Job title: Senior R&D Manager
Job type: Permanent
Emp type: Full-time
Industry: Chemicals/Plastics/Paper
Functional Expertise: Others Quality Assurance/ Quality control
Salary type: Monthly
Salary: Negotiable
Location: Bangkok, TH
Job published: 2024-08-01
Job ID: 121887
Contact name: Aye Thadar Phyo, Tanan Chaisiritanakorn

Job Description

Our client is one of the leading packaging companies for food, beverage, pharmaceutical, medical, home- and personal-care, and other products.

They're looking for an R&D Manager who will be a leader and support the execution of programs and achievement of the long-term goals and short-term business plan by overseeing R&D efforts in assigned areas/markets. Will be aligned with key market segments or technology thrust. Contributes to influencing decisions, semi-regularly outside of core area. Technical/product support across multiple products and/or processes – regularly includes key customers and/or initiatives.

Responsibilities

  • Demonstrating safety as a core value and embedding the right behaviours in your team.
  • Team leadership: talent and performance leadership, management and development.
  • Aligning project priorities with business plan goals and leading a team to drive projects technically and administratively.
  • Managing the execution of the project portfolio for assigned market and/or business.
  • Identifying new product and market opportunities, building business cases and defining strategy with other functions.
  • Planning the execution of new product development programs. Overseeing the concept to commercialization.
  • Facilitating ownership for stage gate within the team and business.
  • Ensuring the design of experiments and statistical data analysis is embedded within the team activities.
  • Establishing the assignment of projects and managing technical resources responsible for conducting daily development and commercial support activities – (Work scope / Change control across direct reports).
  • Overseeing customer-related opportunities by ensuring proper information gathering, arranging appropriate analytical support and interfacing with other employees, suppliers & customers.
  • Investigating new customer requests and working with team members to develop and propose strategies to provide new packaging solutions to meet those needs.
  • Developing or supporting the development of capital expense and project budgets for assigned area(s) of technology.
  • Supporting the execution of new programs. Managing spend on assigned projects and reviewing regularly.
  • Supporting proper initiation of capital projects as applicable – including working cross-functionally with all necessary teams to align from request to authorization to implementation.
  • Partnering in the development of specifications for production equipment and the selection, purchase and installation of the equipment as applicable.
  • Transferring technical information across regions, and working with the business group resources to fit the local organizational structure and culture to ensure project success.
  • Ensuring appropriate project documentation and reporting.
  • Partnering cross-functionally in supplier/vendor management.
  • Establishing the assignment of projects and managing technical resources responsible for conducting daily development and commercial support activities – (Work scope / Change control across direct reports).
  • Developing and protecting intellectual property in partnership with the Intellectual Property team.
  • Leading sustainability initiatives, developing new solutions, transferring technology from other regions, and supporting customers in creating a sustainability roadmap.
  • Handling relationship management, and working with the Global Project Team to secure the business for this project.
  • Working in partnership with the global project team to ensure that Global and the strategies are aligned and complementary and agree with key deliverables/targets within the Project.
  • Building key relationships across the functional teams to ensure effective problem management/resolution channels.
  • Communicating the company's key learnings from process, system and sales resolution to reduce customer dissatisfaction and churn.
  • Handling team management, participating, creating and leading cross-functional teams within the Project, developing team capabilities and ensuring. collaboration across all the other functional teams, BU teams and local contacts.

Qualifications / Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience with demonstrated, progressive success in a technical capacity within a global manufacturing environment.
  • 5 years prior leadership experience.
  • Ability to work independently and proactively and manage project stream completion across functional and business unit lines.
  • Flawless execution and delivery of results in a fast-paced environment with high EQ and excellent communication skills.
  • Change management, establishing strong relationships quickly and managing the requirements of multiple key stakeholders effectively up, down and across the organization.
  • Priority setting: managing parallel demands, at times with multiple internal customers, and multiple integrations.
  • Global dexterity, including work across time zones, jurisdictions, and cultures.
  • Communication - Influence others.
  • Negotiation - leading team.
  • Analytical and reporting.