Innovation Operations Manager

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $100k - $150k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

⚙️ Operations

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BiOptimizers

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2004

🏥 Healthcare

🍽️ Food & Beverage

🧘 Wellness

Healthcare • Food & Beverage • Wellness

BiOptimizers is a company dedicated to optimizing health and fitness through a variety of supplements. Founded by two trainers with a passion for helping others achieve their health goals, BiOptimizers offers products that enhance digestion, nutrient absorption, gut health, stress management, and overall well-being. Their product lineup includes enzymes, probiotics, magnesium supplements, and other health-enhancing formulations. With a commitment to quality, research, and effective natural ingredients, BiOptimizers aims to provide the best possible products for health enthusiasts, biohackers, athletes, and anyone looking to improve their health.

📋 Description

• Identify, research, and investigate new innovation ideas and concepts for technical and commercial feasibility • Collaborate with formulators and R&D teams to understand scientific foundations, technical requirements, and constraints • Design and execute feasibility analyses covering technical viability, manufacturability, cost, regulatory considerations, timelines, and commercial potential • Identify, vet, and manage external vendors, contract manufacturers, labs, consultants, and specialists • Prepare RFQs and manage the quote and award process with contract manufacturers • Synthesize findings into business cases and commercialization recommendations • Own project plans, timelines, budgets, milestones, and stakeholder communications across concurrent initiatives • Present findings, risks, and recommendations to leadership and cross-functional stakeholders • Own the innovation intake queue and maintain a ranked, capacity-bound queue of concepts • Establish and enforce phased stage-gate evaluation processes with budgets, kill criteria, and gate reviews • Build COGS, MOQ, landed-cost, pricing, margin, break-even, and capital-investment models • Conduct regulatory, IP, patent, freedom-to-operate, ingredient, labeling, and claims due diligence • Coordinate sampling, pilot and scale-up trials, stability and shelf-life testing, sensory evaluation, analytical method development, and draft specifications • Carry greenlit concepts through first successful commercial production and complete formal handoff to product and operations teams • Maintain documentation and a knowledge base for all evaluated concepts • Set realistic timelines, costs, and resource requirements while protecting core-team capacity

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum 7 years of demonstrated success as a project manager • Experience in the dietary supplement, nutraceutical, food & beverage, CPG, or pharmaceutical industries • Extensive experience with R&D/formulation processes, manufacturing technical capabilities, and regulatory frameworks such as FDA/DSHEA/cGMP • Strong background in ingredients and their technical use in dietary supplements • Hands-on experience with novel delivery formats such as liposomal or encapsulation technologies, softgels, gummies or jellies, sprays, sachets, or functional beverages • Superb organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously • Strong written and verbal communication skills • Strong analytical skills for feasibility assessments, data evaluation, and business cases • Fluency in project management systems/tools such as Asana, Monday.com, Smartsheet, MS Project, Jira, or similar • Comfort operating in ambiguity and driving clarity in early-stage, undefined projects • At least one novel or first-of-its-kind product, format, or process personally taken from early concept through commercial launch • Comfort delivering and defending unfavorable recommendations to senior stakeholders • Ability to independently build COGS build-ups, margin and break-even models, and simple business cases in Excel or Google Sheets • Ability to critically evaluate scientific literature, supplier technical packets, specifications, and certificates of analysis • Availability during US business hours; overlap with EST is required • US location required

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote position • Flexible work arrangements across time zones • Flexible working hours • Globally distributed team • Shared collaboration window from 9:00 AM–5:00 PM EST rather than a required work schedule

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