Job Title: Innovation Manager- Haircare

Location: New Delhi, India

Company: MARS Cosmetics

About MARS Cosmetics:

MARS Cosmetics is a globally recognized beauty brand that thrives on innovation, diversity, and empowering individuals through high-quality beauty solutions. Headquartered in New Delhi, MARS Cosmetics is committed to offering groundbreaking products that meet the ever-evolving needs of consumers worldwide.

About the Role:

MARS Cosmetics is looking for an Innovation Manager – Haircare to identify, develop and launch the next generation of high performance haircare products for consumers.

Key Responsibilities:

- Own the haircare innovation pipeline from consumer insight and product concept to commercial launch.
- Identify whitespace and emerging opportunities across shampoos, conditioners, masks, serums, oils, styling and scalp care.
- Track global innovation across India, Korea, China, Japan, Europe and the US, translating relevant trends into products for India.
- Benchmark leading products on formula, claims, performance, ingredients, packaging and price architecture.
- Develop strong product briefs and work closely with R&D;, Packaging, Procurement, Marketing and Manufacturing to bring concepts to market.
- Evaluate new ingredients,



technologies, formats and suppliers that can create meaningful product differentiation.
- Conduct consumer research, product testing and competitive analysis to continuously improve concepts.
- Build a 3–5 year innovation roadmap for MARS Haircare while balancing novelty, consumer relevance, scalability and commercial potential.

Ideal Candidate:

- 4–8 years of experience in haircare innovation, product development, category management, R&D; or a closely related role.
- Deep understanding of the haircare consumer, products and competitive landscape.
- Robust product intuition combined with analytical and commercial thinking.
- Ability to independently discover opportunities and convert ambiguous ideas into executable products.
- Highly curious, hands on and comfortable working across both consumer insights and technical product development.

What We Value:

- A product obsessed builder who constantly asks, “What should exist that doesn't exist today?”
- Strong ownership and ability to turn ideas into winning products.
- Curiosity, creativity and a hands on approach to product development.

📌 Innovation Manager- Haircare (Delhi)
🏢 MARS Cosmetics
📍 Delhi