This role will manage all new launches, formulation changes, and design/packaging change from all South Asia Sourcing Units for Exports market.
Key Responsibilities
New Product Development
- Liaising with internal stakeholders across functions including Supply Chain, R&D, Sourcing Units, Marketing, Finance, Regulatory and Business development teams to launch all new products in agreed time frame.
- Own the Incremental Turnover Target for the cluster and identify opportunities for new launch and resilience from South Asia
- Holding & Leading Weekly Cross Functional meetings to track timelines on project and suggesting solutions if necessary to execute on time.
- Track timelines for multiple projects with respective stakeholders, raise flags and lead corrective actions if needed.
- Help all importing markets to secure necessary documentation and samples required for registration of all new products in their respective markets.
- Lead all new Mould development networks with procurement, R&D and Suppliers
- Understand capabilities & cost benchmarks across internal sourcing units along with Raw & Packaging material capabilities and supplier networks – lead format development work with BG/Marketing/R&D teams.
Change Management
- Develop resilience of all products across factories.
- Manage all change projects related to formulation, packaging or any change requested by customer.
- Keep Business team updated on all upcoming changes and the transition timelines.
- Communicating with cross functional teams about product changes, down-stocking and transition timelines.
- Ensure no service loss or capacity loss happens due to product transitions.
- Helping operational team on trouble shooting issue related to Master-data update, Artwork release, BOM update etc.
Savings
- Identify savings opportunities in current product portfolio.
- Manages network for product related savings programs with cross functional teams.
Key Requirements
- 5-7 years of related working experience.
- Previous experience in Project Management.
- Above par commercial acumen at this level.
- Master’s in management or Bachelors in Engineering with experience in project management.
- Proficient with MS Project.
- Strong cross-functional & Stakeholder management.
- Excellent logical reasoning Skills.
- Good Communication Skills.