Product Formuation Manager

Product Formulation Manager 
Open to locations across the UK 
Attractive 

The Company 

A global, market-leading ingredients and solutions business operating across food, beverage, and nutrition. Part of a larger international group, the organisation offers long-term career development, strong investment in innovation, and the opportunity to work with high-profile customers across multiple categories. 

The Role 

This is a senior technical leadership role responsible for the design, scale-up, and commercialisation of nutritional premixes and sports nutrition products. You will lead the Product Formulation function, owning the end-to-end formulation process from customer brief through to launch, while ensuring regulatory, quality, safety, and commercial requirements are met. 

The role combines hands-on formulation expertise with people leadership, customer interaction, and continuous improvement. 

Key Accountabilities 

• Lead and develop the Product Formulation team, building capability and high performance 

• Own formulation strategy, resource planning, and departmental budget 

• Oversee development of nutritional premixes and sports nutrition products across powder, RTM and RTD formats 

• Ensure formulations are science-based, stable, compliant, cost-effective, and fit for purpose 

• Approve specifications and support pilot trials and shelf-life validation 

• Partner with commercial teams to scope customer briefs and deliver right-first-time formulations 

• Provide technical input to customer compliance, raw material approval, and dual-sourcing initiatives 

• Act as a subject matter expert supporting internal stakeholders across quality, production, and customer service 
• Drive improvements in systems, documentation, KPIs, and ways of working 

Person Profile 

You are an experienced formulation leader with a strong scientific background and a commercial mindset, confident working across technical, operational, and customer-facing environments. 

Essential experience and qualifications: 

• Degree (BSc/MSc) in Food Science, Nutrition, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Pharmacology, or Chemical/Process Engineering 

• 5+ years’ experience in food or nutrition manufacturing, with at least 3 years in people leadership 

• Hands-on experience formulating premixes (vitamins, minerals, amino acids, botanicals, probiotics) 

• Strong knowledge of sports nutrition categories (proteins, creatine, BCAA/EAA, electrolytes, pre-workouts) 

• Expertise in powder processing and formulation challenges (flowability, segregation, hygroscopicity, encapsulation) 

• Proven ability to design science-led formulations with good sensory understanding 
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills 

REF: PR/013211 

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