JOB PURPOSE
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Driving innovation deployment and strategic capacity planning across the Business Unit markets in Greater Asia, ensuring alignment with Business Group (BG) guardrails and integrated customer operations. The role balances innovation execution, technology enablement, and long- term planning to secure sustainable growth.
WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE
Innovation Deployment
• Lead the timely roll- out of new innovations within the BU, ensuring compliance with BG guardrails and strategic priorities.
• Monitor post- launch performance and resolve supply or quality issues within the first 3 months of deployment.
• Define optimum sourcing networks to meet cost and timing targets for innovation launches.
• Collaborate with cross- functional teams (Supply Chain, Marketing, R&D) to deliver innovations on time and in full (QOTIF).
• Collaborate with procurement to develop key RPM supplier to serve innovations, in terms of capability and capacity.
• Develop first production and transition plans, ensuring capacity readiness and stock build targets at sourcing sites.
Strategic Capacity Planning
• Sourcing network optimization: Study current network of sourcing for GA portfolio and export, propose and lead projects to enhance sourcing network to improve all criteria in cost, cash and service and landing innovations.
• Drive investment decisions for capacity expansion, balancing trade- offs between scenarios and ensuring alignment with strategic priorities.
• Translate category growth assumptions into volume forecasts and capacity requirements.
• Simplification: Lead the analysis and proposal for ATS – Above the Skin simplification, work with markets to ensure the implementation of simplification programs.
• Lead scenario planning and validate outputs of strategic planning processes, making informed trade- offs between cost, service, and risk.
• Resiliency: build resiliency plan for sourcing all markets of GA, in synchronization with global sourcing strategy and region’s business priority.
• Lead VSM: value stream mapping for PC GA manufacturing sites whichever applicable, deliver optimization for GA PC.
• Own the long- term capacity planning process (+24 months horizon) for Finished Goods across sourcing units.
Integrated Planning Guardrails:
• Collaborate with Integrated Planning teams to manage innovation and renovation projects spanning multiple countries.
• Link strategic planning outputs to customer operations, setting guardrails for integrated planning across demand, supply, and innovation streams.
• Ensure transparency and alignment of assumptions across short- , mid- , and long- term horizons.
Collaborative Manufacturing:
• Drive capability building and technology transfer to external partners for innovation launches and capacity expansions.
• Monitor contractual agreements and KPIs for collaborative manufacturing to secure supply continuity and operational excellence.
• Manage relationships and performance of collaborative manufacturing partners providing products to Personal Care GA.
• Ensure compliance with quality, service, and cost standards while integrating partner capacity into long- term planning.
• Align and implement CM network optimization with BG CM team, make sure change management without impact to GA business.
