specialists on formulation, safety, evidence, claims and labelling.
• A relevant degree in nutrition, food science, biochemistry, pharmaceutical science or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant technical experience.
• Strong understanding of supplement ingredients, formats, formulation constraints, scientific substantiation, stability testing and relevant food safety and manufacturing quality standards.
• Proven experience managing contract manufacturers and ingredient suppliers, negotiating commercial requirements and resolving quality, capacity and delivery challenges.
• Strong strategic judgement, financial literacy and project management skills, including business cases, budgets, cost of goods, margins and critical path planning.
• Experience within a premium consumer health, wellness or beauty brand is desirable. Strong working knowledge of Excel, PowerPoint and project management tools is essential.
• Has the ability to deal with fast paced environments and ambiguity