Manager of R&D

Are you ready to join a fast-growth, hyper-focused company with a variety of people from very different walks of life - a close-to-perfect ecosystem for both personal and professional growth?

Our client is a Delhi based healthcare platform that is dedicated to Ayurveda and provides wellness solutions to its customers that is tailored and fine-tuned to their requirements. They have created a unique balance of Ayurvedic herbs and western medicine to come up with courses and medical advice which will not only rid their patients of the illness but also helps them bring the body back into balance.

 

As a Manager of R&D, you will deliver innovation, renovation, value improvement projects for the company.

• Setting up cross functional teams that do Product and Packaging Development, Literature search/Monograph generation, Consumer and Clinical Validation, Regulatory support
• Establishing feasibility and Manufacturing Scale up/ Commercialization on Project/product basis and over see their management
• Locating new Ingredients (both actives/formulation agents) that can add value to the innovations and build USP for the product.
• Challenging the team to understand and pick ideas form Traditional knowledge (both ingredients/Recipes/Processes) and adopting them in new products.
• Driving the Innovation Strategy for the company
• Driving value improvement programs in the company to optimize cost and benefits.
• Looking at partnerships with external eco system to accelerate innovation plans including getting them to do NPD and provide lead products.
• Training and capability building of the team
• Setting up of a need based Formulation development R&D infrastructure and Facility for the company to initiate in-house R&D
• Developing and implementing a robust QA for 3P suppliers and implement them same.

 

• 7-15 years of R&D Experience in Naturals, Ayurveda, Personal Care at a Group/Team Leader or Head level.
• Fully operational on R&D and Product development related activities.
• Good knowledge of International (specifically US) and Indian regulations