Innovation Project Manager / Product Development, MBA CCZG

Profile Summary:

After contributing to the growth and success of different FMCG organizations in the past 15 years, this 38 year old white female candidate, with a MBA and MSc, is seeking new challenges with a company in need of someone with exceptional product innovation, planning, leadership, and management abilities. Taking command of an operation or project and guiding it to new performance levels, is one of her greatest strengths. She has made transitions from the Cement industry to Personal Care products to Food products and currently expanding her knowledge of integrating digital marketing into FMCG companies with a keen interest in the African market. Building relationships and client centricity, internally and externally, makes her an asset to any team

She is an extrovert with analytical skills that love problem solving and the use of data to determine consumer trends and brand building.

She has a 2 month notice period (negotiable) and is looking for work in the FMCG digital space or Digital agencies

Summary of Experience

She has done project management (leading teams, budgeting, planning, quality management, problem solving, reporting) for the last 10 year on various brands and products in the international FMCG space, Personal Care, Food and Hygiene products.  She has extensive experience with third party suppliers regarding procurement, new innovation, and print quality auditing. She has travelled the world looking for new products, new types of packaging and consumer research. She was the key account manager for various international 3rd party suppliers and ISO 9001 compliance. She has proven record of Risk management, risk identification and analysis within the FMCG space as well as Six Sigma, regulatory and registration of products within different countries, product specification, product files and regulatory analysis.

She has proven experience in:

• Project management of product production, marketing POS design and deploy, brand management.
• In-depth appreciation of Information management & negotiation of key business partners and Supply Chain/Brand functions.
• Marketing, Media (Print ad, TVC and KV) claim alignment to legal and regulatory aspects.
• Competitor Challenges, ASA arbitration and appeals on key brands.
• Distribution, brand and category management
• A proven understanding of Project Management principles and expert in MS Project and Project Online.