Opella · 2 months ago
Senior Director of Innovation and Product Development
Chattanooga, TN
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$152K/yr - $253K/yr
10+ years expOpella is a self-care challenger with a significant presence in the Over-The-Counter and Vitamins, Minerals & Supplements market. The Senior Director of Innovation and Product Development will lead the innovation pipeline, ensuring the development of consumer-centric products while managing a team and collaborating with various stakeholders to achieve quality and safety standards.
Health CarePersonal HealthRetail
Responsibilities
Ensures delivery of key New Product Development Innovation and Business Protection Projects. Anticipates potential technical issues, ensure robust development and scale-up plans, guide teams through trouble shooting when issues occur, and ensures transparency of communication with key stakeholders
Develops the vision for the Development Center, and the roadmap to get there. Identifies critical capabilities needed to deliver a superior innovation pipeline and implements them. This might include development and curation of knowledge into Best Practices and Intellectual Property generation, selection and implementation of new equipment/technologies and/or building new systems, procedures and infrastructures
Partners with the Quality and HSE organizations to deliver the right levels of quality for all development programs and safety for all employees. Monitors KPIs, ensures that action plans are in place and that the development center culture reaches the desired quality and HSE maturity
Develops a network of Academic partners, suppliers, vendors, CDMOs, which can be inspire and support the innovation capabilities of the development center and spark new innovation
The Development Center head is a high-profile role, who will be presenting our Innovation Strategy and Science program to senior stakeholders (internal and external). He/She needs to have the right posture to be the face of R&D
Qualification
Required
Bachelors Degree Required
Minimum 10 years' experience in Consumer HealthCare or Fast-Moving Consumers Goods
English is mandatory
Preferred
Master or PhD degree in Science (Pharmacy, Chemistry, etc…) preferred
Experience in Topical product solutions is desirable
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
Benefits
Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs.
Additional benefits information can be found through the LINK.
Company
Opella
Opella is a consumer healthcare business segment of Sanofi.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknown2024-10-20Acquired
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