Product Developer IFP Tissue

Job Description

Become part of the team powering household names like Andrex®, Kleenex®, Cottonelle®, Scott®, Viva®, and WypAll®. At Arbex, everything you need is right here—innovation, growth, and the chance to leave a real mark.

You were made to create what’s next: designing new technologies, diving into data, optimising digital experiences, and constantly developing better, faster ways to get results. You want to be part of a performance culture dedicated to building technology for a purpose that matters. Here, you’ll work in an environment that promotes sustainability, inclusion, well-being, and career development while you help us shape the future of tissue and hygiene for billions of people around the world. We’ll be Unstoppable Together.

About You

In one of our professional roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the centre.

This is a new and exciting role that is being created in the IFP Innovation Product Development team. The IFP R&D Product Developer will lead pioneering innovations for tissue products across our business to consumer and business to business categories at a global level.

The breath of this role will be a one of a kind compared to other FMCG R&D roles – with the unique opportunity of being responsible for the entire end to end product development, including prototyping, process development, qualifications, claims and demos.

Role Overview & Primary Accountabilities:

Innovation Design & Development:

• Be the expert for your product area on the ideal product for consumers and customers and your products performance versus competition.
• Be a key player in driving forward our ambitious sustainability agenda.
• Influencing & partnering with multi-functional teams to develop & deliver programs/projects that are consistent with our strategies and leverage our competitive & consumer understanding to deliver against local, business unit needs.

Project Leadership:

• Working as part of multi-functional team to provide R&D leadership on your assigned innovation/renovation projects: leading design and development phases of the project to ensure consumer & technical qualification is completed, and ultimately deliver product proposition that meets key criteria (performance, compliance, cost, timings).
• In this role you will also lead claims development and substantiation, benefit visualisation and demos to support innovation/renovation programs and commercial renovation.
• Ensuring seamless handover to LCM and mill teams to ensure an un-interrupted transfer of R&D project ownership through to launch, providing on-going consultation on any in-market follow-ups & support.
• You will be maintaining equipment associated with the production, packaging and distribution of ARBEX products through preventative, predictive and corrective maintenance work. This role is part of ARBEX’s investment in creating new jobs and expanding its capabilities to produce premium [Scott, Kleenex] that are essential to millions of lives around the world, and right here in Thailand. We’ll be Unstoppable Together.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a major scientific or engineering discipline.
• Strong project management experience.
• Experience of providing R&D support to qualify new product start-ups & facilitate handover to Product Supply/external contract manufacturers.
• Strong product design/development experience and proven ability to translate consumer needs/wishes into product proposals/ideas, and then developing & qualifying products from technical & consumer point of view.
• Good technical mastery across multiple technologies that are relevant for IFP dry tissue and formulated products.
• Has experience working with External Contract Manufacturers (ECM).
• Good knowledge of relevant compliance & conformance requirements for regulated products and familiar with change management process.
• Strong Technical Curiosity: be an idea generator and a consumer & brand champion with good technical know how.
• Strong verbal/written communication & influencing skills.
• Good collaboration & team working skills.

Total Benefits

We believe that our employees are our greatest asset, and we're committed to providing them with the resources they need to be successful. If you're looking for a rewarding career with a company that cares about its employees, then ARBEX is the place for you.​

To Be Considered

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