Butternut Box - Product Development Manager: Additional Products

London, UK - Hybrid3w ago

In Office Senior EMEA Consumer Goods Manufacturing Product Manager Development Manager Documentation Talent Acquisition Reporting Mentoring

Requirements

• 8+ years’ experience in technical product development, innovation or R&D, ideally in food, FMCG, pet or another regulated consumer category, or equivalent depth of experience. • technical product development, innovation or R&D • Hands-on technical depth: a proven track record of taking physical products from concept through formulation, specification, testing, manufacturing trials and launch. • Strong experience working with third-party manufacturers and suppliers to develop formulations, troubleshoot technical issues and bring products into production. • Experience across food and non-food products is a plus, as is exposure to the pet category. • A technical product owner. You understand what makes a product safe, stable, technically viable and fit for purpose. You’re comfortable getting into the details, challenging decisions and making evidence-based calls. • A technical product owner. • A product thinker. You can translate customer and brand needs into products with a clear reason to exist, balancing proposition, quality, technical feasibility and customer value. • A product thinker. • Evidence-led. You’re confident defining and interpreting sensory, palatability, stability, shelf-life, analytical and nutritional testing, and changing course when the evidence demands it. • Evidence-led. • Technically rigorous. You have high standards for formulations, specifications, claims, documentation and manufacturing, and won’t sign off something you don’t believe is right. • Technically rigorous. • Commercially minded. You understand the trade-offs between cost, quality, technical performance and customer value, and make pragmatic decisions without compromising product integrity. • Commercially minded. • A driver of excellence. You’re ambitious, results-driven and always looking for ways to improve products and processes. • A driver of excellence. • A natural plate-spinner. You’re organised and energetic, able to manage multiple workstreams, partners and deadlines without losing attention to detail. • A natural plate-spinner. • A collaborative influencer. You can translate technical complexity into clear decisions and influence effectively across teams and seniority levels. • A collaborative influencer. • A people developer. You enjoy helping others grow, with experience managing or mentoring at least one person. • A people developer. • An agile decision-maker. You’re comfortable making sound decisions with imperfect information and quickly closing knowledge gaps. • An agile decision-maker. • True conviction. You care deeply about the category and believe in what we’re building and the difference it can make to pets and their owners. • True conviction. • ⏳ The interview process: • Initial call with your dedicated Talent Acquisition Partner, carried out remotely. • Skills interview, for 90 minutes, in person. This stage will include an in interview task. • Behaviours interview, for 60 minutes carried out remotely.. • Leadership interview, for 45 minutes in person. • We usually expect our interview process to take 3-5 weeks, end to end.

Responsibilities

• This role sits within the Product Development team, reporting to the Product Development Director. You’ll own our Additional Products category end-to-end, spotting opportunities, shaping concepts, delivering launches, and deciding what stays, grows, or goes. You’ll also own product lines across wellness, gifting, food and non-food, combining the customer rigour of an innovator with the execution focus of an NPD lead, always raising the bar on how and what we deliver while staying true to the customer and ensuring every product has a clear reason to exist. • ⏳ The nitty-gritty: This role is UK-based in either London or our kitchen in Doncaster. It’s a 15-month maternity cover, with genuine potential to stay with us beyond the placement if you’re successful in the role and interested in moving into another role at a relevant level within the team or wider squad. • ⏳ The nitty-gritty: • 15-month maternity cover

Benefits

• 25 days holiday (plus 8 bank holidays) and an additional day for every year of service up to 5 years • 5 additional, paid 'paws' days off per year dedicated to your learning, development or personal wellbeing. Hit pause when you need it most • £500 personal learning & development budget to sharpen your skills • A significant discount on our Fresh food, to keep your own dogs as healthy as our customers • Enhanced parental leave • Flexible core working hours • Cycle to work scheme • Pension with NEST • Private Medical Insurance with Vitality • Private Dental Insurance with Bupa • Paid time off for fertility treatments and pregnancy loss • Discounted gym access through MyGymDiscounts • Lots of office dogs (Ajax, Peggy, Chief, Louis, Hansen, Winnie and many more….) • 💡 Important things to note: • We recommend getting your application in as soon as possible. We reserve the right to close the role early. • Our team thrives on collaboration. We spend 3 days a week in our West London office (Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday) and 2 days working from wherever you’re most productive. Because being together is a big part of our culture, we’re looking for someone within a comfortable commutable distance to London. • 3 days a week in our West London office • We’re a small (but mighty!) recruitment team. We aim to respond to everyone personally, but if we’re flooded with brilliant applications, we may need to close the role early. We appreciate your patience while we review applications. • For this specific role, we’re unable to offer visa sponsorship, so you’ll need the right to work in the UK. • ❗️We believe in a seat at the table for everyone. • seat at the table for everyone.