New Product Development - Supply Chain - Pharma/OTC/FMCG/Food/Beverages/Cosmetic

Experience in Supply Planning or Purchase Management is mandatory

Supply Chan New Product Development - Pharma/OTC/FMCG/Food/Beverages/Cosmetic Top Tier MBA

Key responsibilities :

- Lead the product development process

- Determine the resources (time, money, equipment, etc) required to complete the project

- Manage product development timelines

- Operate as a single point of contact between manufacturing, R&D, packaging, supply chain, marketing, regulatory, legal and all other teams involved in product development

- Ensure that the project deliverables are on time, within budget and at the required level of quality

- Ensure achievement of profitability targets for new products

- Lead weekly cross functional meetings

- Identify critical constraints for each project on a weekly basis and coordinate with relevant stakeholders to complete those activities

- Followup with relevant stakeholders during the week to achieve closures on activities planned for the week

- Prepare detailed trackers along with individual stakeholders

- Own trackers of individual projects along with marketing managers

- Prepare fortnightly / monthly updates for top management

- Ensure that all project information is appropriately documented and secured

Requirements :

- MBA from a Premier B school with 2 - 4 years of experience of developing new products in the consumer products sector

- Experience of working with wide ranging cross-functional teams

- Comfortable in working with people across the hierarchy

- Highly energetic, motivated,self starter

- Out of the box thinker with ability to think of smart and innovative solutions to existing problems

- Ability to work on tight timelines

- Ability to think through minute details while not loosing the big picture and plan accordingly

- Strong communication and organizational skills with meticulous attention to detail