Manager - Business Development

Job Description

Job Overview 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, R&D & Packaging, Regulatory & Quality Assurance, SCM, Sales & Marketing, Consumer Insight Key Stakeholders: External Third Party (3Ps) Vendors Reporting Structure Sr.Chief Manager, Business Development Experience Minimum 3- 4 years experienced in planning and execution of time bounded projects and workingunder deadlines Competencies Creating new product development pipeline for the business, designing formulating aligned R&DstrategyUnderstanding of quality and regulatory requirements in pharma/consumer productsUnderstanding of project management methodologies and hands on experience in leading 6 8projects simultaneously The Manager BD will be require to establish strategic level objectives & milestones for criticallaunches of NPD. Lead projects from initiation to completion through multidisciplinary teams andestablish team specific time & events schedules. Ensure expectations are met, by meeting agreedupon project plans, quality and completeness of deliverablesIdentify innovative product ideas and position the same to internal marketing teams Leadshortlisted products from idea conceptualization to launch through end to end projectmanagement Monitor report on project execution, project resource allocations implementation timesversus established plans Communicate effectively within project teams and within sitemanagement levelSchedule and facilitate regular and ad hoc team meetings invite core team members, defineconcise agendas, acting as a timekeeper, summarizing action items and maintaining records(minutesIdentify issues requiring escalation, work with functional heads to resolve project deliverables,timelines and resource issues and seek consensus but makes decisions, escalating to highermanagement as neededPlan and execute scale up batches and tech transfer activities in coordination with third party and R&D teams Collaborating to Innovate External partnership through analysis of market trends anddevelopment which can lead development of new conceptsOwn and manage the product development lifecycle by working closely with Quality, R&D &Packaging, Regulatory & Quality Assurance, SCM, Logistics, Sales & Marketing, Consumer InsightGenerating the scope & designing the network drafting the timeline/stakeholdersWork closely with third party sites and external development centers in generating new productideas, operational planning and executing tech transfersArbitrates decision making when project team cannot reach consensus, escalating major unresolved issues to higher managementAnticipate risks through effective involvement in project team discussions and build risk mitigationplans Navigate projects by highlighting risk probabilities and execute risk management plansManage 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 eachDriving portfolio and project planning to ensure the all the critical milestones are achieved withinproject launch time line Responsibilities Qualifications Graduate (Preferably Engineering) + MBA / PGDBM/M.tech (Tier 2 or Tier 3 Institutes preferred)