LOCATION: Thailand
REPORTS TO: Director, Global Product Portfolio Tapioca, Rice & Potato, Texture Solutions Food
DIRECT REPORTS: N/A
WORKPLACE TYPE: Hybrid
The Manager – Product Line Management (PLM) TS Food – APAC is responsible for the product line management of all Texture Solutions products made on global assets and sold in APAC. As part of a global team, this role contributes to the realization of Ingredion Winning Aspiration to be the customer-preferred texturizing and healthful solutions supplier and thought leader through our broad portfolio, extensive customer insight and market-leading cost-in-use position that addresses consumer expectations spanning affordability, premiumization and/or clean label requirements.
Core Responsibilities:
- Manage product life cycle and optimize SKUs: rationalize without commoditizing, the portfolio. Actively cannibalize non-strategic and lower margin products, putting controls in place to prevent proliferation of new similar SKUs.
- Monitor quality and service and work to anticipate and quickly resolve issues. Develop contingency and mitigation plans for key product lines in the event of source disruption.
- Make product allocations at constrained assets with the Product Leaders and the Global Supply Chain in a way that optimizes global profitability while considering the long-term customer and strategic implications.
- Continuously make recommendations on sourcing optimization and asset utilization maximization to improve global profit and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC).
- Increase profit velocity through key assets to reduce product costs and improve cash flow.
- Maintain a comprehensive understanding of competitors operations and capabilities, including cost benchmarking and their G2M strategies, to enable informed decisions.
- Support the capital planning process to ensure future growth is not limited by supply.
Qualified candidates will have:
Mandatory requirements:
- Degree in Food Science, Engineering, Supply Chain, or Business.
- Significant food or chemical industry experience with strong business and financial acumen
- Expertise in Product Line Management
- Demonstrated success with Project Management Office or similar assignments.
- English fluency, both written and spoken.
- Willing to travel domestically and within the region (10-20%)
Required behaviors and skills:
- Excellent analytical skills and solid financial acumen.
- Expert in working with high volume of data and leveraging Power BI and other reporting tools.
- Experience in SAP is an added advantage.
- Proven ability to build relationships and lead through influence at all levels of the organization.
- Stakeholders’ management, navigating the complexity of a functional/global/regional matrix.
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills
- Results orientation with sense of urgency and deep curiosity to diagnose problems and find solutions.
- Bias to lead but highly collaborative and works well in teams.
- Understanding of starch chemistries and benefits of texturizers in different applications.
Relocation available: No
Relocation Available:
Yes, Within Country
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