معاون مدیر تحقیق و توسعه

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.