Remote Senior Manager, Personal Care Innovation

Position/Title: Senior Manager of Innovation (Personal Care)
Department: Marketing
Job Classification: Exempt
Job Type: Full-Time
Location: Remote

Who We Are

Himalaya Wellness is a fast-growing company specializing in dietary supplements and personal care categories. Since Himalaya’s inception in 1930, we’ve been driven by a single passion – to develop safe, innovative natural products for a healthier, happier life. Still family-owned after over 95 years, Himalaya Wellness is now a global omnichannel company, with products available in 100+ countries worldwide and counting.

To further our mission of ‘wellness in every home, happiness in every heart’, we are embarking on a growth plan to expand in the US market.

Who We’re Looking For

Himalaya Wellness is seeking a Senior Manager of Innovation to develop and launch a robust pipeline of North American innovation projects in Personal Care categories. There is a primary focus on Oral Care and Baby Care categories with possible category expansion in the future.

Reporting to the Sr. Director of Strategic Marketing & Innovation, you will be responsible for identifying market opportunities and overseeing new product launches to drive incremental, sustainable, and profitable growth. Responsibilities will include leading category deep dives, uncovering white space opportunities, writing new product briefs, and managing timelines, budgets, and vendor activities to bring a new item from concept to reality.

You will collaborate internally with North American brand marketing, sales, growth, and operations teams, as well as Himalaya team members globally in the Dubai and Bangalore hubs.

In this role, you will join an organization with high expectations for strategic thinking and on-point execution. We are looking for a candidate who can be flexible and work with a sense of urgency in a dynamic, changing environment. We seek to hire and support individuals who ask questions and uncover ways to improve strategies and tactics involving our brands, operations, and go-to market activities.

Himalaya’s tremendous growth provides our employees with many new career and development opportunities. We’re looking for teammates who are driven, eager to learn, and excited about the opportunity for future career expansion.

Responsibilities:

• Leads North American Personal Care innovation projects from ideation to launch in collaboration with key cross-functional partners, ensuring that initiatives launch on-time, on-scope, and on-budget.
• Performs category and competitive deep dives using syndicated and secondary data sources to identify white space opportunities and extracts key insights to build a business case.
• Develops project brief to drive new items forward, gaining alignment with key stakeholders and leadership. Uses brief to scope and scale up projects with R&D and manufacturing partners.
• Works collaboratively with cross-functional partners in brand marketing, sales and operations teams. Depending on the project, team members may also include global Himalaya colleagues located in Dubai and India.
• Establishes project schedules and oversees all micro activities within the product development process from inception through commercialization—including formulation, packaging, testing, artwork development, stability, and production.
• Effectively communicates with stakeholders on project progress, risks/roadblocks and launch timing. Proactively identifies risks and issues within projects;
  Troubleshoots and leads risk mitigation and contingency planning to avoid launch delay.
• Works with brand and sales teams to craft selling story for new items, relevant to both category buyers and consumers.
• Builds knowledge and expertise by seeking additional training and staying up to date on…