Senior Director of Innovation and Product Development

Opella • Chattanooga, TN

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About The Position

The Senior Director of Innovation and Product Development partners with R&D Brand Leads, Marketing Innovation Leads and Manufacturing & Supply to create a pipeline of innovation which is rooted in science and inspired by consumers. Brand Portfolio includes brands like Icy Hot, Cortizone 10, Aspercreme, Selsen Blue, Gold Bond… Leads product development end-to-end (ideation, prototyping, development and scale up) internally or via CDMO partners, translating Opella’s Science into the best product experiences that consumers love and trust. Leads a team of ~15 colleagues (Formulation Development, Analytical Development, Process Scale-up, Technical Performance & Modeling). Transforms the culture, developing a consumer-centric mindset, which is required to achieve Opella’s vision of becoming the best Fast Moving Consumer Health company in and for the world. Transforms the capabilities of the development center, building unique differentiating capabilities that can be leveraged to deliver superior solutions as part of the innovation projects. Brings in new technologies, raw materials, product forms, and generally new ideas by building an ecosystem of academic or industrial partners. Accountable for quality and safety at the Chattanooga Development Center, partnering and leveraging the tools from the Quality and HSE organizations.

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree Required
• Minimum 10 years’ experience in Consumer HealthCare or Fast-Moving Consumers Goods.
• Track record of bringing products to market in full and on time.
• Demonstrated experience in identifying consumer’s needs and turning those insights into action.
• Ability to implement change in large organization, and to build new capabilities
• Experience in leading and developing high performing teams.
• Agility to work in a Matrix environment.
• Autonomy to make daily decisions for a Development Center of ~ 15 colleagues.
• Risk Management ownership, proactive communication and management for formulation and scaleup risks.
• English is mandatory.

Nice To Haves

• Master or PhD degree in Science (Pharmacy, Chemistry, etc…) preferred
• Experience in Topical product solutions is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Delivery of the Innovation pipeline
• Develops the vision for the Development Center and the roadmap of Differentiated Capabilities
• Accountable for Quality and Safety
• Builds an Ecosystem of partners
• Represents R&D and Opella internally and externally

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees