Our client is a well-known European cosmetic ingredient company.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES：
Sourcing Strategy & Supplier Management:
Plan manage the companys overall sourcing strategy to secure stable supply mitigate supply chain risks.
New Product Sourcing & Technology Scouting
Build maintain a pipeline of new ingredient technology candidates matched to the SETHIC portfolio, from internal production team external sources, with Chinese overseas factories.
Track technology development in the Chinese ingredient market
Make first contact with new suppliers qualify them on technology, capability, documentation commercial fit.
Turn trade shows, supplier visits technical seminars a shortlist of candidates worth developing, not a catalogue of options.
Project Qualification & Gate Management
Run each candidate through the qualification sequence: NDA, technical regulatory documentation, samples, laboratory stability testing.
Stop weak projects early. Decide to continue drop before stability testing, escalate only candidates with a defensible market case.
Prepare the positioning review fthe GM Marketing: application, claim potential, target segment, competing alternatives, indicative cost.
Hover validated projects to R&D, the NPD Specialist Testing with a complete file, then follow through to launch.
Cross-functional & International Coordination.
KEY REQUIREMENTS：
Communication, first criterion: excellent writtenal communication in English Chinese. Writing with suppliers must be clear, structured logically argued. Assessed by a written case exercise during selection.
Project leadership: proven ability to lead cross-functional projects to completion without hierarchical authority over the contributors.
Organization detail: highlyganized, systematic, detail-oriented. Most project risk sits in small details.
Experience: 8 to 10 years in product management, technical sales, technical marketing, sourcing NPD in the cosmetic personal care ingredient industry. Supplier distributside experience is an advantage.
Market judgment: practical commercial exposure to the cosmetic actives market, sufficient to judge whether a technology is worth developing. Weighted above formal scientific credentials.
Technical understanding: able to read technical regulatory documentation, follow a stability efficacy testing programme, hold a technical discussion with suppliers R&D at product manager level.
Business sense: able to open hold commercial discussions with suppliers on important issues, to assess product market potential.
Education: Bacheldegree above. Science background in biology, chemistry, pharmacy food science is preferred, not mandatory where market project experience are strong.
Work with cross-functional teams (R&D, Quality & Regulatory, Marketing, Supply Chain, Sales) to ensure speed to market from project initiation to product launch.
Coordinate Marketing, R&D, Quality & Regulatory, Supply Chain Sales, solve the technical details that block progress to closure.
Contract & Performance Management
Initiate, negotiate, finalize contract terms with key vendors, ensuring compliance with local legal requirements.
Maintain contract documentation evaluate supplier performance against agreed terms to ensure efficient execution of contract conditions.
Partner with the General Manager in negotiating stable cost-effective supply agreements.
KEY COMPETENCIES：
Integrity: in supplier relationships in internal reporting.
Logical scientific thinking: structured reasoning, genuine curiosity, appetite to keep learning a fast-moving field.
Cultural agility: works effectively with Chinese, Japanese European partners.
Notice:
具有十年以上化妆品原料领域的采购经验或新品开发经验，熟悉与供应商和经销商打交道经验，对化妆品原料市场有深刻的认知与了解，较强的沟通协调能力与注重工作细节，英语口语流利，能够作为工作沟通交流语言。
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