Product Technologist

Boots UK; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Boots Retirement Savings Plan

Discretionary annual bonus

Generous employee discounts

Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption‑

Flexible benefits scheme (holiday, gym

Job summary

Boots UK is seeking a technical lead for new and existing product development in Health & Wellness. You will oversee technical specifications, verification, compliance, and launch readiness while coordinating internal teams and external partners to deliver safe, compliant products.

You will drive governance, risk management, and performance against schedule, cost and quality, shaping a robust 3-year development pipeline and translating business opportunities into market-ready products.

Qualifications

• Degree in science or related field with an interest in consumer health & wellness.
• Experience leading technical product development projects and cross-functional teams.
• Proven ability to engage internal/external stakeholders and deliver products on time and to spec.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for technical product development ensuring safety, legality, quality and ethics.
• Critique potential product offerings to align with 3-year NPD plans.
• Lead cross-functional project teams to deliver on time, cost and quality KPIs.

Skills

Technical product development

Project management

Stakeholder management

Commercial mindset

Consumer health & wellness knowledge

Education

Science degree

Project management qualification (APM or Prince2)

Job description

You'll lead the technical development and delivery of innovative new products that make a real difference to our customers' lives. You'll collaborate with passionate experts across the business and trusted external partners to bring ideas to life-overseeing everything from product concept and technical specifications to product verification, compliance, and launch readiness. With the customer at the heart of every decision, you'll help define what great is in Boots Own Brand Health & Wellness, ensuring each new product is safe, effective delight our customers. You will work within the Boots Technical Service Team as the technical lead on new and existing product development projects, driving the timely resolution of technical challenges and ultimately ensuring the products are safe, legal and meet / exceed the expectations of our customers and patients. You will be the project lead, coordinating the cross-functional project team to deliver product developments to the agreed timeline, cost and quality. You must be able engage a variety of technical & commercial stakeholders in project delivery, ensuring they understand key opportunities and risks and are able support/ challenge the business opportunity. You will support the development of a robust 3-year pipeline to deliver the continued growth of their categories. To achieve this, you must maintain a high level of governance, technical competence, and awareness of the industry across key health and wellness product classifications (General Products, Food / Dietary Supplements, Licensed Medicines, Medical Devices & Cosmetics) and understand broader global implications.

• Accountable for the technical product development activities including ensuring our products are safe, legally compliant and meet our quality, sustainability and ethical standards
• Technically critiquing potential product offerings to help build and meet our 3 year NPD plans
• Managing the planning and delivery of projects within the portfolio to meet business KPIs (time, cost, quality) through the application of project management best practice including planning, governance, issue and risk management, change control, stakeholder management, utilization of systems, escalation and accurate up to date provision of project data and reporting
• Responsible for engagement of all appropriate internal teams (e.g. technical, commercial, product, supply) and experts (e.g. regulatory for product registration) to ensure successful product delivery/market launch
• Coordinating and compiling the technical product data required for technical product approval and release.
  Interest in product development or experience in developing products from brief to market, ideally within FMCG environment.
• Excellent skills in relationship development & management both internally and externally with a focus on delivery
• Previous experience in project management
• Good technical understanding of consumer health & wellness categories
• Commercial mindset and proven track record of identifying the right opportunity, gaining business buy-in and converting this into commercial success

It would be great if you also have

• Science degree
• Project management qualification e.g., APM or Prince2
• 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.
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