Job Description
The Main Responsibilities Are:
Understanding Category:
- Do a study and search on each category, project, requirements, and needed actions.
- Follow, inspect, and evaluate new technologies and competitors in the market.
Packaging Specification Development/Management and Supply Chain Support:
- Evaluate packaging material specifications and all required documents and data.
- Responsible for creating all needed specs, technical drawings, and documents and providing them.
- Create and maintain a bill of materials.
- Ensure and agree with S/chain that specifications are reproducible and robust at the feasibility stage.
- Manage issuing of specs to suppliers and customers.
- Lead and coordinate feasibility trials.
- Help resolve SC manufacturing issues, quality problems, and supplier-specific issues.
- Report writing (e.g. feasibility trials, lab trials, saving projects, etc.)
Project Participation:
- Innovation roll-out, new technology into the business; cost-effectiveness; activation/promotion.
- Lead and participate in -SC/Chain project teams.
Supplier/Customer Interaction:
- Consider and implement localization of all packaging parts.
- Build relationships with suppliers to leverage opportunities (e.g. cost-effectiveness and improve specifications) in
- alignment with the procurement team.
- Follow and develop suppliers’ capabilities with the help of the regional category team.
- Adopt specifications for specific suppliers.
Artwork and Mould Management:
- Approve technical drawings for the AW process in alignment with the regional team.
- Take responsibility and action for AW, Mould, toothbrush, and packaging parts. approvals.
Cost-Effectiveness:
- Identify opportunities for reducing costs in packaging parts.
- Discuss and support for identified cost savings.
- Implement cost-reduction initiatives e.g. complexity reduction or alternative raw materials.
R&D Skills and Competency Development:
- Develop and maintain personal technical skills.
- Aid in the development of local team technical skills and operating companies.
- Provide technology exposure to broader project teams (brand marketing, S/Chain) – to facilitate understanding and effective teamwork.
Management Process:
- Take responsibility for the management of all projects (packaging parts).
- Lead all relevant team members properly.
- Prepare all results and reports completed and proper for sending to the R&D manager on time.
- Establish a strong network within functions.
- Lead R&D packaging section in local platforms.
- Give technical inputs to gate documents.
- Develop technical skills of packaging R&D specialists and technicians.
- Project and portfolio management.
- Provide technology exposure to broader project teams (brand marketing, supply chain) to facilitate understanding and effective teamwork.
- Create and maintain successful communication channels, integration, and interaction with relevant parts.
Requirements:
Professional Skills:
- Global mindset.
- Solution orientation.
- Communication skills.
- Real accountability.
- External orientation.
- Action/not debate.
- Team alignment.
- Build superior talent.
- Ability to find out root causes, problem-solving, and take action timely and properly.
Others:
- Bachelor's degree in Chemistry, or Chemical Engineering.
- 5 years of R&D experience in various categories, product/process experience.
- English Level: Advanced.