Senior Global Innovation Manager / Futures

Tangle Teezer is a global brand on a simple mission: to give everyone healthier-looking hair with less breakage since 2007. Our gentle brushes are tools for every hair type—from straight to coily—and every routine, helping you go from detangling and blow-drying to styling. Tangle Teezer is a proud brand within BIC World, a community of iconic and inventive brands that have created simple, joyful products for over 75 years.

As part of BIC World, we’re dedicated to reimagining everyday essentials in new, sustainable, and responsible ways. Our culture thrives on a 'roll up your sleeves' mindset, empowering self-starters and innovators to take ownership of their careers and make a meaningful, global impact.

Do you have a passion for shaping the future? This is a unique opportunity to explore white spaces to define what are the next generation of products for Tangle Teezer. With a proven track record operating at senior manager level, you’ll bring strong experience in leading end-to-end product development from concept through to launch. You will be happy working with ambiguity to define new product spaces and the role our brand can play.

In this role you will be responsible for managing the end-to-end process of new product development for your projects, from shaping and testing concepts, through to successful product launch, you’ll champion excellence at every stage of the product journey. Working cross-functionally is key with co-manufacturers, product designers, project management, operations, design, sales and ensuring best in class handovers to marketing. Your collaboration, strategic thinking, financial acumen and passion for consumers will be crucial in shaping the future. This is a global role and as such you will be working closely with our team based in the USA.

Your experience will ideally be within a consumer goods or FMCG environment. You’ll work closely with senior managers and report directly to the Head of Innovation, playing a pivotal role in bringing bold ideas to life.

In this role you’ll get to:

• Manage the development of new products from white space thinking, taking from ideation to launch, ensuring they are embedded in consumer insight and meet clear business and sales objectives.
• Create clear project briefs covering insight, design, pricing, packaging, value and volume metrics cost of goods and distribution strategies, with storytelling at the heart.
• Lead your projects through the stage and gate process ensuring clear communication and cross functional inputs and alignment, flagging risks, solves and recommendations, presenting at the monthly Innovation SLT meeting.
• Manage key stakeholders ensuring consistent communication with all internal and external stakeholders throughout the process, leading meetings and providing regular updates to the Head of Innovation on project timelines, progress, and any potential risks or challenges.
• Work cross-functionally and collaboratively with commercial and brand to share insights and data whilst actively listening to ensure market relevance and allow seamless handovers to execution.
• Budget and own P&L, creating and owning the P&L for your project at the stage gates ensuring projects are scalable and margin accretive.
• Oversee the project budget, ensuring resources are used efficiently and financial goals are met.
• Develop a deep understanding of consumers and healthy hair leveraging insights to create new products, staying up to date with competitor launches, industry innovations and emerging trends to inspire new product ideas and solutions.
• Conduct consumer and market research to inform your product development.

What we are looking for in you:

• With a proven track record at senior manager level, you’ll bring strong experience in leading end-to-end product development from concept through to launch, with a passion for white space and exploring what could be possible.
• You will be working directly on Innovation rather than NPD project management.
• You will be passionate about innovation and results driven, relentlessly tenacious, a can-do attitude to seek solutions with the end in mind.
• High accountability drive and deliver strong proposals with long term commercial viability.
• Excellent collaboration and influencing skills with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and influence stakeholders.
• Global experience is an advantage.
• Creative and strategic mindset with a keen eye for detail and an ability to identify trends and turn ideas into tangible, market-ready products.
• Financially astute having experience in sizing opportunities, working through P&L and presenting metrics.
• Exceptional organizational skills, with the ability to manage priorities and handle multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.

At Tangle Teezer, being part of our PAC means being Proud, Authentic, and Championing each other every day.

• Proud: We are passionately proud to do things differently, so we perform brilliantly-just like our hair tools.
• Authentic: We welcome everyone as they are, we bring our true selves to work and show up as who we want to be.
• Champion: We are champions of one another, our brand, and our environment.

Join us and embrace these values to help create, innovate, and deliver products that people love—together.

The good Stuff: For all your hard work and dedication, we have fantastic rewards for you.

• Flexible working hours with core hours from 10am to 4pm
• Working 2 days in the office and 3 days from home
• Pet friendly office. Bring your furry friend to work with you!
• Salary of £55K - £60K
• Performance-related bonus of 15% based on annual salary
• 27 days holiday, with the option to buy or sell holiday days
• 2 volunteering days per year
• 10 days working from any location of your choice
• Flexible bank holidays—choose the standard bank holidays or swap them for dates that are more meaningful to you
• Free in-office massages
• Enhanced family policies
• Supportive Period & Menopause Policies
• Enhanced pension scheme
• Life assurance at 4x your salary
• Private medical insurance
• Medical cash plan for everyday healthcare needs
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Meeting-free Fridays with an early 4:00 pm finish to kickstart your weekend!

If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in our hiring process, please let us know at any stage. BIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strongly commit to hiring people with different backgrounds and experiences to help us build better products, make better decisions, and better serve our customers.