Technical Manager

CK Group are recruiting for a Technical Manager, to join a leading Personal Care product manufacturing company, based in North-East Worcestershire, on a full time, permanent basis. This role offers flexible working, with a mixture of in office and work from home.

Our client is a global manufacturer of personal care and hygiene products. The main purpose of this Technical Manager role is to support the Global Product Development team in ensuring timely development and commercialisation of products.

The company offers a competitive salary, 22 days holiday + bank holidays as well as a company pension scheme and other benefits.

Location:

This role is located in Worcestershire and is easily commutable from Birmingham, Worcester and Coventry. Some international travel may be required.

The Role:

• Develop novel wipes formulation, across personal care and household areas.
• Work closely with the Project & Commercial teams to ensure full support on all customer projects from concept through commercialisation including ongoing business support for specific global customers.
• Generate new product ideas and concepts, conducting regular market reviews to identify gaps in the market.
• Monitor the environmental and regulatory landscape to ensure the  client are at the forefront of regulatory compliant, sustainable wet wipe products.
• Initiate, organize, manage, and conduct laboratory experiments and process trials to determine compatibility and performance of new substrates, formulations, fragrances, and packaging for global customers. 
• Manage all product testing, both internally and externally to assure safety, efficacy, and regulatory compliance of all customer’s products.
• Create and populate internal and external customer specific product specifications.
• Technically support other departments such as Operations and Sales to ensure product quality, manufacturing efficiency and cost optimisation in a timely manner.
• Identify and evaluate new preservative systems.
• Work closely and frequently with suppliers to identify trends, cost optimise and specify raw materials (substrate, formulation, packaging).  
• Work closely with the Quality Assurance team to resolve complaints and customer inquiries in a timely manner.
• Develop communication channels with key customers to enable the timely exchange of information relating to product updates and launches.

Your Background/Requirements:

• In-depth relevant experience in a project management, product development, engineering, or operations discipline.
• Excellent written and verbal skills with proven presentation skills to customers.
• Experience in managing personal care, household products or consumer products are a strong plus.
• Working knowledge of GLP/GMP, COSHH and safe lab practices.
• Must be self-motivated, have good attention to detail and be able to work with minimal supervision.
• Product development of wipes experience would be advantageous.
• Personal care formulation background.
• Regulations experience.
• Formulation skills.

Apply:

It is essential that applicants hold entitlement to work in the UK. Please quote job reference 124 036 in all correspondence.

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