Global Innovation Manager - Beauty Tech Incubator

The Boots Company PLC; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK beauty retailer is seeking a Global Innovation Manager for their Beauty Tech Incubator. The successful candidate will lead innovative beauty projects, utilize market insights, and drive initiatives that enhance the product portfolio. This role requires a deep passion for beauty, strong leadership capabilities, and the ability to convert ideas into commercially viable products. Join this team to make a significant impact in the beauty industry.

Benefits

Boots Retirement Savings Plan

Discretionary annual bonus

Generous employee discounts

Enhanced parental leave pay

Flexible benefits scheme

Access to counselling and support

Qualifications

• In-depth knowledge of beauty and skincare.
• Ability to translate ideas into successful propositions.
• Strong market and consumer insight skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead Beauty Tech incubator pipeline from ideation to delivery.
• Evaluate and report on the effectiveness of trials.
• Partner with tech specialists for rapid consumer-facing trials.

Skills

Knowledge of the beauty market

Creative thinking

Cross-functional leadership

Data-driven insights

Job description

Role: Global Innovation Manager – Beauty Tech Incubator

Contract: Permanent

Shift pattern: Full Time

Location: Nottingham

Recruitment Partner: Matthew Nelligan

About the role

The Global Beauty Tech Incubator Team (“No7 Beauty X” team) sits within the No7 Beauty Company's marketing function. Our mission is to empower every woman to achieve their beauty goals through ideation of omni-channel experiences that enhance our product portfolio.

We are looking for an agile and dynamic Global Innovation Manager adept at navigating the intersection of beauty and technology while keeping a firm grip on market trends and insights to support No7BC product development.

In this very exciting role, you will not only lead strategic Beauty Tech incubation programs, fuelling our Beauty Tech pipeline with your vast amount of ideas, enabling market test and learn programs, but also feed your market expertise into the 3YP brand product pipelines to ensure relevancy to our growth ambitions.

If you thrive at idea generation and creative thinking, excel at cross-functional leadership, and have a resilient solution-oriented mindset, this is the opportunity for you

Key responsibilities

• Fuel Beauty Tech incubator pipeline through ideation and validation of initiatives based on consumer desirability, market, technical feasibility and commercial viability

• Lead end-to-end incubator pipeline from ideation through to development and delivery using data-driven insights to evaluate and report to stakeholders on the effectiveness of trials for business scale up and growth

• Partner with external tech specialists to conceptualise, develop, and test consumer-facing trials rapidly across our brand portfolio.

What you'll need to have

We are looking for someone who has an in depth knowledge of the beauty market with a genuine passion for beauty and skincare with a relentless drive to discover new solutions to consumer challenges and unmet needs.

You will need to have the ability to translate innovative ideas into commercially successful propositions with a natural curiosity and self drive that enables you to explore ideas from discovery to conception and beyond.

Our benefits

• Boots Retirement Savings Plan

• Discretionary annual bonus

• Generous employee discounts

• 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.

We have a great range of benefits in addition to the above that offer flexibility to suit you - find out more at boots.jobs/rewards. Exclusions may apply, eligible roles only. Please note, any salary estimates given on third-party sites are not provided or endorsed by Boots and may not be accurate.

Why Boots

At Boots, we foster a working environment where consideration and inclusivity help everyone to be themselves and reach their full potential. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, passionate about embracing the diversity of our colleagues and providing a positive and inclusive working environment for all. As the heart of everything we do at Boots, with you, we change for the better.

What's next

Where a role is advertised as full-time, we are open to discussing part-time and job share options during the application process. 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.

This role requires the successful candidate to complete a Pre-employment check after receiving an offer. Depending on your location you will be asked to submit either a DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service), PVG (Protection of Vulnerable groups) or an Access NI Check.

Boots is a Ban the Box employer and will consider the suitability of applicants with criminal convictions on a case-by-case basis.