Senior Product Development Manager

This job is brought to you by Jobs/Redefined, the UK's leading over-50s age inclusive jobs board. Do you want to be part of one of the UK's fastest growing FMCG brands? Are you looking for a big challenge with huge potential for growth? Biotiful Gut Health is the category leading Kefir producer, and we have big ambitions. We are a fast growing, pioneering and ethical business who take pride in sharing our delicious and super healthy range of gut-friendly products with the increasingly health‑conscious UK consumer.

To help us on this journey, we are looking for a first‑class Senior Product Development Manager who is passionate and ambitious, a self‑starter with a love of all things food and health. The ideal candidate will have a brilliant understanding of New Product Development and optimisation of existing product portfolio, concept to launch Stage Gate process, trends, and innovation. A confident structured communicator with best‑in‑class stakeholder engagement and cross‑functional working. This is not for the faint hearted - the pace is fast; the standards are high, and no day is the same. But if you are up for the challenge this could be the role that step changes your career.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in the commercial development of prototypes and products in support of our Innovation Pipeline.
• Contribute to the development of the Innovation Strategy which is led by Brand Marketing.
• Represent the Biotiful Product Team at external customer meetings and trade events.
• Build and maintain close relationships with all stakeholders, including co‑packing partners and key external customers.
• Provide support across the Product Team in dealing with information requests, complaints, and data compliance management.
• Work closely supporting the Head of Product, Senior Technical and Senior Project planner to drive strategic growth pillars.

The Ideal Candidate Has:

• Strong experience (minimum 10+ years) leading concept to launch New Product Development.
• A successful track record of chilled dairy product development delivery in drinks, yogurts, cheese, snack/protein bars, and/or complete meals.
• Is fully conversant with dairy ingredient and processing technology.
• Is fully conversant with packaging substrates, formats, and methods of manufacture.
• Is fully conversant with Project Management tools such as Stage & Gate.
• Has a basic awareness of fermentation and starter culture design.
• Self‑starter and autonomous with excellent prioritisation, and organisational skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication and engagement skills.
• Confident leading meetings with senior management, manufacturers, and external customers.

Biotiful Values – What you will need to succeed:

• Thrives under pressure in fast paced environments.
• Self‑starter, high energy, gutsy.
• Delivers results: Can translate vision and strategy into viable, and instigates, action that achieves results.
• Displays drive and purpose: Demonstrates focus, energy, and persistence to achieve objectives despite obstacles.
• Sets the pace: Senses and exploits growth and improvement opportunities and exhibits a sense of urgency and personal ownership.
• Makes smart decisions: Uses intuition, rational thinking, and sound judgement in analysing and resolving issues.
• Create team synergy: Works collaboratively across boundaries to achieve common goals.
• Winning relationships: Strengthens networks and partnerships and translates insight into business success.

Team Structure and Location:

• Fixed Term Contract: Initially 12 months (with possibility to extend to 18 months).
• Reports to: Head of Product
• Office Days: the Product team is in the Hammersmith office 3 days per week.
• Travel: regular travel to copackers/customers in the UK/EU.

We can offer a hybrid working model, competitive package and great working environment so if you're interested, please apply via the link.