Team Lead – B2 (Innovation Project Manager) - Capgemini - Mumbai, India
(2025-07)
- Act as Technical Project Leader (TPL) for end-to-end New Product Development (NPD) programs across Personal Care, Beauty & Wellbeing categories, from idea maturation through commercialization and market launch.
- Lead end-to-end New Product Development (NPD) programs across Personal Care and Beauty & Wellbeing portfolios, managing innovations from idea maturity through global market launch.
- Act as Technical Project Leader (TPL), owning Stage-Gate execution, innovation governance, and launch readiness across multiple concurrent products.
- Develop and manage integrated NPD master plans, Gantt charts, and milestone trackers using Microsoft Project, ensuring on-time and risk-controlled delivery.
- Serve as the single technical coordination point between R&D, Packaging, Regulatory, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality, and Marketing teams.
- Drive lab-to-commercial transition, supporting technology transfer, pilot runs, manufacturing validation, and scale-up readiness.
- Lead risk, issue, and dependency management, proactively mitigating formulation, packaging, sourcing, and manufacturing risks.
- Support regulatory submissions and country-specific documentation to enable compliant launch across global markets.
- Enable global-to-local adaptation of beauty and personal care innovations, aligning formulation feasibility with regional regulations and supply constraints.
- Facilitate project team meetings, technical reviews, and leadership governance forums, ensuring clear decisions and rapid issue resolution.
Senior New Product Development Executive - Pilgrim - Mumbai, India
(2024-09 - 2025-06)
- Portfolio Analysis & Insights: Evaluated market trends, competitor products, and consumer needs to identify new product opportunities using tools like MINTEL, HELIUM.
- Innovation & Product Strategy: Defined product pipelines, researched new actives, and developed innovative formulations to meet industry demands.
- Portfolio Execution: Managed new launches, reformulations, and category expansions, ensuring commercial and technical feasibility.
- Technology Transfer & Scale-Up: Led lab-to-commercial production transitions, optimizing processes and ensuring formulation integrity.
- Project & Lifecycle Management: Streamlined product execution using Gantt charts, managed SKU rationalization, and optimized cost structures.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Worked with R&D, marketing, regulatory, and supply chain teams for seamless product development and launches.
- Regulatory & Compliance: Ensured adherence to quality, safety, and regulatory standards while supporting claims validation.
- Portfolio Management: Led the portfolio for Pilgrim Hair Growth Serum, contributing 16% of total revenue and managed skincare, haircare, and suncare categories to drive business growth.
R&D Executive (Product Innovation & Delivery Lead) - Innovist - Manesar, Gurugram, India
(2023-10 - 2024-09)
Brand – Bare Anatomy, Chemist at Play, Sunscoop
- Led end-to-end product execution for multiple haircare and skincare innovation programs, acting as a single point of coordination between functions.
- Managed lab-to-commercial technology transfer, pilot trials, process validation, and scale-up governance.
- Planned and tracked stability studies, validation activities, and manufacturing readiness in line with program timelines.
- Partnered with regulatory and evaluation teams for claims substantiation and ASCI defense, ensuring risk-free market entry.
- Supported margin improvement and cost optimization initiatives, balancing formulation performance with commercial viability.
Research Associate - Pure Cosmeceuticals Pvt Ltd - Jaipur, India
(2022-06 - 2023-10)
Brand – Truth & Beauty
- Designed and developed skincare and haircare formulations from scratch, taking products from concept to commercialization while ensuring cost-effective ingredient selection and creating detailed formulation specification documents.
- Led rapid prototyping and conducted continuous benchmarking of competitor products to establish industry-leading standards.
- Hands-on experience with trending skincare actives, including Tranexamic Acid, Cetyl Tranexamate Mesylate, Ascorbic Acid, Hyaluronic Acid, Alpha Arbutin, Kojic Acid Dipalmitate, Azelaic Acid, and Peptides, ensuring high-performance formulations.
- Conducted in-depth studies on emollients and humectants, optimizing moisture retention, skin feel, and formulation aesthetics for enhanced product performance.
- Performed stability studies and evaluated formulations in different packaging materials to ensure compatibility, quality, and long-term product integrity.
- Conducted finished product testing in both lab settings and consumer trials, refining formulations based on real-world feedback for efficacy and sensory appeal.
- Managed process optimization and cost reduction strategies, balancing performance, stability, and efficiency in formulations.
- Coordinated with the supply chain team for raw material sourcing and alternative vendor development to ensure smooth production and cost efficiency.
Research Trainee - Kiri Cosmetics LLP - Ahemdabad, India
(2021-04 - 2021-10)
- Literature search and evaluation of various personal care formulation (Skincare Actives, Herbal Extracts & Excipients).
- Conducting day to day experiments as per project executives plan. Record all experiments in the record book with clearly defining the experiment details and actions planned.
- To conduct stability study as per regulatory.
- Maintain various ingredients of the laboratory in orderly manner for easy retrieval and use.
- Giving forecast for approval new RM and approval of RM cost before procurement.
- Formulations: SKINCARE – Emulsion based / Water based / Oil Based Serums, Facial Toners, Face wash, Moisturizers, Cleansing Oils.
- Formulations: HAIRCARE – Anti-dandruff Studies, Shampoo cleansing study on scalp, Anti-pollution/dust/UV protection study on hair, Actives based hair serum.
