Position Purpose and Summary

The purpose of the role is to execute the recent product prototyping and development in line with the strategic objectives of the brand. To ensure the new products are delivered as per the Product Calendar with the defined specifications (Quality, Quantity and Timelines).

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

Lead Proto development for specifical region/category for new collections/capsules along with the requirements of Design team in a manner that best translates design into live product.
Review the technical evaluation of the design concept brief to ensure that its feasible for production.
Review the CAM model/Silver/Ghat of loaded designs for its alignment to the requirements and ensure that recommendations are incorporated for proceeding further.
Review the Final Prototype and garner required approvals and ensure that the product is fully quality compliance and put into stock post Final approvals.
Bring in Innovative approach to design through newer settings/workmanship/look/ stone cuts etc.



utilize them in new collections and collaborate with Design team to use in future collections
Maintain Gross profit of the products for the category by coming up with ways to utilize the raw materials in the most effective manner.
Find new ways to make products at as low cost as possible, challenge and reduce timelines of development to improve process efficiency while maintaining supreme product quality.
Network with new vendors/manufacturing sources/ new technology sources to bring in expertise.
Identify and evaluate the vendors based on their capabilities and offerings to best partner based on the requirements.
Evaluate the performance of the vendor and undertake appropriate actions based on the same.
Support in providing technical guidance to the vendors to build new capabilities and upgrades in their existing process to match our requirements so to scale up as per the business requirements
Operations Management:
Design Operations
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📌 Manager NPD (India)
🏢 Aditya Birla Group
📍 India