Product & Ideation Manager - No7 Beauty Company

Contract: Permanent

Closing date: Wednesday 25th March

Recruitment Partner: Shannon Linton

Welcome to No7 Cosmetics Foresight & Ideation – an exciting team at the heart of the No7 Beauty Company. As customers are changing, so are we! We are consumer obsessed and focus on truly understanding our customers' needs to develop world-class products that build brand love. We lead and inspire belief working with cross-functional partners in R&D, Insights, Packaging, Regulatory, Creative Fuel House, and Commercial we unlock high-quality launches born from category leading R&D.The Product & Ideation Manager is responsible for delivering the brand vision and big choices. They build a strong innovation masterplan with qualified concepts and big ideas that fuel brand growth.

This role provides the stimulus for product development, consumer testing, and brand-building activities ensuring the Generate and Create pillars are always supplied with the right input. The role balances foresight and creativity with commercial acumen, acting as both architect and guardian of the big idea from inception to launch.

What you'll be doing

• Creating buzzworthy, ownable product concepts with strong brand stories

• Staying ahead of cultural trends, social signals, and emerging product ideas

• Turning consumer insights into compelling, commercially viable product propositions

• Shaping strategic narratives that define “why now, why us”

• Collaborating cross-functionally to bring ideas from concept to execution

Key responsibilities

• Act as a lead driver for new product creation, ensuring innovation and distinctiveness

• Develop upstream strategic narratives and craft high-quality creative briefs (via WPP Open)

• Ensure all briefs inspire downstream teams and remain rooted in consumer truth

• Translate emotional consumer insights into functional, feasible, and ownable product truths

• Act as final approver at ideation stage, ensuring alignment with strategy and consumer needs

• Partner with Portfolio Delivery to manage cross-functional workflows and ensure OTIF delivery

• Identify, select, and manage key external partners (fragrance, formulation, packaging, design)

• Monitor project progress, escalating risks to stakeholders where needed

• Uphold high standards across creativity, innovation, and technical execution

What you'll need to have (our must-haves)

• Proven leadership in upstream innovation and category growth strategy;

• Demonstrated ability to set the “big choices” and establish innovation masterplans;

• Strong strategic foresight and consumer insight application that generates breakthrough ideas that drive Brand Growth;

• Ability to create inspiring briefs and emotionally compelling narratives that create a catalogue of stories;

• Commercially astute, able to screen and translate the latest product and commercial ideas into scalable opportunities;

• Collaborative leader with gravitas to influence senior stakeholders and external partners;

• Experienced in leading suppliers and partners to deliver breakthrough ideas in product and design.

It would be great if you also have

• A passion for colour cosmetics

• Previous experience on beauty category.

Rewards designed for you

• 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 option to buy additional holiday, discounted gym membership, life assurance, activity passes and much more.

• Access to free, 24/7 counselling and support through TELUS Health, our Employee Assistance Programme.

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A bit about us

At Boots, we're proud to be an equal opportunity employer, creating a place where everyone feels welcome, supported and free to be themselves. We believe that when our people feel valued and included, they thrive, so we're committed to creating a brilliant Boots for our people so they can make a difference for our customers and colleagues every time.

What's next

If you apply, our team will be in touch to let you know the outcome of your application or to arrange next steps. Where a role is advertised as full-time, we are open to discussing part-time and job share options during the application process. 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.

We hope to hear from you soon.

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