NPI Assistant New Products & Innovation (Third Party Payroll Position)

Job description

**Role & responsibilities** - Liaise with Marketing, R&D, Regulatory, Quality, Packaging Development, Procurement, Supply Services, Factory and External Manufacturers for effective and timely execution of projects. - To ensure that projects are executed as per the agreed timelines to generate projected NR / GM. - Deliver the cost saving project. - Tracking, facilitation and reporting of all cost saving projects. - Efficient handling of projects ensuring minimum cost/investment through meticulous planning of trials, material ordering and transitions - Replication of global excellence initiatives / learning in the country - Capacity planning whenever required from NPD / EPD POV - Material planning for new product launches - Ideate opportunities of improving Gross Margins across product categories **Preferred candidate profile** MS Projects, MS Powerpoint, MS Excel, SAP