Manager - Business Development

Location

Mumbai | India

Job description

• The purpose of the role is to liaise with internal and external Stakeholders to ensure timely delivery of New Product Developments (NPDs)
• The roles responsibility include (but not limited to) scouting new product opportunities, develop and drive plans with reasonable negotiation, effective tracking and risk mitigation and achieve deadlines and milestones across stakeholders, teams and management, to ensure projects are completed successfully and as per timelines aligned

Key Stakeholders: Internal

Quality, RD Packaging, Regulatory Quality Assurance, SCM, Sales Marketing, Consumer Insight

Key Stakeholders: External

Third Party (3P s) Vendors

Reporting Structure

Chief Manager, Business Development

Experience

• Minimum 3-4 years experienced in planning and execution of time-bounded projects and working under deadlines
• Creating new product development pipeline for the business, designing formulating aligned RD strategy Understanding of quality and regulatory requirements in pharma/consumer products
• Understanding of project management methodologies and hands on experience in leading 6-8 projects simultaneously

Competencies

• The Manager BD will be require to establish strategic level objectives milestones for critical launches of NPD
• Lead projects from initiation to completion through multidisciplinary teams and establish team specific time events schedules
• Ensure expectations are met, by meeting agreed upon project plans, quality and completeness of deliverables
• Identify innovative product ideas and position the same to internal marketing teams
• Lead shortlisted products from idea conceptualization to launch through end-to-end project management
• Monitor report on project execution, project resource allocations implementation times versus established plans
• Communicate effectively within project teams and within site management level
• Schedule and facilitate regular and ad-hoc team meetings; invite core team members, define concise agendas, acting as a timekeeper, summarizing action items and maintaining records (minutes)
• Identify issues requiring escalation, work with functional heads to resolve project deliverables, timelines and resource issues and seek consensus but makes decisions, escalating to higher management as needed
• Plan and execute scale up batches and tech transfer activities in coordination with third party and RD teams
• Collaborating to Innovate - External partnership through analysis of market trends and development which can lead development of new concepts
• Own and manage the product development lifecycle by working closely with Quality, RD Packaging, Regulatory Quality Assurance, SCM, Logistics, Sales Marketing, Consumer Insight Generating the scope designing the network - drafting the timeline/stakeholders
• Work closely with third party sites and external development centers in generating new product ideas, operational planning and executing tech transfers
• Arbitrates decision-making when project team cannot reach consensus, escalating major un resolved issues to higher management
• Anticipate risks through effective involvement in project team discussions and build risk mitigation plans
• Navigate projects by highlighting risk probabilities and execute risk management plans
• Manage the on-scope, on-time and on-quality launch and flawless execution of Innovation Renovation projects of simple to medium complexity from start to end of delivery stage each
• Driving portfolio and project planning to ensure the all the critical milestones are achieved within project launch time line
• Graduate (Preferably Engineering) & MBA / PGDBM/ M.tech (Tier-2 or Tier-3 Institutes preferred)

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