Manager - New Product Development - Supply Chain Function - FMCG

Company: Reputed Multinational FMCG Industry

Title/ Designation - New Product Development Manager

Function - Supply chain

Grade - Grade 5 Manager

Location - Dubai, UAE

Reporting to - GM Supply chain

Responsible for entire New Product & Packaging development for International Business

Key Stakeholders:

- Internal: Marketing, Sales, Production, Quality & supply chain

- External: Different vendors

Essential Duties and Responsibilities :

- Monitoring and tracking of all the new product development projects ( both innovation and renovation of products and packaging )

- Responsible for conducting plant trials at various manufacturing locations for developing new products and coordinate with production and QC team for conducting plant trials effectively.

- Co-ordinates with Marketing function on regular basis for product and packaging development

- Responsible for providing packaging specifications for all the new products being developed. To provide keylines for laminates and arranging mock packs for approvals from marketing and customers

- Co-ordinates with the purchasing department for all new ingredients procurement for trails.

- Responsible for conducting travel tests and shelf-life studies for all new products.

- Responsible for providing cost-effective solutions for developing the alternate recipe and alternate packaging standards.

- Co-ordinates with all relevant persons for conducting sampling activities, blind tests for getting feedback on new product samples developed internally.

- Conducts regularly market study for analyzing various new products available in the market.

Desired Candidate :

- Minimum 4 years of experience in FMCG - Product development role

- Preferably In Biscuit