Programme Manager

Job Description

Global Innovation Manager

Role - Full time

Contract - Permanent

Hours - 37.5

Location - Nottingham or London

Company - No 7 Beauty Company

Closing Date - 17th December 2024

Contact - Matthew Nelligan - Matthew.nelligan@boots.co.uk

Global Innovation Manager – Beauty Tech Incubator

Who we are

The Global Beauty Tech Incubator Team sits within the No7 Beauty Company’s marketing function and is on a transformative journey to be at the forefront of pioneering tech-enabled innovations in the beauty category. We are on a mission to empower every woman to achieve their beauty goals through personalised, seamless, smooth and results driven omni-channel experiences, leveraging services, devices, diagnostics, AI and more!

About the role

We are looking for an agile, dynamic and innovative Global Innovation Manager who can navigate the intersection of beauty and technology and can relentlessly grow, test and learn initiatives that offer personalised and impactful experiences to consumers both online and in-store.

You will lead strategic Beauty Tech incubation programs, fuelling our Beauty Tech pipeline with your vast amount of ideas, to ensure market growth and difference by delivering consumer-centric, transformative, and sustainable experiences through continuous learning and agile development.

If you excel at idea generation and creative thinking, excel at cross-functional leadership, and have a resilient solution-oriented mindset, this is your opportunity to join a dynamic team and to revolutionise the beauty landscape.

Key Responsibilities:

• Fuel the incubator pipeline with market and technology input, iterating on multiple ideas at pace
• Validate projects based on consumer desirability, market, technical feasibility, and commercial viability for scale, in order to increase incremental revenue
• Lead the end-to-end incubator pipeline from brainstorming through to delivery
• Utilise data-driven insights to evaluate and report to partners on the effectiveness of trials for business scale up and growth
• Collaborate closely within a matrix organisation and have the ability to influence partners at different levels of seniority.
• Partner with external tech specialists to conceptualise consumer-facing trials rapidly across our brand portfolio.

What you’ll need to have

We are looking for someone with experience with beauty and skincare, and a desire to discover new solutions to consumer challenges and unmet needs, through the application of cutting-edge beauty technologies.

Curiosity & self-drive when faced with a consumer need that you can explore through discovery process innovative solutions.

You will have experience delivering consumer-centric innovations and operating in a lean, agile manner. You can demonstrate and apply creative thinking to identify unique opportunities, have the desire to challenge conventional mindsets, and have the ability to translate innovative ideas into commercially successful propositions.

If you're ready to affect the beauty industry through the delivery of fresh beauty technologies, we want to hear from you!

About No7 Beauty Company:

No7 Beauty Company is made up of five iconic brands - No7, Liz Earle, Soap & Glory, Botanics and Sleek MakeUP. We believe in creating the best in beauty for everyone - we’re innovators with experience with challenging perceptions with ground-breaking products, proven results and positive impact. We have built a reputation on scientific innovation, whilst being environmentally sustainable and socially responsible. We are an equal opportunity employer, empowering our team members to be their authentic selves as we share a culture where diversity, equity and inclusion are at the centre of everything we do.

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 holiday buying, discounted gym membership, life assurance, activity passes and 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.

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, it's with you, we change for the better.

What's next

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.

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

Successful candidates who are selected for interview will be contacted by our Talent Team with instructions on interview process and next steps.

Closing date

16-Dec-2024

Business Area

Support Office

Function

Digital

Specialism

Programme Management

Shift pattern

Full time - weekdays

Keywords

Social commerce, Social Platforms, Social Selling, Technology innovation, Beauty Innovation, VR, AI, Beauty trends

Hours per week

37.5