Position Purpose and Summary The purpose of the role is to execute the new 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 current 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

- Ensure adherence to the Product Calendar for the year – maintaining the required quantity, quality and timelines at optimal cost.

- Study the new collection requirements and Design directions and prepare for the same from sampling/ manufacturing perspective.

- Be updated with evolving Consumer, Market, Product, global & Indian trends (across categories and not just jewellery) to be ahead of the game and constantly see how the same can be applied in business in collaboration with Design team.

- Responsible for end to end specified allocated vendor management.

- Work closely with the NPD-Q.C Team by timely update and involving in the interim milestone stages in order to bring error free and best in class Prototypes Products.

- Support in the development of alternate solutions which are cost efficient innovative to existing problems based on benchmarks and competitor analysis.

- Cascade the quality culture in production through building awareness among team members and product review at each stage.





- Re-engineering of some products for quality & optimal pricing improvement/Process improvement.

- Allocate the design concept to the right vendors based on the capability of the vendor and evaluate the samples based on the inputs from various stakeholders.

- Ensure that the recommendations from the stakeholders are incorporated for the freezing of the design concept post the requisite approvals.

- Liaison with the vendors in the development of representative samples for market testing and incorporate iterations for design concept finalization.

- Ensuring the quality parameters are met in sync with our NPD-QC team & repeat order QA teams.

Critical Competencies For Success

- An individual with strong understanding of Design & Product Prototyping and Development.

- Strong Negotiation and Influencing skills to manage the external as well as internal stakeholders.

- Ability to collaborate closely with other business teams to deliver value to the Aditya Birla Group. Excellent at Stakeholder Management including developing mutually beneficial long-term relationships with internal as well as external stakeholders.

Person Profile A successful candidate should have at least 6 - 12 years of experience in new product development in the Jewellery industry.

- A solid background in new product development in a leading jewellery manufacturing firm.

- Specifically, the successful candidate should have:

- Exposure to all the aspects and functions of jewellery prototyping and development.

- Should know all the NPD processes.

- Should have exposure to Jewellery manufacturing processes.

- Educational Qualification: Bachelor of Design / degree in design/ Bachelor in engineering/ Diploma in Design/ Development.

📌 Manager NPD - Studded (Maharashtra)
🏢 Aditya Birla Group
📍 Maharashtra