Job Summary:

The New Product Development (NPD) Unit is a strategic function responsible for ideating, planning, and enabling the readiness and launch of new products and propositions. This role offers an opportunity to work at the center of product innovation and business execution, partnering across multiple teams to shape customer-centric, market-relevant, and commercially viable solutions.

This position is suited for high-potential individuals who thrive in a fast-paced, high-performance environment and are looking to build themselves into robust future product managers. The role demands ownership, strong attention to detail, structured thinking, business maturity, and the ability to independently drive outcomes with speed and accountability

Key Responsibilities:

- Support the development of the product roadmap for Axis Max Life Insurance through field insights, primary research, secondary research, and market-led opportunity assessment.
- Conceptualize and support the launch of new products and strengthen the value proposition of existing products through re-pricing, feature enhancement, or proposition refinement in line with the agreed annual product calendar.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure operational readiness and seamless launch of new products, features, and related functionalities.
- Proactively align stakeholders across IT, Legal, Pricing, Marketing, Distribution, Training,



and other key functions to enable smooth, timely, and compliant product rollout.
- Drive timely product launch execution across channels, including product readiness inputs and training support for sales, customer service, and relevant backend teams.
- Contribute to the improvement of point-of-sale experience by helping develop tools, frameworks, and enablers that shift the sales conversation from “what to sell” to “how to sell.”
- Support closure on key product design elements and ensure channel alignment through coordination with Product Channel Managers and Channel Heads.
- Analyze product, market, channel, and performance-related data to derive actionable insights and support fact-based decision-making.
- Identify risks, dependencies, and execution bottlenecks early, and raise issues with clarity and transparency to ensure timely resolution.
- Take end-to-end ownership of assigned workstreams, ensuring high-quality output, strong follow-through, and disciplined execution in a high-pressure environment.
- Leverage productivity tools, including AI-enabled solutions, to automate routine or repetitive tasks, improve efficiency, and enhance quality of output wherever relevant

Requirements: 2+ years' relevant experience

Prior experience in life insurance/ product development / product management

MBA from a reputed business school preferred

📌 Manager - Product Pricing (Gurugram)
🏢 Axis Max Life Insurance
📍 Gurugram