Associate Product Manager - Beauty & Personal Care

Position: Associate Product Manager (Beauty & Personal Care)
Overall Experience: 4 - 6 years
Location: Pune
Working Days: 5 Days from Office
Notice Period Requirement: 30 Days (Maximum)
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Drive end-to-end development of beauty and personal care products from concept to commercialization.
- Translate consumer needs, market insights, and trends into new product opportunities.
- Collaborate with formulation partners and manufacturers to develop, test, and refine product samples.
- Lead product trials, testing cycles, and quality enhancements.
- Benchmark global and domestic beauty brands to identify innovation opportunities.
- Identify and collaborate with third-party manufacturers and suppliers.
- Manage product development timelines, costing, and production readiness.
- Ensure quality standards and performance benchmarks are consistently met.
- Work on packaging development aligned with brand positioning and functionality.
- Partner with packaging vendors through sampling and finalization.
- Ensure adherence to regulatory, safety, and industry standards.
- Support product launches in collaboration with marketing, operations, and design teams.

Candidate Requirements:
- Must have 4+ years of total experience in product development, with at least 2+ years in the beauty/personal care/skincare/cosmetics industry.
- Must have end-to-end experience across product ideation, formulation, development, testing, vendor coordination, commercialization, and launch.
- Must have experience collaborating with formulation partners and third-party manufacturers to develop, test, and refine product samples.
- Must have experience leading product trials, testing cycles, and quality enhancements, while managing timelines, costing, and production readiness.
- Must have a strong understanding of product lifecycle, formulations, manufacturing processes, and beauty & personal care trends, consumer insights, ingredients, and innovations.
- Must have experience with packaging development - evaluating materials, aesthetics, and cost efficiency, and working with packaging vendors through sampling and finalization.
- Must have strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills, working closely with sourcing, marketing, design, regulatory, and manufacturing teams.
- Must have experience ensuring regulatory, safety, and quality compliance, and maintaining product documentation, specifications, and certifications.
Note: Final Interview Round will be Face to Face only