**THIS IS AN IN-OFFICE ROLE – NO HYBRID OR REMOTE OPTIONS AVAILABLE
Product Development Manager
Our client is a rapidly expanding sales and marketing company in the United States, specializing in beauty, baby care, and personal care products. They are dedicated to manufacturing top-quality personal care products that contribute to a better quality of life.
The Product Development role plays a crucial part in ensuring timely and successful product launches that fuel growth for consumer-packaged goods brands in skincare, baby care, cosmetics, and/or baby care categories. Responsibilities include maintaining project timelines, proactively addressing potential delays, managing product specifications, and fostering cross-functional collaboration with Operational and Supply Chain initiatives.
As a member of the product development team, you will be responsible for creating innovative products that captivate the market and drive growth for consumer-packaged goods brands in skincare, body care, cosmetics, and/or baby categories. This role encompasses the entire product development process from strategy formulation to execution of new product innovations, reformulations when necessary, and the creation of retailer sell sheets and presentations, among other tasks.
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS
· Minimum of 4 years’ experience in a product or merchandising-related role.
· Experience with leadership and managing direct reports.
· Excellent planning, organization, and follow-up skills.
· Strong attention to detail
· Good understanding of new product launch process and development steps.
· Logical thinker, sound analytical approach to solving problems.
· Ability to develop solutions in ambiguous situations.
· Adaptable to change in timelines and business needs.
· Highly collaborative with excellent communication skills across departments. Excellent project management skills and follow-up communication.
· Clear written and verbal communication across levels and departments.
· Ability to connect the dots and anticipate issues to avoid setbacks.
· Advanced working knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint.
· CPG experience is a must, beauty category experience preferred.
RESPONSIBILITIES AND ESSENTIAL DUTIES
· Collaborates closely with the product development team to lead the development of unique and relevant product recommendations, securing the buy – in from executive leadership.
· Manage product costs and budgets throughout project deadlines.
· Analyzes market competition, category trends, and sales data to identify growth opportunities and enhance profitability.
· Create, coordinate, manage, and deliver well-defined timelines and deadlines for all new product launches, aligning with company initiatives and cost/margin objectives.
· Collaborate with R&D partners and packaging supplies to develop effective formulas and creative packaging. Prepare and distribute product development briefs and spec sheets for manufacturers and relevant business partners.
· Ensures deliverables comply with regulations, meet project timelines, and align with brand expectations by utilizing appropriate resources or agencies.
· Partner with brand managers and sales to produce and distribute marketing/promotional materials, presentations, product samples and sell sheets to drive distribution and sales at key retail accounts.
· Identifies resource requirements and assigns responsibilities to individuals for all projects.
· Provides clear direction on sequencing of events, ensuring clarity of team activities and accountability among project members to help support successful and timely project deliveries.
· Proactively anticipate issues, develop contingencies, and minimize risks to meet project timelines.
· Lead project team in troubleshooting and resolving issues, identifying opportunities for timeline refinement, and escalating issues as necessary.
· Effectively communicate relevant project information to the team and senior leaders to keep projects on track.
· Conduct regular status meetings with internal and cross-functional team members.
· Apply company methodology, enforce project standards, and lead the Product team consisting of 4 people, including a Project Manager.
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