Assistant Manager, Product Management

Organization Context

Position Title

Assistant Manager, Product Manager, Packaging

Employee Name

Grade :

M06/M07

Department

Product Management

Location:

Pune

Reports To

Lead Product

Reported By

ACG is the worlds only integrated pharma manufacturing solutions company. We are headquartered in Mumbai , India. ACG has a presence in over 100 countries with its products and services that strive to provide world-class technology across multiple domains. We offer a complete range of solutions beginning with empty capsules; granulation and tablet coating; capsule filling; tabletting; packaging films; blister packing and carton packing to the end-of-line solutions and track and trace systems.

We have an opportunity in ACG Capsule / ACG Engineering / ACG Pharma Packaging / ACG Inspection of a Assistant Manager, Product Manager, Packaging

• Job Objective
• To innovate, manage and make improvement of the ACG Engineerings product throughout the product lifecycle, gathering & prioritizing product & customer requirements in such a way that ensures that the product is constantly growing to suit the customers needs.
• Primary responsibilities

• Responsible for defining TTM strategies, identifying Market positioning, product positioning, defining value selling features, price positioning
• Mapping competition strategy analysis to understand our product positioning and come up with proactive strategy to counter the same. Also, identifies unexplored Markets
• Understanding the gap for feasibility with respect to formulation
• Formulates sales and marketing strategies including branding, trade shows, reference building, and overall creating conditions for sale

Core

• Conducting customer visits to understand need based on new technologies, emerging trends, enhanced features, possible areas of product creations and conduct detailed analysis for finding possible ideas for new Products/enhancements
• Converting ideas to possible features or functionality of the product and sharing detailed possible description of the product with NPD
• Ensures Benchmarking with latest technologies, New Processes and New Specification needed by the product and takes action to bridge the gap
• Responsible for monitoring milestones planned in the product development cycle by coordinating with responsible departments like design, NPD and keeping track on time and costs, organizing for alpha / beta testing
• Accountable for Product launch and communication
• Ensuring that the product is well received by the market and performs optimally under the user conditions

• To keep track of all complaints in coordination with Sales and Marketing for the product and ensure good reference of the product in the marketplace till creation of defined first reference
• Ensuring standardization of the product by passing on the first set of comments for pilot batch and share the same with Design/NPD
• Ensuring that the sales force is adequately trained on Product knowledge to handle enquiries and value sell on USPs of the Product
• Coordinate with Marketing and support with technical inputs while preparing New Product Promotion material
• Ensure proper Pharma related documentation and certification as per regulatory guidelines
• Takes decisions on idea generation and suggestion to NPD and creation of TTM strategy post approval and development of the product
• Key Result Areas
• New customer acquisition
• Existing customer retention
• Customer feedback on product features
• Time to successful of launch of new product variants or features
• Key Interfaces

External Interfaces

• Zonal Sales Heads
• Project Management Office (Product launch prioritisation and planning)
• Application Engineering Heads (Product feature changes and approvals)
• NPD Heads (Product launches, Product feature changes and approvals)

Marketing Head (marketing communication support)

• ACG Engineering Customers .

Third party vendors , e.g. market research firms

• ACG Persona

Level

Competency

Level

• Understanding of Product
• Intermediate
• Understanding of Product Management
• Intermediate
• Problem Solving
• Intermediate
• Innovation
• Intermediate
• Quality and Service Orientation
• Advanced
• Cross Functional Team Working
• Advanced
• Drive for Consistent Results
• Intermediate

• Educational and Experience Requirements

Desired

Level of Education

• B.E

MBA/PGDM Marketing

Experience

• 3 to 4 yrs
• 5 to 6 yrs