Personal Care GA Innovation and Long-term Capacity Planning Lead

Function: BU Supply Chain
Reports to: Head of Supply Chain – Personal Care Greater Asia
Scope: Regional
Location: Vietnam
Terms & Conditions: Full time

JOB PURPOSE
Driving innovation deployment and strategic capacity planning across the Business Unit markets in Greater Asia, ensuring alignment with Business Group (BG) guardrails and integrated customer operations. The role balances innovation execution, technology enablement, and long-term planning to secure sustainable growth.
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WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE
1. Innovation Deployment

• Lead the timely roll-out of new innovations within the BU, ensuring compliance with BG guardrails and strategic priorities.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Supply Chain, Marketing, R&D) to deliver innovations on time and in full (QOTIF).
• Define optimum sourcing networks to meet cost and timing targets for innovation launches.
• Collaborate with procurement to develop key RPM supplier to serve innovations, in terms of capability and capacity.
• Develop first production and transition plans, ensuring capacity readiness and stock build targets at sourcing sites.
• Monitor post-launch performance and resolve supply or quality issues within the first 3 months of deployment.

2. Strategic Capacity Planning

• Own the long-term capacity planning process (+24 months horizon) for Finished Goods across sourcing units.
• Translate category growth assumptions into volume forecasts and capacity requirements.
• Drive investment decisions for capacity expansion, balancing trade-offs between scenarios and ensuring alignment with strategic priorities.
• Lead scenario planning and validate outputs of strategic planning processes, making informed trade-offs between cost, service, and risk.
• Sourcing network optimization: Study current network of sourcing for GA portfolio and export, propose and lead projects to enhance sourcing network to improve all criteria in cost, cash and service and landing innovations.
• Resiliency: build resiliency plan for sourcing all markets of GA, in synchronization with global sourcing strategy and region’s business priority.
• Simplification: Lead the analysis and proposal for ATS – Above the Skin simplification, work with markets to ensure the implementation of simplification programs.
• Lead VSM: value stream mapping for PC GA manufacturing sites whichever applicable, deliver optimization for GA PC.

3. Integrated Planning Guardrails:

• Link strategic planning outputs to customer operations, setting guardrails for integrated planning across demand, supply, and innovation streams.
• Ensure transparency and alignment of assumptions across short-, mid-, and long-term horizons.
• Collaborate with Integrated Planning teams to manage innovation and renovation projects spanning multiple countries.

4. Collaborative Manufacturing:

• Manage relationships and performance of collaborative manufacturing partners providing products to Personal Care GA.
• Ensure compliance with quality, service, and cost standards while integrating partner capacity into long-term planning.
• Drive capability building and technology transfer to external partners for innovation launches and capacity expansions.
• Monitor contractual agreements and KPIs for collaborative manufacturing to secure supply continuity and operational excellence.
• Align and implement CM network optimization with BG CM team, make sure change management without impact to GA business.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED

Experiences & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in: Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Business Administration, or related field.
• Master’s degree or MBA preferred for strategic planning and leadership roles.
• 8–12 years of experience in Supply Chain, Innovation Planning, or Capacity Management within FMCG or similar industries.
• Proven track record in deploying innovations, technology solutions, and strategic planning across multiple markets.
• Experience in scenario planning, trade-off analysis, and investment decision-making for long-term capacity.
• Familiarity with integrated planning processes, collaborative manufacturing, and customer operations alignment.

Skills:

• Proficiency in advanced planning systems (e.g., SAP APO, IBP) and digital supply chain tools.
• Strong analytical skills with ability to interpret complex data and model scenarios.
• Knowledge of CAPEX planning, manufacturing technologies, and network optimization.
• Knowledge in global trade practices and policies.
• Leadership:
• Strategic Planning: Ability to shape long-term supply chain strategies and secure alignment with senior leadership.
• Change Management: Skilled in driving organizational change, embedding new processes, and managing stakeholder resistance effectively.
• Executive Communication: Strong ability to present complex scenarios and trade-offs to senior leaders, enabling informed decision-making.
• Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement: Excellent relationship-building skills across global and regional teams, including external partners.
• Agility & Resilience: Ability to lead cross-functional projects and drive alignment under ambiguity and dynamic market conditions.

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Compensation and benefits Clause (if any): local package
Work location: Vietnam
Hybrid
Office-based role

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