Future Group - Lead - Packaging & Innovation

The theme of the Role

- Responsible for leading the strategy and plan development for brand innovations of new age FMCG brands, products.

- Building new capabilities, introduce new technologies and formats for stake holders within organization and ensure that partner vendors build corresponding capability.

- Think out of the box and introduce techniques which bring incremental benefit to brands & consumers both

Key Deliverables:

- Lead the development of major innovation for new age projects/new capabilities and will have the opportunity for idea generation and planning & developing strategy

- Work with brands, create insights and partner category teams to identify new propositions to add significant value to the business

- Development of new packaging forms for the improved delivery & cost reduction

- Being a role model for agile innovation by using insight and instinct and ensure that project innovations don- t just launch early in market but are launched first time right

- Working with project teams and brand entrepreneurs for developing architecture for the new age and existing projects in a category and ensure the right delivery of product on time

- Plan the missionaries for the new age brands and products in a category at FCL

- Work on cost modelling, vendors development for packaging procurement, moulds making/rationalization process and identifying /implement new future capability expansion for the upcoming projects

- Identification & selection of new packaging material and machinery / technologies for productivity & delivery improvement the existing operations / processes in terms of efficiency & quality and thus meeting the business requirements

- Analysing consumer insights data and using consumer understanding and interpreting research to unlock and build insight for packaging application

- Build capabilities with vendors who can provide help in accurate and high-quality on time decisions e.g simulations / prototypes etc

- Frequently cascade knowledge on new technology and global trends in packaging which can be applied for FCL specially frugal innovations