Formulation Manager

Description:

RESPONSIBILITY

• Managing formulation team: Building a high performing, motivated team, ensuring continued professional and technical development of direct reports nourishing a culture of innovation, flexibility, inclusion, accountability and collaboration, and allocating resources across multiple brands to support the formulation development activities
• Managing the product development process: Ensuring on-time delivery of the product development commitments across brands through internal as well as external partnership, communicating progress with the project teams, bringing possibilities and solutions mindset, and collaborating with Quality, Production and Technical services teams to scale up new formulations
• Identifying external product development partners when needed, drafting new product development briefs and managing the relationship through-out project
• Partnering with Innovation Leads and Creative teams in building the innovation pipeline, co-create strong consumer centric product concepts, draft project scoping documents and conduct technical feasibility assessment of product solutions
• Ensuring new products stay true to the formulation and ingredient strategy for each brand
• Working with Innovation leads and Brand Experience (Marketing) to develop an innovation strategy aligned with LSB's growth and Sustainability strategy
• Managing pre-pipeline innovation activities within the formulation team. Ensuring a steady stream of new ingredients, product formats and opportunities to feed into the pipeline.
• Working with external raw material, product and technology suppliers to source new innovation
• Managing product testing, supply chain resiliency, cost optimization projects and claim substantiation
• Building product testing plans and ensure all claims have robust substantiation and consistent protocols are followed across brands
• Developing new methodologies to enable new or better claims
• Benchmarking competition and aiming for continuous improvement of product performance and quality
• Qualifying alternate raw materials/suppliers for formula ingredients to ensure supply chain resiliency
• Business team interface: Partnering across the business to build cross functional plans to deliver against our overall business goals, communicating to other functions with project updates, news for the team, results, developments, opportunities, and training new employees in the art and science of our ingredients and formulation choices
• Perform other related duties as assigned

QUALIFICATIONS

Required:

• A minimum of 10 years experience in product development
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Cosmetic Chemistry or related fields