UI Assistant Innovation Planning Manager

Job Purpose

This role will manage all new launches, formulation changes, and design/packaging change from all South Asia Sourcing Units for Exports market.

Key Responsibilities

• 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