Asia Pacific - Regional Technical Information Innovation Manager

MAIN PURPOSE

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Planning, leading, managing, and executing strategic plan for regional technical information development team and contributing to SAPAC business and global R&D activities from APAC regional technical information development standpoint.

• Plan, lead, manage and execute the strategic plan such as setting team’s goal, building the team organization and job allocation to contribute to SAPAC business and global R&D activities and to maximize the team’s performance.
• Provide monthly report of the team’s activities and projects update to APIC team.
• Monitor and adjust the team’s activities and projects regularly.
• Explore and seek out internal and external activities to improve the strategic plan.
• Direct, educate and motivate the team members to achieve the strategic plan.
• Build good relationship with other departments and external partners to achieve the strategic plan.

Regional technical information development

• Review and approve technical information creation, product name and claims’ substantiation, efficacy tests planning, execution, and analysing.
• Monitor and control the technical information development to meet the goal and timeline.
• Communicate well with marketing, regulatory, and other innovation centre members to build good relationship to execute the above jobs.
• Evaluate and improve the team’s ability for the technical information development by exchanging and exploring internal and external expertise.

Regional marketing activities support

• Supervise the team members to create marketing materials such as mechanism diagram, educational contents, or demo movies to explain unique technology or ingredients and the efficacy for the products.
• Manage and advise to check and verify marketing communications and advertisements from the regional regulation and science points of view and provide alternative suggestions if needed.
• Participate and present technical information in marketing events.
• Seek out novel and attractive technical information toward marketing activities by exploring the competitors’ activities and other innovation centres’ activities, etc. and propose them to MKT.

Regional regulatory activities support

• Manage to answer local authority inquiries by reviewing and signing the explanation letters or providing the supporting documents to meet the requirement and timeline.
• Monitor, share and collaborate with other relevant departments to prepare any potential regulatory risk and take actions to solve them.

Consumer and Competitors research

• According to the global and SAPAC's business directions, plan and manage consumer research in APAC regions to understand APAC consumers deeply and manage competitors’ claims and activities survey to understand the market trend and competitiveness.
• Communicate well with marketing, other innovation centre members and so on, to plan the consumer research and competitor research to make the research beneficial for the business.
• Timely share and update the results with the relevant departments to contribute to their activities on time and effectively.

REQUIREMENTS

• Minimum 6 years’ experience in the cosmetic industry and several years of managerial experience with emphasis on technical information development.
• Broad knowledge of market/technology/dermatology, especially knowledge of prestige brands.
• Strong communication skills to co-work with multiple stake holders such as SAPAC Brand teams, Regulatory, Value Creation G in Global Innovation Centre (GIC).
• Learning agility to understand Product Development flow in HQ and GIC and their way of thinking.
• Strong leadership, educational, motivational, and interpersonal skills to work well as a team.
• Able to work collaboratively and productively with others to achieve the goals.
• Organizational, multi-tasking and prioritization skills.
• Higher curiosity and Proactive attitude.
• Creative but Realistic.
• Graduate from Science or Pharmaceutical department is preferable.
• English Speaking skill.