Location
North West London, NW2 7HF

Hours
Core working hours are 9:30am to 5:00pm, 40 hours per week, worked over five days, Monday to Friday. Hybrid working: 3 days in office, 2 days working from home.

Salary
Competitive

About the Role
Vitabiotics is a pioneering leader in nutritional healthcare products with over 55 years of innovation, including leading British supplement brands such as Perfectil, Pregnacare, Wellman, Wellwoman, and Menopace. As the UK’s No.1 vitamin company exporting to over 100 countries, Vitabiotics is renowned for its groundbreaking clinical research and twice recipient of the Queen’s Award for Innovation.

We are seeking an experienced Technical Manager to join our quality control team. You will lead technical and product development activities across the business, including product transfers, new packaging development, formulation of new products, and contributing to new product development (NPD). Your role will ensure products are developed, transferred, and launched successfully while meeting quality, regulatory, cost, and customer requirements.

Key responsibilities include managing and developing a team, leading product transfer and scale-up activities, supporting new product development from concept to launch, developing and optimising formulations, leading packaging design and development, managing multiple technical projects, and ensuring compliance with quality and regulatory standards. You will foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement while driving robust, commercially viable solutions.

Experience
- Significant experience in product development, formulation, and technical project management.
- Proven experience leading product transfer and scale-up activities.
- Demonstrated people management experience.
- Experience managing packaging development projects.
- Strong understanding of quality and regulatory requirements.

About you
- Strong leadership and people management skills.
- Expertise in product development and formulation.
- Excellent project management and technical problem-solving abilities.
- Effective stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Knowledge of packaging technology.
- Skilled in risk assessment, decision making, and driving continuous improvement.
- Commercially aware with a proactive approach to delivering solutions.

Qualifications
- Degree in Chemistry, Food Science, Pharmaceutical Science, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, or a related technical discipline (essential).
- Postgraduate qualification in a relevant scientific discipline (desirable).
- Project management qualification such as PRINCE2, PMP, APMP or equivalent (desirable).
- Experience within manufacturing, FMCG, pharmaceutical, healthcare, chemical, or related industries (desirable).