Manager, Product Development - Care

Responsibilities:

• Help manage care side of the PD business, including skin care/ body care / fragrance projects.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders, including Beautycounter R&D lab and Project Management, and external stakeholders, including contract manufacturers, to drive progress, on time and on budget, throughout the development process.
• Collaborate with Safety, Sustainability, Quality, and Regulatory Affairs to ensure new formula development and reformulations meet Beautycounter’ s mission and commitments to performance and safety.
• Route formula submissions to Product Marketing team, gather feedback and redirect formulas with internal R&D lab or CM labs.
• Participate in weekly meetings with Product Marketing and R&D leads, to align on development and feedback throughout the development life cycle.
• Participate in weekly cross-functional huddles to move projects forward.
• Upon formula approval, collaborate with R&D, Sourcing, Quality, Regulatory and Packaging on tech transfer & scale up for projects.
• Manage Safety Testing of new and reformulation projects in collaboration with R&D, CM’s, QA, Safety and RA. 
• Support Sr. Director, Care in claims substantiation process with Legal and Regulatory to support proposed product claims, key ingredient stories, and feature & benefits summaries based on testing.
• Review Creative assets for claims substantiation, in collaboration with Legal and Regulatory.
• Manage PD on-site storage areas including development retains, bench standards of approved formulations, CM capabilities.
• Manage PD PIF’s ensuring all required approval forms and testing data are saved accurately and updated as needed.
• Manage fragrance library.
• Create/ update Master Product Fact Sheets in collaboration with Regulatory.
• Travel to contract manufacturers for formula evaluation, pilot/ scale-up and production batching, as needed.
• Attend industry events, trade shows and supplier meetings to stay abreast of current trends and technologies, as needed/ where applicable.

What you will bring to this role:

• Minimum 3-4 years of product development in skin care, and fragrance experience is strongly preferred.
• Experience with managing contract manufacturer relationships.
• Ability to multi-task effectively in a fast-paced environment
• Effective communication skills and collaboration with internal cross-functional teams
• Work independently while keeping senior management informed of obstacles.

Requirements/ Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required with an emphasis in Business or Science.
• Strong problem solving, analytical thinking skills.
• Detail oriented and strong organizational skills.
• Travel up to 20%, domestically.
• On-site 4 days of the week (1-day WFH)