Assistant Manager, Product Management

Date: Jul 24, 2026

Location: Pune, India

Company: ACG

Organization Context

Position Title:

Assistant Manager, Product Manager, Packaging

Employee Name:

Grade :

M06/M07

Department:

Product Management

Location:

Pune

Reports to:

Lead Product

Reported by:

ACG is the world’s only integrated pharma manufacturing solutions company. We are headquartered in Mumbai , India. ACG has a presence in over 100 countries with its products and services that strive to provide world-class technology across multiple domains. We offer a complete range of solutions beginning with empty capsules; granulation and tablet coating; capsule filling; tabletting; packaging films; blister packing and carton packing to the end-of-line solutions and track and trace systems.

We have an opportunity in ACG Capsule / ACG Engineering / ACG Pharma Packaging / ACG Inspection of a Assistant Manager, Product Manager, Packaging

Job Objective

To innovate, manage and make improvement of the ACG Engineering’s product throughout the product lifecycle, gathering & prioritizing product & customer requirements in such a way that ensures that the product is constantly growing to suit the customer’s needs.

Primary responsibilities

Strategic and planning

Responsible for defining TTM strategies, identifying Market positioning, product positioning, defining value selling features, price positioning

Mapping competition strategy analysis to understand our product positioning and come up with proactive strategy to counter the same. Also, identifies unexplored Markets

Understanding the gap for feasibility with respect to formulation

Formulates sales and marketing strategies including branding, trade shows, reference building, and overall creating conditions for sale

Functional

Core

Conducting customer visits to understand need based on new technologies, emerging trends, enhanced features, possible areas of product creations and conduct detailed analysis for finding possible ideas for new Products/enhancements

Converting ideas to possible features or functionality of the product and sharing detailed possible description of the product with NPD

Ensures Benchmarking with latest technologies, New Processes and New Specification needed by the product and takes action to bridge the gap

Responsible for monitoring milestones planned in the product development cycle by coordinating with responsible departments like design, NPD and keeping track on time and costs, organizing for alpha / beta testing

Accountable for Product launch and communication

Ensuring that the product is well received by the market and performs optimally under the user conditions

Internal process

To keep track of all complaints in coordination with Sales and Marketing for the product and ensure good reference of the product in the marketplace till creation of defined first reference

Ensuring standardization of the product by passing on the first set of comments for pilot batch and share the same with Design/NPD

Ensuring that the sales force is adequately trained on Product knowledge to handle enquiries and value sell on USP’s of the Product

Coordinate with Marketing and support with technical inputs while preparing New Product Promotion material

Ensure proper Pharma related documentation and certification as per regulatory guidelines

Takes decisions on idea generation and suggestion to NPD and creation of TTM strategy post approval and development of the product

Key Result Areas

New customer acquisition

Existing customer retention

Customer feedback on product features

Time to successful of launch of new product variants or features

Key Interfaces

Internal Interfaces

External Interfaces

Zonal Sales Heads

Project Management Office (Product launch prioritisation and planning)

Application Engineering Heads (Product feature changes and approvals)

NPD Heads (Product launches, Product feature changes and approvals)

Marketing Head (marketing communication support)

ACG Engineering Customers .

Third party vendors , e.g. market research firms

ACG Persona

Persona

Level

Competency

Level

Understanding of Product

Intermediate

Understanding of Product Management

Intermediate

Problem Solving

Intermediate

Innovation

Intermediate

Quality and Service Orientation

Advanced

Cross Functional Team Working

Advanced

Drive for Consistent Results

Intermediate

Educational and Experience Requirements

Minimum Requirement

Desired

Level of Education

B.E

MBA/PGDM Marketing

Experience

3 to 4 yrs

5 to 6 yrs