Senior Npd Manager

2 weeks ago


West Midlands Region, United Kingdom Lavandi Talent Full time

Lavandi Talent is currently working with a fantastic FMCG business who are looking for a highly skilled and experienced NPD Manager to join their highly creative NPD and Design team.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Working with the Head of Product to create briefs that hit key range review dates.
- Lead on the delivery from concept and ideation to supply.
- Working with suppliers, agencies, attending shows, using insight, and creating sell-in ideas.
- Innovatively lead and present ideas to the business to ensure stakeholder buy-in.
- Work and build solid relationships with internal cross-functional team (Marketing, Category, Technical and Quality, Design, Supply) to ensure projects are delivered efficiently and comminuate product changes in a timely manner.
- Full Critical Path management to ensure the organisation and delivery of the existing and innovative products in a time scale and within budget.
- Work with internal and external parties, to ensure product, packaging and fragrances are delivered.
- Create and keep up to date and review with documentation.
- Ensure that projects are correctly setup and maintained in Netsuite.
- Previous experience in a Product Development environment within Beauty, Personal Care, FMCG or aligned sector
- Passionate about product with a strong creative and innovative flair, with commercial acumen and detail orientated when it comes to being able to own, interpret and manage a critical path to time, risk and budget.
- Eye for detail, understanding consumer relevant qualities and how to deliver them.
- Highly organised, with the ability to multi-task within a timescale and work efficiently under pressure.
- Adaptable, flexible and a team player.
- Strong negotiation skills, with the ability to work with a variety of internal and external stakeholders
- Strong skills working with Microsoft programmes such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint

This is an amazing and very exciting opportunity to join a fantastic team.

If you are interested don't delay in sending your CV

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Key Words: Senior NPD Manager, NPD Manager, NPD, Beauty, Personal Care, FMCG.


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