New Product Development Lead - Brazil

Location: Suzano, São Paulo, Brazil

You’ve built experience, now use it where bold ideas meet real impact. At Opella, we’re challenging how self-care works for millions of people and need leaders and experts ready to shape what’s next. As a New Product Development Lead - Brazil, you’ll bring your skill, your curiosity and your drive to make health simpler, smarter and more human.

About the Job

As a New Product Development Lead - Brazil, you will play a key role in accelerating Opella’s innovation agenda by bringing global and local pipeline projects to the Brazilian market. Working closely with manufacturing, R&D, regulatory teams, and CDMO partners, you will lead technology transfer, process scale-up, and commercialization activities for oral solid and liquid products. Combining technical expertise with hands-on execution, you will help transform innovation concepts into successful launches that deliver value to consumers and the business.

• Lead initiatives that advance our brands and strengthen our reputation worldwide.
• Mentor and uplift emerging talent while pushing your own growth and influence.
• Put purpose into practice — embedding sustainability, access and social impact into every decision.
• Model the challenger mindset: question complexity, act with integrity and make things radically simple.
• Help shape a culture that’s ambitious, collaborative and serious about recognition and belonging.

Main Responsibilities:

• Lead new product development and innovation projects for the Brazilian market, ensuring alignment with global and local business priorities.
• Drive end-to-end technology transfer activities from global development centers to the Suzano manufacturing site, ensuring successful scale-up and commercialization.
• Manage development programs with external partners and CDMOs, ensuring delivery against project timelines, quality standards, and technical requirements.
• Collaborate with Manufacturing, Regulatory, Quality, Safety, Clinical and R&D teams to ensure products meet operational, regulatory, and consumer expectations.
• Provide technical leadership during formulation development, pilot batches, validation activities, and commercial industrialization.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks while ensuring seamless execution of product development and transfer activities.
• Translate consumer and market insights into technical opportunities that support innovation, growth, and competitive advantage.

About You:

• Experience in technology transfer, new product development, process development, or industrialization within OTC, pharmaceutical, consumer healthcare, food supplement, or related industries.
• Proven experience supporting the development, scale-up, and successful launch of oral solid and liquid products.
• Strong understanding of Quality by Design, process validation, manufacturing processes, and product commercialization.
• Experience managing cross-functional stakeholders and external partners within complex project environments.
• Advanced degree in Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chemistry, Biology, or another Healthcare Science discipline.
• Master’s degree, pharmacist qualification, or previous consumer healthcare experience is considered an advantage.
• Fluent in English.

This is more than the next step in your career, it’s a chance to lead change and help reinvent self-care for the world. If you’re ready to challenge, inspire and deliver impact that matters, we’re ready for you.

We are challengers. We are Opella. Opella values diversity in all its forms and is committed to fostering a workplace where everyone can belong and excel. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.

About Us:

Opella is the self-care challenger with the purest and third-largest portfolio in the Over The Counter (OTC) & Vitamins, Minerals & Supplements (VMS) market globally. Our mission is to bring health in people’s hands by making self-care as simple as it should be. For half a billion consumers worldwide – and counting. At the core of this mission is our 100 loved brands, our 11,000-strong global team, our 13 best-in-class manufacturing sites and 4 specialized science and innovation development centers. Headquartered in France, Opella is the proud maker of many of the world’s most loved brands, including Allegra, Buscopan, Doliprane, Dulcolax, Enterogermina, Essentiale and Mucosolvan. As a globally certified B Corp company, we are active players in the journey towards healthier people and planet. Find out more about our mission at www.opella.com.

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