Job Summary

Innovation Project Manager

Relocation Assistance Offered Within Country

Responsibilities

The Innovation Project Manager oversees projects from innovation design to delivery, coordinating the various internal and external contributors. He/She will be responsible for the completion of all assigned product innovation projects within required time frames and budget, meanwhile implement continuous improvement for the product innovation processes.

Key responsibilities

- Generate opportunity spaces by building a deep understanding of category consumer unmet needs and challenges.
- Monitor external marketplace (both inside and outside of category) for emerging trends, novel solutions and technologies.
- Collaborate with internal and external Innovation partners (Design, Insights,RD, brands and agencies) to identify, assess and validate new innovation spaces for Oral Care.
- Work with regional teams to develop go to market models for innovation and develop incubation business plans.
- Work closely with the China Devices team to drive learnings and synergies, and translate these into innovation opportunities and concept spaces for the India market.
- Manage ongoing innovation projects and resources.
- End to end E comm innovations crafting networks

What you can expect

- Be a part of living a culture of agility, growth and innovation
- Learn how a large business operates and grow in your overall business knowledge and acumen
- You will be exposed tolearnings on a global scale that will challenge and stretch your strategic and analytical capabilities
- Work with excellent colleagues. As people at Colgate will tell you its the people that make the difference.




- You will establish great personal networks and work across a multitude of cultures

What we ask.

- Passionately curious with strong need to find better ways to do things
- Proficiency at connectingdots: people needs, technologies business opportunities
- Experimental, resilient agile: good at design thinking: able to design, carry out, and interpret creative experiments while taking calculated risks
- Creative thinker problem solver
- Comfortable with ambiguity and working in a self-directed environment
- Demonstrated ability to influence others for maximum effectiveness
- Proven ability to collaborate, demonstrate project management skills and be able to interact effectively with various stakeholders, across cross-functional teams while building maintaining a positive work environment
- Genuinely interested in devices, technology and innovation opportunities in these spaces

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree and above, having background in Marketing/Business is a plus
- 5+ years of work experience as a project manager with a strong background in Supply Chain.
- Work experience in FMCG in similar roles is a plus
- Demonstrated creative problem solving skills in previous roles
- Strong project management skills and ability to manage multiple innovation projects
- Demonstrated experience of driving new thinking or changing thinking of a team or organization
- Demonstrated ability to influence multiple senior stakeholders in previous roles

Experience Level

Mid Level

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📌 Innovation Project Manager (Maharashtra)
🏢 Colgate-Palmolive
📍 Maharashtra