Total 1 management job vacancies in Manufacturing / Production category in Singapore

Objectives of the Position

Manage globally the main group of Niche Antioxidants, ensuring strategic alignment and profitability maximization.

Responsibilities

1. Price management

• Develop global price guidelines & landed cost development forecast.
• Provide global limit and regional base price. Approve deviations from set limits.
• Ensure profitability, volume and value growth according to the budget and long-term strategic plan.

2. Global optimization of cost of supply

• Define and optimize global product strategy (make to stock or make to order)
• Allocate and manage volumes in shortage periods as well as products under declaration of “force majeure”
• Monitor asset utilization and drive inventory optimization for assigned product group.
• Define global co-manufacturing (make-or-buy) and tolling strategy for defined product range. Interact with tollers.
• Manage product transitions from one site to another
• Support restructuring and investment projects for defined product range

3. Product portfolio management

• Analyze the respective portfolio, coordinate, and initiate required actions, e.g., pruning.
• Assure compliance (liaise with product stewardship and regulatory (PS&R)) and quality for the product portfolio (in framework of Non-Conformance Management (NCM) and Management of Change (MOC) process)
• Ensure consistent business case development of innovation projects.
• Develop positioning of new products in line with the global portfolio strategy and re/position existing products in the portfolio. Approve product market introduction (with input from industry segments)
• Define competitive positioning of current and new products in the portfolio.
• Assure the product availability for the launch preparation of a new product.

4. Strategic Business Unit (SBU) strategy development

• Develop, implement and monitor the respective main-group / product strategies in line with global SBU strategy. Define corrective measures where required.
• Guide and challenge key account managers in development of customer strategies
• Support strategic projects in terms of commercial evaluation

5. Functionally drive all portfolio related topics into the regional product management organizations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree preferably in Chemistry, Material Science, or Business Management.
• Minimum 10 years’ experience in marketing, product management, supply chain, sales, R&D, or production.
• Experienced in annual budget planning and financial control
• Demonstrated leadership without functional or disciplinary responsibility.
• Strong analytical skill, project management, technical and commercial background, preferably from polymer and/or plastic additives industry is preferred.
• Excellent communication skills, a good team player who is able to interact in a multicultural and multi-functional environment.