Packaging Innovation Lead- Asia, Middle East & Africa

Packaging Innovation Lead-  Asia, Middle East & Africa

Location: This is a Singapore based role 

Permanent, Full-time

About the job:

At Sanofi Consumer Healthcare, we have one shared mission – we work passionately, every day, to ‘serve healthier, fuller lives’ now and for the generations to come.

In order to do so, we strive to act as a force for good by integrating sustainability along our business and employees’ mission and operate responsibly from both a social and environmental point of view.

Everything we do is centered around people’s interests – our consumers, our customers, healthcare professionals, and our employees – across the world.

We are building loved brands that serve 1bn consumers worldwide, through our key platforms: Allergy, Physical & Mental Wellness, Pain, Digestive Wellness and Cough, Cold & Flu.

We aspire to become the best Fast Moving Consumer Health (FMCH) company In & For the world and we aim to build a work environment where people can thrive, grow, enjoy and be at their best.

Main responsibilities:

• Act as the packaging development go-to lead for AMEA, representing Global Packaging Innovation.
• Engages with business functions like growth hub science hub on strategic aspects to feed the short and long-term global packaging strategy and deliver the AMEA business objectives.
• In a global, challenging, and rich environment, owns a pipeline of medicinal (and medical device), food supplement, and cosmetic products packaging development projects in New Product Development (NPD) first and Life Cycle Management.
• You will bring Sanofi CHC’s Packaging Innovation strategy to life, integrating sustainability, digital, and e-commerce, ensuring that the company’s packaging sustainability innovations enhance consumer experience and business performance and support long-term growth ambition.
• Combining a technical understanding of packaging, sustainability, and business acumen in a healthcare environment will play a visible, cross-functional leadership role internally. 
• You will also participate in and guide corresponding cross-functional project teams.
• You must demonstrate leadership, passion, and ability to challenge the status quo to promote consumer-centric packaging solutions that embrace a large span of requirements across all functions (Design, Marketing, R&D, Manufacturing & Supply, Regulatory…) while creating high packaging-driven value to the consumer and ultimately the business. 
• Leads and delivers global packaging solutions & projects that ensure product integrity and value to consumers and are sustainable, affordable, and price tier-relevant. 

To succeed in this job, you must understand the success factors of the job as follows:

• Strong strategic sense to impact business with packaging-driven opportunities in innovation, sustainability, digital, and e-commerce.
• You can connect the dots in the region beyond his location and deploy packaging 360° vision.
• Has good communication skills to turn complex cases into synthetic and holistic recommendations to business partners
• Comfortable with remote management from another region, which requires a good balance between a high level of autonomy and alignment skills to deploy with agility the global strategy in the region  
• Have solid technical expertise that combines with the leadership needed to drive packaging agenda/project in a complex environment.
• Engaged, passionate about packaging, and able to challenge status-quo to push the packaging agenda.
• You have strong influencing skills and the ability to manage ambiguity through flexibility and agility in approaching different situations.
• Achievability:  ability to deliver results, transform strategy into action  

Key results/accountabilities

• Develop and execute a packaging-driven pipeline with business partners building on packaging strategic innovation pillars (sustainability, digital, e-commerce, etc..)
• Embrace the role of a “go to” packaging lead in AMEA 
• Nourish and contribute to developing the long-term packaging vision, mission, and operating principles and developing a high-level strategy to support them.
• Identify packaging solutions that can contribute to Sanofi CHC's strategy to drive growth and profitability.
• Embrace the “packaging E2E go-to leader” role to drive and deliver the pipeline.

Key Stakeholder Relationships:

• Excellent interdependent partnering/ability to lead projects in a high matrix environment, including transversal initiatives as part of the Global Packaging group on various thematic (innovation, process, sustainability, digital, etc.)
• Navigating across different internal/external  functions and partners that are critical to bringing packaging impact like Marketing, Design, Research& Development, Industrial Affairs, Procurement, Regulatory Affairs, packaging suppliers
• Engaging upfront in strategic discussions with marketing and R&D.

About you:

Education

• BS/MS degree in Science within a relevant area linked to package engineering, polymer or mechanical

Required knowledge and/or experience

• Ideally, 10 years of relevant experience in packaging development, preferably from the cosmetic, pharmaceutical, and medical device industries. FMCG can be an option 
• You have good knowledge and sensibility of packaging technologies (materials, molding process, manufacturing…)
• Proven experience in packaging sensibility & consumer focus and likes promoting the importance of packaging in the product experience.
• Very good understanding of regulatory requirements, especially for medicinal products and new sustainability stakes.
• You need to have Project Management experience.  

Pursue progress, discover extraordinary!

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.

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