LOCATION: Singapore
REPORTS TO: Regional Customer Innovation Manager, Asia Pacific Beauty & Home Care
WORKPLACE TYPE: Hybrid
Company Background:
Ingredion is a Fortune 500 provider of ingredient solutions that helps nourish, comfort, sustain, and delight people around the world. Ingredion’s wide range of ingredient solutions is strategically designed to address changing consumer trends and preferences. Our specialty portfolio includes starch-based texturizers, clean and simple ingredients, plant-based proteins, sugar reduction and specialty sweeteners, and food systems. Our innovative ingredient solutions are used by consumers in everyday products, from foods and beverages to paper, beauty & home, and pharmaceuticals. And we do it all in a planet-friendly sustainable manner.
We bring the potential of people, nature and technology together to make life better.
The Regional Technical Service will provide expertise and work as a key resource for Ingredion’s Beauty & Home business unit. As part of the Global Beauty & Home Innovation function and adopting a startup mentality within a multi-national corporate environment, you will be responsible for providing personal care expertise to Ingredion’s global beauty & home product portfolio and new product development projects. You will advise on beauty & home matters while partnering across all functions and departments to accomplish company objectives.
Core Responsibilities:
- Work with manager to build new Beauty care application capability to support regional and global need.
- Support regional Sales and Business Development Teams by joint customer visit and presenting Beauty care oriented content for customer inquiries and at customer meetings/workshops.
- Develop existing products new positioning, new products application data and process
- Identify and initiate major technology programs and innovation to meet the needs of Ingredion’s business and strategic plans.
- Work with Business Team to co-create and implement GTM plans by region for focused countries, customers, and segments.
- Provide technical training to distributors
- Proactive on opportunities and solutions by developing scientific materials for internal/external customers and responding internal & external Beauty & Home science related questions.
- Maintain relationships with key customers and sales personnel within Ingredion to ensure effective communication channels are in place.
- Support regional prototype development and marketing materials at trade show and scientific organizations relevant to Beauty care science and technology, building connections with research organizations.
- Help team to collect market trend and competitor intelligence
- Help manager to prepare the presentation for key stakeholder meeting and customer visits
- Attend B&H key projects review meeting and take meeting minutes
- Ensure the laboratory maintains high standards of cleanliness, safety, and compliance with all relevant regulations and guidelines.
- Provide administrative support to management as required.
Qualified candidates will have:
- Bachelor’s degree in science or chemistry or related science field majors.
- Min. 5 years’ experience in technical service, application field and having a record of delivering results.
- Work experience in skin care or cosmetic business companies or ingredient suppliers
- Able to travel domestic & internationally
- Preferably with formulation expertise
- Good presentation skill incl. powerpoint making and presenting to the audience confidently
- Experience designing, managing, conducting, and interpreting lab results preferred.
- Demonstrate ability to research and appraise scientific information and translate it into clear evidence-based messages.
- Excellent communication skills with an ability to present to a range of audiences, both within the organization and at external fora
Relocation Available:
No