Start Date: Immediately

Location: Lower Parel, Mumbai

Years of experience: Minimum 2 years of experience in product at a beauty/personal care company - with a heavy focus on beauty

Overview:

We're looking for a junior product executive to join the product team at our d2c beauty business as we rapidly expand our product portfolio. If you are passionate about making a difference in the beauty space, have a fine eye for understanding consumer needs + insights, are extremely organized + good at sticking to tight timelines, we would love to hear from you

SOW

• Ideation & research of current beauty and personal care landscape to develop a cohesive product pipeline 12 months in advance of launch

• Analyse consumer insights to understand and address product pain points, and write subsequent speck sheets for NPD

• End to end procurement for product development, R&D, and Production, included but not limited to manufacturers/vendors in the following categories:

• Cosmetic Containers

Carton/Outer Unit Packaging

Structured Packaging

Merchandise Manufacturing

Raw Material Procurement

• Act as the liaison between the design team and the vendors, facilitating the creation of sample prototypes

• Collect and monitor the development and production schedules, ensuring individual and team calendar deadlines are met.

• Production planning & negotiation for new and existing product launches

• Assist with the preparation of seasonal milestone meetings with cross functional teams.

• Support in weekly meetings with merchandising/design teams and assist in communicating the required actions with the vendor.

• Work on quarterly trend reports + consumer surveys to help guide product development decisions

• Be heavily involved in color matching of products, with frequent visits to color cosmetic manufacturing facilities 

• Work with product development and management teams to take product briefs and create end to end go to market timelines, cost analysis reports, develop key stakeholder and vendor relationships in order to ensure on time product launches

• Stay up to date with metrology guidelines and ensure all packaging meets statutory requirements

Here's what an ideal candidate would look like:

• Bring a high level of creativity, attention to detail and efficiency while working under tight deadlines and on multiple projects simultaneously.

• Be enthusiastic about expanding your skill set and working on a broad range of projects.

• Stay knowledgeable about industry standards and trends.