NPD Project Manager

·      End to end project management, from product brief all the way through until first production run – for a range of the groups perfume and personal care brands.

·      Hold ultimate responsibility in delivering products, from NPD brief, through till first production run.

·      Develop a detailed project plan to monitor and track progress

·      Conceptualize brief to Product realization.

·      Translating sales team requirements into formal NPD briefs.

·      Develop new products and the cost re-engineering of existing products.

·      Ensuring that our products are fully compliant to all the required specifications of major retailers/regions.

·      Benchmarking against key competitors within major retailers.

·      Responsible for coordinating with various external vendors, to ensure delivery of their part of projects on time. Maintaining project status sheets & doing whatever is needed to expedite various parts of the project.

·      Hold internal departments responsible for adhering to timelines of the various gate stages of projects.

·      Work to develop a rigorous system and process flow for the NPD process.

·      Work with and develop processes for the design & artwork team, to integrate them better into the product development process.

·      Carrying out competitor and market research.

·      Helping to decide on USP’s, hero ingredients & marketing claims for products. Oversee product development and monitor market trends that may indicate the need for new products and services.

·      Co-ordinating with external customers, to give updates on the technical aspects of the project.

·      To work closely with the procurement team to identify new sources of supply of product needs and sources new raw materials and passes information on new ideas to NPD Department.

·      Creation of samples for customers.

·      Gather comments, suggestions and feedback that can become the ideas for new products.

·      Maintains component, fragrance and competitive libraries.