Technical and Quality Manager – 6 month FTC
West London – Hybrid
We’re partnering with an established, international consumer products business to appoint an experienced technical professional who can play a pivotal role in improving quality management systems, regulatory compliance and manufacturing performance.
The business have a strong pipeline of innovation, but also a drive to improve quality management systems, regulatory processes, testing protocol and customer and supplier quality. This is a hands on role designed to support them with improving technical and quality capabilities for a 6 month period.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Technical compliance & regulation: Ensure products, formulations, packaging etc meet regulatory requirements across international markets, including upcoming compliance changes
- Product development & innovation: Drive NPD pipeline, ensuring bottle necks in systems and processes and with manufacturing partners are addressed and solved
- Quality management: Strengthen quality management systems, standard operating procedures and testing processes
- Quality management: Reviewing QMS processes, customer quality processes, supplier quality and looking for opportunities to make improvement
- Manufacturing & supplier management: Work with existing manufacturing partners to resolve technical and quality challenges, assess manufacturing capability and support the onboarding of alternative manufacturers where required.
- Reviewing current stock and product range against quality and regulatory requirements for global markets
You’ll bring:
- Strong technical knowledge of product compliance, regulatory requirements and quality management systems.
- Experience in consumer products such as cosmetics, skincare, household, bath products, fragrance etc.
- Experience navigating international regulatory requirements
- A track record of resolving complex technical issues and improving processes within product development or manufacturing environments.
- Experience working with contract manufacturers
- The confidence to influence stakeholders, challenge existing processes constructively and drive issues through to resolution.
- A pragmatic, hands-on approach and the ability to work independently on complex problems.
Just as importantly, you’ll be comfortable operating as a senior individual contributor, you’ll be happy to be heavily operational and drive a period of new product launch whilst improving technical processes.
The role requires min. 2 (ideally 3) days in the office in West London.
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