Regional Product

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with our customers, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,800 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with.
In Singapore, you’ll be at the centre of every innovation, creation and solution available to the entire Asia-pacific region. Working with our research, creation and production units, as well as our renowned perfumery school, you’ll make us a greater force for good. Every day, your passion, your creativity, and your expertise will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.
Every risk you take, creates space for inspiring solutions.

In this newly created role, you will enable portfolio community in the Asia Pacific region, facilitate and support the local portfolio teams based on business needs. Deliver proactive portfolio projects to contribute to the local markets. Manage assigned products and technologies, develop innovation plans/roadmaps and give direction to all local markets efforts to ensure Givaudan's leading position within assigned products & technologies, according to overall goals and strategy. You'll report into our Product & Portfolio Director, APAC Regional Innovation.

**Your role will include**:
Build the APAC regional portfolio community, sharing best practices among the APAC region portfolio teams
Build the global portfolio connections to enhance the network and exchange
Support local portfolio teams based on their needs to improve win rate.
Build the portfolio knowledge centre and training material to ensure the portfolio teams share the same foundation/basic understandings
Digitalization process implementation in the APAC region
Proactive portfolio projects to input new/trendy flavours, icon upgrade for local portfolio teams
Manage assigned regional product and technology portfolio (Emerging Hydration) innovation plans/roadmaps to ensure it is relevant, complete, competitive and profitable, and aligned with the strategy
Define product and technology needs and gaps, measure opportunities, and establish business justification for new regional projects. Validate that solutions provided meet defined regional needs.
Identify gaps and work with sub regions to create and enhance compelling business cases to GPM on regional opportunities and needs (incl. sales/profit projections, regulatory requirements, product performance expectations). Act as the core owner and APAC representative to GPM and the Science & Technology groups, ensuring projects for our region are brought to successful commercialization
Work with the technical and marketing teams in the sub-regions, and with the Global Product Managers (GPM)
Contribute to the global product strategy built by the Global Product Managers
Lead the commercialization of relevant global S&T RPM projects in the APAC region with support from the technical team and local markets
Lead the Definition, Development and Commercialization of any regionally-driven product development projects for the APAC region in assigned products and technologies scope
Develop knowledge of competitor products, communicate changes and recommend corrective responses

You?
Are you looking for an opportunity to shape your world? To express yourself? To work with people as passionate as you? It's your essence we're looking for.

**Your professional profile includes**:
A University Degree in Food Science, Food Technology
Minimum 10 years B2B marketing, portfolio, commercial background within the food or flavour industry, with a track record influencing and collaborating with commercial, marketing and technical colleagues.
Ability to develop deep product knowledge, with the experience working with, and connecting, people from technical, innovation and commercial related backgrounds
Strong project management skills

**Our Benefits**:
Attractive package with benefits
Excellent opportunities for progressive learning and development
A creative team environment that will inspire you
Comprehensive healthcare plans
PTO and family leave

At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.
You work within an inspiring teamwork culture - where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.
Every essence of you enriches our world.
Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees, customers and partners.
Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.