Job Summary:
As a New Product Development Manager you will create, track and enforce the development timelines for New Products. You will oversee all aspects of product development including: brief process, formula development, pack/creative development, BOM creation, and handoffs to production for execution. You will be the point of contact for all development inquiries and changes relating to your programs. You are a dynamic leader who thrives in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment. You possess a collaborative working style and an innate ability to effectively build strong relationships and partner with cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and enforce New Item timelines that meet sales, marketing, R&D, packaging, and supply chain goals
- Lead weekly meetings to review all new product and new merchandising milestones with stake holders
- Update cross-functional areas on progress of launches and key KPIs
- Partner with Sales/Marketing/Packaging/Design/Operations for development of Merchandising
- Communicate NPD execution strategies internally
- Work with BOM Analyst and Packaging to create and maintain BOM in system of record
- Align on Gate escalation issues cross-functionally
- Report program progress and escalate road-blocks to management and key stakeholders as needed.
- Capture and share lessons learned from projects to enhance future program performance.
Requirements
- 5+ years of New Product Development experience, Project Management
- Strong organizational skills, including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills
- Excel, Planning Programming & SAP expertise
- Smartsheet knowledge is a plus
- Program Management, including the ability to determine appropriate program measures to assist themselves and other teammates and defining roles and responsibilities within the team.
- Time Management, including balancing multiple program objectives and needs simultaneously and considering resource management.
- Leadership, including motivating cross-functional team towards common goals and holding team members accountable for on-time and accurate deliverables.
- Ability to delegate
- Team Player
- Conflict management skills
- Communication skills
- Analytical / six sigma / TPM Skills: capable of solving problems as well as analyzing data to make good decisions
- Business process understanding: FMCG new product development cycles and secondary packaging materials and market knowledge
- Ability to work in office 2 days week (Tuesday & Wednesday)
Company Summary:
eos Products is an iconic global beauty brand that has sold nearly a billion lip balms worldwide. Our company was founded on an innovative and entrepreneurial spirit that revolutionized how people experience daily beauty routines. As a brand of choice among gen z and millennial consumers, eos aims to drive everyday experiences forward, creating the joy that beautifully designed, expertly crafted products can bring to people’s lives. From our iconic lip balm to our cult-favorite body lotion, eos products create delight where there was once utility, happiness where there was only function.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
eos Products offers equal employment opportunity to qualified individuals without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, age, gender, disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Minorities, women, veterans, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
FLSA Status:
FLSA exempt.
