Project Manager - NPD

Job Description:

Position:          Project Manager - NPD

Location:         Kheda - Ahmedabad

Experience:     8 - 10 Years   

Industries:      Cosmetics

Responsibilities:

• End to end project management, from product brief all the way through until first production run –for a range of the groups perfume and personal care brands.
• Hold ultimate responsibility in delivering products, from NPD brief, through till first production run.
• Develop a detailed project plan to monitor and track progress.
• Conceptualize brief to Product realization.
• Translating sales team requirements into formal NPD briefs.
• Develop new products and the cost re-engineering of existing products.
• Ensuring that our products are fully compliant to all the required specifications of major retailers/regions.
• Benchmarking against key competitors within major retailers.
• Responsible for coordinating with various external vendors, to ensure delivery of their part of projects on time.
• Maintaining project status sheets & doing whatever is needed to expedite various parts of the project.
• Hold internal departments responsible for adhering to timelines of the various gate stages of projects.
• Work to develop a rigorous system and process flow for the NPD process.
• Work with and develop processes for the design & artwork team, to integrate them better into the product development process.
• Carrying out competitor and market research.
• Helping to decide on USP’s, hero ingredients & marketing claims for products.
• Oversee product development and monitor market trends that may indicate the need for new products and services.
• Co-ordinating with external customers, to give updates on the technical aspects of the project.
• To work closely with the procurement team to identify new sources of supply of product needs and sources new raw materials and passes information on new ideas to NPD Department.
• Creation of samples for customers.
• Gather comments, suggestions and feedback that can become the ideas for new products.
• Maintains component, fragrance and competitive libraries.

Required Skills:

• Must have very strong project management skills
• Must have worked on developing PERFUMES.
• Exposure in project coordination and schedules for NPD.
• Exposure in Packaging development.
• Exposure in Component development
• Good Communication Skill in English (written & verbal)

Required Qualification: - Any Graduate

Salary :- Upto 20.00 LPA

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