Director - Research & Development - FMCG

- Build and Drives R&D strategy to ensure product formulations are developed for maximum compatibility across the global market and synergy opportunities being capitalized.

- Leverages deep understanding of upcoming technology in the R&D space and amongst competitors to enhance and develop new product formulations which will cater to next 2 to 3 year's trends specially in personal care market

- Formulates and directs overall R&D program and SOPs in accordance with organization's growth deliverables and key project objectives.

- Administers overall R&D deliverables with high technical competence and judgment and ensures sound technical expertise are applied while achieving them.

- Design and set up critical R&D projects that are completed within cost and schedule objectives.

- Prepares and correlates short and long term R&D plans and programs for design, construction or alteration of activities

- Ensures research and development of new technologies/products to support growth of business.

- Sets overall departmental vision, goals and priorities based on the financials/objectives of the business

- Direct and guide the team while defining specifications for new or reformulated products.

- Ensure all the control data relevant to all cosmetic product/ ranges/ SKU's are properly documented and stored in controlled manner.

- Ensuring regulatory compliance of all products that are developed for global markets that we export to (70 countries).

- Must have extensive experience in R&D of Personal Care & Colour Cosmetic product basket. Experience in R&D of perfumes/aerosol will be added advantage

- Experience of Personal Care OTC ( non-ingestible products) product will be added advantage

- Export Formulation Product experience specially for US/UK/European markets

- Must be able to work on formulation development and benchmark matching independently.

- Ready and able to work on multiple product formulations at the same time, with a view to develop potentially hundreds of new products per year.