Manager/Senior Manager - New Product Development - Home & Personal Care

Strong understanding in Sourcing/Negotiation & TOT

1. Displayed proficiency in handling end-to-end innovation life cycle of new products; expert in product innovations for hair care & cleansing, skin care & cleansing, male grooming, home hygiene care, soaps, and pain management categories

2. Adept in coordinating efficacy & sensory evaluation studies of Home/Personal care products and benchmarked against competitors; handling claims management and artwork screening; ensuring team quick turnover time for product development.

3. Supervised all aspects of scouting, assessing & validating new partners to support innovations & technologies; coordinating with marketing, supply chain, operation, and finance teams: managing stakeholders to ensure flawless project deliverables.

4. Played key role in monitoring product and process trends from lab scale to commercial scale, implemented appropriate tools to maintain quality, managing departmental. budget, CAPEX, MIS, pilot plant management; ideated innovative platforms for team. building, innovations brainstorming and quality improvements

5. Initiated INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS activity for the innovative products and processes; dealt with all aspects of identifying, screening, recruiting and grooming New talent to contribute flawlessly in delivering business goals; effective in project management, build learning and growing mind-set to fuel organizational sustainability.

6. Designed specifications for RM, finished goods, manufacturing hardware, process flow, cleaning and sanitization; directly contributed in product improvisation and in the growth Ayurvedic, Herbal, Skin Cleansing,

7. Spearheaded Research and Development team, from new product proposal to commercialization; accountable for consistency, quality, and process standardization across all phases of research and development.

8. Handled efficacy and sensory evaluation studies of Home & Personal care products; led formulation prototyping, product development, evaluation, claim substantiation of shampoo, hand wash, antiseptic liquid, mosquito repellent, air freshener-Aerosol/Non- Aerosol, Room freshener block/Gel, Car freshener, and all hard surface cleaner products.

9. Designed specifications for raw materials & finished goods by seeing global & regional scope; scout, assess & validate 3P's for rolling new innovations & technologies; technology mapping through competition tracking, patents, product quality control and assurance.