New Product Innovation

Job description

Key Result Areas:

1. Brand leadership through speed in NPI (New Product Introduction)

2. Brand leadership through launch of defect free product

3. Cost management

4. Operational efficiency

5. Capacity and competency building for Interio.

6. Organizational Imperatives

Job Description:

The incumbent is responsible for the following:

1. Brand leadership through speed in NPI (New Product Introduction). 

- Leading CFT (Cross Function Team) team comprising Design, Marketing, Service, Manufacturing, and Process Engineering functions for the development of B2C (Sofa, Dining, & Mattress) & B2B (Seating) products.

- Ensuring timely product launch.

- Responsible for Pre-pilot and Pilot development at locations as per CCPM (Critical Chain Project management) plan.

- Ensuring completion of product handover to MFG (Manufacturing)/ SST (Strategic Sourcing Team) team before launch.

2. Brand leadership through launch of defect-free product 

- Ensuring technical issue resolution at all stages of new product development.

- Ensuring process and capacity mapping for all NPI.

- Ensuring tooling and process development in coordination with the design team.

- Ensuring compliance to statutory requirements.

- Ensuring Internal Customer Satisfaction.

3. Cost management 

- Control product cost as per Marketing Plan for all products.

- Control investment within budget for new products in business.

- Ensuring PR (Purchase Requisition) to purchase team for procurement of all requisite material/component buys.

4. Operational efficiency 

- Implementing TOC (Theory of Constraints) in new product development.

- Ensuring vendor evaluation.

- Sub-contracting activities related to new product development for products as per requirement.

5. Capacity and competency building for Interio 

- Ensuring process and capacity mapping for all NPI.

6. Organizational Imperatives 

- Adhering to safety protocols, IMS (Integrated Management System), compliance, and organizational initiatives such as Kaizen, Business Excellence, etc.

- Ensuring Internal Customer Satisfaction (Implicit link to people development within internal teams).

- Ensuring compliance to statutory requirements.