Category Development Assistant R&d

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose. Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

**Research & Development**:

- In Research and Development, we're full of highly skilled talents that include Scientists, Engineers, Medical, Clinical and Regulatory professionals - all working to create a cleaner, healthier world. With nine Centres of Excellence, we continually seek out new opportunities by using science, our entrepreneurial flare and our fearless innovation to develop and enhance our existing portfolio, never compromising on quality or performance.

We do the right thing, always, by ensuring we act with responsibility and integrity, by complying with regulatory legislation across the globe, whilst ensuring our products are safe for our consumers and are to the highest quality.

The size of our organisation means you'll have the opportunity to learn and work in different functions within R&D, giving you exposure to different disciplines, teams and environments. You will also have access to our Research and Development Academy, designed to develop our team and allow you to grow in our great organisation.

**About the role**:
Reporting to Product Innovation & Strategy Director, this role will be responsible for the compliance and control, budget and expense management as well as adminstration matters for the R&D department.

**Your responsibilities**:

- **Compliance and Controls**
- Facilitate and maintain sensory informed consent form of employees and visitors participating in sensory.
- Facilitate and maintain Quarterly R&D Activities Tracking Management (ACE, Finance) for audits or external financial reportings.
- Facilitate and maintain updated tracking files of manhours spent, R&D activities and corresponding consumables and services spending by classification according to various requirements.
- Maintain clear and consistent filing systems, electronic and/or paper, as required of the type of documentation.

**Organization Movements Tracking and Recording**
- Manage records of R&D organization charts, headcount tracking, and staff dates of employment for various internal reviews and external business and audit purposes.
- Maintains R&D master data of personnel's technical profile, residency, dates of tenure for external audit and reporting (ASTAR, Qualifying incentive projects).

**SOPs Management (PD, Nutrition Gallery Visitor SOP)**
- Document controller (upload for approval, track, retire) for procedural documents of Product Development, R&D Operations and Process Engineering.
- Initiate periodic review of procedural documents by checking document owners, validity and duration. Ensures there is proper handover of procedure document ownership for any movements in the organization.

**R&D People Training Record Management**
- Liase with respective departments of R&D in the update of the training curriculum.
- Uploads training curriculum of each department in QualityOne VTS.
- Maintains team members external post training feedback and report.

**Sharepoints Management and Compliance Reports Management**
- Manages list of sharepoints used by R&D.
- Conducts annual review of users with Sharepoint owners, Innovation Compliance Manager, respective line managers.

**2. Budget and Expense Management**- Prepare and update budgets and forecasts for the departments (cost centers) of Management, Product Development, Innovation Compliance teams.
- Tracks expenses and reconcile any discrepancies of actuals on a regular basis.
- R&D Projects Supplies and Services.
- Manages end-to-end purchase management for R&D projects suppliers and services (raw materials, ingredients, external lab tests).
- Manages end-to-end contract administration for subscriptions of R&D department.

**3. R&D Administration and Employee Engagement**- R&D Visitors Management which may includes hotels, transfers, meals, meetings booking.
- Handles any group trips and hotel booking as may be required.
- Adminsters R&D's rewards and recognition program and develop communication materials on people success stories.
- Forms and keep track of annual membership of Mindset program across R&D departments.
- Liaise with line managers and keep track of annual SME program for talent development.
- Source and conduct negotiation of venues and teambuilding vendors for regional meeting events (regional meetings, product development), lead the corresponding contract administration, POs event safety risk assessment.

**The experience we're looking for**:

- Diploma in Accounting, Finance, administration or relevant field
- Minimum 2 years experience in accounting, finance, communications, knowledge and information management
- Knowledge of SAP is a must have
- Knowledge in MSExc