New Products Associate, Custom Brands North America (Allendale, NJ, US) at Edgewell Personal Care

Position Summary:

The New Products Associate is responsible for setting up all items in Edgewell systems to enable manufacturing to produce customer orders, for the Custom Brands Group. The New Products Associate monitors the progress towards launching all new and revised items, including promotional items via the G2M process, and communicates any issues or obstacles to Marketing and Sales. The New Products Associate also manages the Marketing Project process, addresses inventory concerns, and assists the Marketing team when applicable.

Accountabilities

• Coordinate Item Set-up/G2M Process:
  • Review Item Set Up forms from Sales/Marketing to ensure the information provided is detailed and accurate and identify any obstacles to launch.
  • Create and release Go2Market templates for each item, to initiate the internal workflow for manufacturing.
  • Set up codes to facilitate drop ship material in and out of manufacturing plants.
  • Track G2M’s for each item to ensure progress and alert task owners of status and potential delays.
  • Inform Sales/Marketing of any issues associated with the set-up and implementation for all G2M’s.
  • Assist Art Dept on item set up and artwork release.
  • Work with Supply Chain and Logistics on G2M project progress.
  • Create/link manufacturing case and inner carton labels.
  • Generation of UPC Bar Codes as needed.

• Manage Marketing Project Process:
  • Generate, monitor progress, and update critical dates for all Marketing Projects.  Ensure timely completion to facilitate introduction of new products.
  • Host Marketing Project Review meetings, publish appropriate follow-up action items and maintain detailed records for post-launch review.
  • Work with Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain and Manufacturing on tracking all items.  Provide information for tracking documents (ITR/PTR).

• Item Life Cycle Maintenance
  • Manage excess and slow-moving inventory process, identify reduction opportunities and generate disposal recommendation to operations to help meet and maintain inventory turn goals.
  • Work with Supply Chain to turn items on/off for production.
  • Review Price List monthly and ensure items are active and work with Marketing, Sales, and Supply Chain to obsolete when necessary.

• File management of documents pertaining to new/revised G2Ms, Marketing Projects and Obsolescence.
  • Other Marketing Support duties as appropriate.

Required Education, Skills and Experience

• 4-year degree from an accredited college.
• 2-3 years’ experience, preferably for a manufacturer of consumer-packaged goods

Desirable Education, Skills and Experience

• • Good working knowledge of product development process for consumer-packaged goods, private label experience preferred.
  • Strong project management skills
  • Highly accurate and organized, very detail oriented.
  • Able to multi-task and juggle priorities as needed.
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Independent worker/self-starter
  • Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint
  • Experience with SAP and item maintenance
  • Willing to learn, open to be trained  

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