Your Impact
Reporting to the Head of Innovation & Portfolio we have an exciting opportunity for a New Product Development (NPD) Manager responsible for developing and coordinating innovative products that will drive sustainable growth for Asahi Lifestyle Beverages (non-alcohol business).
You will have the opportunity to leverage your strong project management, influencing and stakeholder management skills to work across internal departments such as brand marketing, sales, finance, production, science and technology, to ensure cross-functional team input into some fantastic NPD projects!
Key responsibilities
- Lead product projects through their lifecycle from concept to delivery and deletion
- Manage multiple projects through stage and gate process using Gensight management tool and ensuring key requirements through each stage are completed to pass to next stage.
- Manage a range of projects, mainly minor and major NPD, as well as sustainable cost out product projects.
- Ensure all packaging, regulatory and labelling requirements & quality controls are adhered to in the testing and production of new products.
- Arrange NPD project kick off & team meetings, track progress vs timelines ensuring a results-oriented approach to achieve project milestones
About you
- Tertiary qualification in a professional field related to product marketing
- Experience within a product development role within a food, pharma or beverage environment (preferred beverage environment)
- Proven project management and planning skills with a focus on managing multiple and complex projects in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
- Experience in working with manufacturing to develop and deliver new products.
- Proven success in the development and implementation of new product from concept to delivery
Why Asahi Beverages?
Asahi Beverages is one of the leading beverage companies in Australia and New Zealand with a rich and varied history. Comprising some of Australia and New Zealand’s most loved brands, the company’s Regional Hub is based in Melbourne with three Business Divisions - Asahi Lifestyle Beverages (formerly Schweppes Australia) and Carlton & United Breweries (CUB) in Australia, and Asahi Beverages NZ in New Zealand. There’s always a great deal going on and opportunities abound for those ready to take them!