New Product Development Project Manager, Coty

>> My name is Amanda Dellea [assumed spelling]. I am a Project Manager for New Product Innovations and Development for Coty, a beauty and fragrance company. So my job starts essentially when marketing approaches my team with a new product development, innovation or promotion. The budget that they have for the project, as well as the timing that they'd like it to hit market, and ultimately the end consumer. From there, it becomes my job to work with all every team, such as Production, Planning, Purchasing, which will all end up touching the product in order to get it to the end consumer. I'm responsible for providing the team with a detailed timeline of all tasks and due dates and ensuring the project stays on track, on budget as well as I track quality demand projections. Probably our most recent innovation that everyone has been seeing is Sally Hansen Miracle Gel. It's a new at-home gel system that does not require the UV light. It was a new technology that was presented to us that had been developed actually with one of our suppliers. The goal was first to market, first to put it out on the mass market, so usually where a product to develop full time would take about over a year, we were given about six to eight months to have this one fully developed and out to our end consumer. So it becomes kind of working with all of the teams, working on a very compressed timeline as we call it. Just ensuring that everybody understands it's for the best interest of the business and the project to deviate from their standard process, where normally if they would get four weeks to complete a task, we ask them to do it in one week. So that was probably the biggest challenge, was just managing the people and helping them to understand we needed to get first to market, and it was for the best of the project, so we were able to launch it. And it's actually doing very well, and very successful. Day-to-day is basically first and foremost I always have lots of E-mails. Depending on the day or the time of the month I could be running reports, I could be tracking projects, I could be tracking inventory levels-- a little bit of everything.