Innovation Manager- Haircare

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.
• Strong 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 doesnt exist today
• Strong ownership and ability to turn ideas into winning products.
• Curiosity, creativity and a hands on approach to product development.