About this Role:
Own technical delivery of product development programmes for international markets, partnering with key stakeholders to ensure products meet specifications, internal standards, regulatory requirements, and commercial objectives. Provide category-wide technical leadership in electrical engineering, product safety, and compliance to enable safe and successful market launches.
What you will be doing:
Electrical Engineering & Risk Management
- Provide expert review of electrical designs, including circuitry, PCB layouts, power systems, and electromechanical components.
- Lead structured risk assessments (e.g. hazard analysis, misuse scenarios) to support safe, robust product development.
- Define additional safety protections aligned with consumer usage, foreseeable misuse, and real‑world operating conditions.
Product Safety, Regulatory & Compliance Leadership
- Lead compliance activities against applicable consumer product safety standards and regulatory frameworks across global markets.
- Define, manage, and oversee certification, verification, and regulatory approval strategies to ensure launch readiness.
- Act as the technical authority on product safety decisions, balancing compliance, risk, and commercial objectives.
Testing, Verification & Certification
- Determine appropriate testing strategies, levels of due diligence, and conformity routes based on product risk and market requirements.
- Support and review product validation, safety testing, EMC testing, and certification outcomes.
- Ensure test plans, reports, and technical files meet internal and external regulatory expectations.
Quality, Failure Analysis & Continuous Improvement
- Investigate product failures, returns, and customer complaints, leading root cause analysis and corrective/preventive actions.
- Use field performance data, customer insight, and competitor benchmarking to drive continuous improvement in product quality and safety.
- Embed learnings into future product development and supplier requirements.
Category & Commercial Support
- Provide clear, structured technical input into buying and development decisions through robust technical briefs.
- Conduct market and competitor benchmarking to support category quality, differentiation, and innovation strategies.
- Actively contributes to emerging technology adoption aligned with category and business innovation plans.
Cross-Functional & Supplier Collaboration
- Partner with internal teams (technical, quality, manufacturing, commercial) to ensure development readiness and reliable product launch.
- Work closely with suppliers to ensure technical, safety, and compliance requirements are fully understood and met prior to supply.
- Challenge and support suppliers to improve design quality, compliance maturity, and risk management capabilities.
What you'll need to have:
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, or a closely related discipline.
- Formal training or certification in Product Safety, Risk Assessment, or Regulatory Compliance is highly desirable.
- Chartered Engineer (CEng) or equivalent professional accreditation preferred.
- Significant experience in electrical engineering within consumer products, electronic beauty, or regulated product categories.
- Proven track record of leading product safety, regulatory compliance, and certification activities across multiple markets (e.g. CE/UKCA, IEC, EMC, CB Scheme, FCC, etc.).
- Hands-on experience conducting and reviewing risk assessments, hazard analyses, and safety justifications throughout the product lifecycle.
- Strong background in testing, verification, and validation, including safety and EMC testing strategies.
- Experience investigating product failures, returns, and customer complaints, with demonstrated capability in root cause analysis and corrective action implementation.
- Commercial experience supporting buying, sourcing, or category decisions, translating technical risk into clear, pragmatic recommendations.
- Proven ability to work cross-functionally with quality, manufacturing, procurement, and commercial teams.
- Experience engaging and managing suppliers, including technical reviews, compliance readiness, and capability assessment.
It would be great if you also have:
- Recognized technical expertise with the ability to influence decisions at senior level.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a structured approach to risk.
- Clear and confident communicator, able to distil complex technical information into actionable insights.
- Commercially minded, balancing safety, compliance, quality, cost, and time‑to‑market.
- Proactive, detail-oriented, and driven by continuous improvement.
Work location:
- Tai Kok Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Our benefits
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Flexible working hours and additional holidays
- Access to free, 24/7 counselling and support through our Employee Assistance Programme.
Why Boots
The Boots Group is a trusted leader in healthcare, pharmacy and retail, with a 176-year legacy of serving communities. As a pharmacy-led health and beauty retail business, The Boots Group plays a vital role in local healthcare ecosystems, delivering accessible healthcare and trusted wellness products to communities across the world.
At Boots, we foster a working environment where consideration and inclusivity help everyone to be themselves and reach their full potential. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, passionate about embracing the diversity of our colleagues and providing a positive and inclusive working environment for all. As the heart of everything we do at Boots, with you, we change for the better.
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