NPD Commercialization Manager
5 days ago
Manage NPD innovation and renovation projects from conception to in-market launch, ensuring timely and successful delivery of approved projects within the NPD process guidelines.
The ideal candidate will have a strong background in project management, business planning, and brand management, with experience in the FMCG industry. They will be responsible for coordinating and ensuring the smooth running of the NPD process, driving innovation and renovation projects on time, in full, and on budget.
- Coordinate and manage NPD innovation and renovation projects from conception to in-market launch, ensuring timely and successful delivery of approved projects within the NPD process guidelines.
- Use strong project management and stage-gate principles to deliver innovation and renovation projects on time, in full, and on budget.
- Plan, organize, run, and manage NPD Gate meetings, capturing current status and required actions, sharing meeting minutes, and following up with stakeholders on agreed actions.
- Support delivery of accelerated volume, revenue, profit, share, and weekly consumption growth over annual business plan.
- Understand the external environment, consumers, category, and economic trends, and identify future business levers, new sources of opportunity, and balance facts with intuition to distil complex opportunities.
- Conduct regular business reviews using various data sources, make sense of trends, and proffer solutions for business growth.
- Work closely with the brand team to identify opportunity spaces to innovate into, and with the knowledge and insights team to evaluate feasibility of new concepts, products, packaging, or brand extensions.
- Support renovation projects as mandated by the business to deliver improved profitability on current portfolio.
- Provide support on or manage key strategic business initiatives or ad-hoc projects as they arise or as assigned.
- Ensure compliance with brand guidelines and local regulatory requirements on all project parameters.
- Work closely with other departments – R&D, Regulatory, Procurement, Finance, Business Planning, Quality Assurance, Logistics, Supply Chain, Sales – to drive excellence in commercial execution of NPD projects.
- Ensure continuous improvement by capturing multi-faceted learnings from projects, and document learnings for future business actions – success factors, limitations to success, optimizing processes, improving efficiency/effectiveness, reducing go-to-market lead times.
- Pursue innovation and change with a mindset of continuous improvement.
Key qualifications and skills include:
- Bachelor of Science (BSc) Hons Degree in Business Management, Marketing, or other relevant Science or Social Science course from a reputable higher institution.
- 5-7 years working experience in a brand management, project management, or business planning role in an FMCG company.
- Good verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate clearly and without ambiguity.
- Problem-solving skills, with the ability to develop innovative solutions to address business, brand, or company issues.
- Business knowledge, with the ability to understand key elements of the company's value chain and make decisions that positively impact the company's bottom line.
- Self-motivated and confident, with the ability to take full accountability for own performance.
- Excellent project planning and management skills, with the ability to prioritize between strategic and tactical business objectives.
- High business acumen, with the ability to engage, work with, and manage multiple internal and external stakeholders.
- Ability to build effective and collaborative working relationships, work well in teams, and be a team player.
- Ability to work in a matrix environment with multiple stakeholders at different levels of seniority.
- Ability to develop initiatives and work independently but collaboratively in teams, with a supportive "can do" attitude.
- Experience preparing project documentation and process mappings, and running cross-functional project meetings with individuals of varying seniority levels.
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