NPD Manager

Our client are looking for a New Product Development Manager to join their team at the London Head Office. This permanent position offers a fantastic opportunity for an experienced professional to oversee product development and technology transfer activities, ensuring quality and regulatory standards are met, while fostering innovation and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities:

• Team Leadership: Manage, coach, and develop a team of three direct reports, ensuring effective resource planning and prioritisation of project activities.
• Product Transfers: Lead and coordinate product transfer activities between manufacturing sites and external partners, ensuring successful scale-up and technology transfer from development to commercial production.
• New Product Development (NPD): Support the development of new products from concept through to commercial launch, translating customer, market, and business requirements into technical solutions.
• Product Formulation: Develop and optimise formulations for new and existing products, ensuring they meet quality, regulatory, customer, and manufacturing requirements.
• Packaging Development: Lead the design and development of new packaging solutions, coordinating packaging trials and validation activities.
• Technical Project Management: Manage multiple technical projects simultaneously, ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget, and to agreed quality standards.
• Quality, Compliance & Continuous Improvement: Ensure all products comply with relevant regulatory, safety, and quality requirements, and drive continuous improvement initiatives.

Job Requirements:

• Degree in Chemistry, Food Science, Pharmaceutical Science, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, or a related technical discipline.
• Significant experience in product development, formulation, and technical project management.
• Experience leading product transfer and scale-up activities.
• Proven people management experience.
• Experience in managing packaging development projects.
• Strong understanding of quality and regulatory requirements.
• Desirable: Postgraduate qualification in a relevant scientific discipline, and project management qualification (PRINCE2, PMP, APMP or equivalent).
• Desirable: Experience within manufacturing, FMCG, pharmaceutical, healthcare, chemical, or related industries.
• Key Skills: Leadership and people management, product development and formulation expertise, project management, technical problem-solving, stakeholder management, packaging technology knowledge, communication and presentation skills, risk assessment and decision making, continuous improvement mindset, and commercial awareness.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Professional development and training opportunities
• Supportive and collaborative work environment
• Employee benefits package

If you are an experienced Technical Manager with a strong background in product development and technology transfer, we would love to hear from you. Apply now to join our client's forward-thinking and dynamic team in London.