Associate Researcher

Job Location

MUMBAI GENERAL OFFICE

Job Description

P&G was founded over 180 years ago as a simple soap and candle company. Today, we're the world’s largest consumer goods company and home to iconic, trusted brands that make life a little bit easier in small but meaningful ways. We've spanned three centuries thanks to three simple ideas: leadership, innovation and citizenship. The insight, innovation and passion of hardworking teams have helped us grow into a global company that is governed responsibly and ethically, that is open and visible, and that supports good causes and protects the environment. This is a place where you can be proud to work and do something that matters.

Dedication from Us: You'll be at the core of breakthrough innovations, be given exciting assignments, lead initiatives, and take ownership and responsibility, in creative workspaces where new insights thrive. All the while, you'll receive outstanding training to help you become a leader in your field. It is not just about what you'll do, but how you'll feel: encouraged, valued, purposeful, challenged, heard, and inspired.

What we Offer: Continuous mentorship – you will collaborate with peers and receive both formal training as well as day-to-day mentoring from your manager dynamic and encouraging work environment– employees are at the center, we value every individual and support initiative, promoting agility and work/life balance.

Key Responsibilities  

• Assess the Landscape
• Assess and understand consumer, technology, market, online, competitive, and IP landscape and future-focused shifts to influence or lead the definition of category innovation strategies, new opportunity spaces, product light houses, multi-generation platforms, and new product/pkg ideas, novel claims or credentialing opportunities.
• Discover Insights that Drive Big Idea, Product and Package Innovations, and Benefit Communication
• Reveal conscious & unconscious consumer desires and motivations through observation of consumer behaviors and interactions.
• Identify category givens, trade-offs, and tensions and the scientific reasons behind these.
• Assimilate consumer, market, and technical knowledge into insights that guide technology, idea, benefit communication development.
• Translate Insights to Action
• Articulate consumer problem within the insights, then translate into innovation strategies to ascend current or create new S-curves, technology
• platform/product/package ideas, and novel claims/demos.
• Define the technical problem(s) to solve and measurable design requirements to guide technology development, product design, and/or C&D.
• Integrate consumer, customer, and business needs to define stage-appropriate product/package/claim learning metrics that matter.
• Iteratively Build Prototypes, Measure, C2P2T Model & Learn

Job Skills

• B.Pharm or M.Pharm
• Experience 5 to 8 Years
• Learn via incubating Create and Transform holistic proposition and business models in a targeted transactional market.
• Execute with excellence winning FMOT and SMOT product/package experience.
• Integrate technical readiness across R&D - if assigned Technical Readiness Leader (TRL).
• Guide resolution of startup and assessment of in market quality.
• Define, create, deliver, and track future Commercial/Franchise Innovations to maximize growth by driving trial and consumption
•  Support and defend brand through competitive challenges.
• Reinforce or guide evolution of existing SOEx and leverage existing product innovations to meet new consumer/market needs.
• Develop superior science-based communication and robust claims to consumers and HCPs.

About us

We produce globally recognized brands, and we grow the best business leaders in the industry. With a portfolio of trusted brands as diverse as ours, it is paramount our leaders are able to lead with courage the vast array of brands, categories and functions. We serve consumers around the world with one of the strongest portfolios of trusted, quality, leadership brands, including Always®, Ariel®, Gillette®, Head & Shoulders®, Herbal Essences®, Oral-B®, Pampers®, Pantene®, Tampax® and more. Our community includes operations in approximately 70 countries worldwide.

Visit http://www.pg.com to know more.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate against individuals on the basis of race, color, gender, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, citizenship, disability, HIV/AIDS status, or any other legally protected factor

Job Qualifications

• Master’s degree in pharmacy, Medicine, Science, Engineering, or related fields from atop university with 3 - 4 years of relevant experience
• Strong ownership & self-leadership skills to understand the business objective, local context and market landscape to deliver the required outcomes. 
• Effective oral and written communication skills is a must. 
• Able to work independently, prioritize and perform in a fast-paced environment. 
• Excellent problem-solving skills and use of data to connect multiple ideas and develop solutions. 
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to connect with people from different cultures and levels, both internally and externally 
• Fluency in written and spoken English is a must.

Job Schedule

Full time

Job Number

R000153364

Job Segmentation

Experienced Professionals