APAC Marketing Manager – Skin & Home

Ash (China) Holding Co.

APAC Marketing Manager Skin & Home

Are you the kind of person that is always thinking, sketching, seeking, and adjusting? Who needs to understand how things work and then figure out how they can work better? Are you a passionate, tenacious, solver who loves to work with others who share your drive? Are you positive, constructive, and ingenious?

Are you always solving?

Then we’d like to meet you and bet you’d like to meet us.

Ashland has an exciting opportunity for a APAC Marketing Manager – Skin & Home to join our Personal Care business. This position will be based in Shanghai, China location. This is a very visible, significant role within the Company and commercial function. This position will report to the APAC General Manager, Personal Care.

The responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Growing the skin and home business in a sustainable & profitable way (YOY, sustainable gross profit growth)
• Leading all skin and home initiatives & supporting the selling process as required
• Pricing and delivery of skin and home price/margin targets
• Analyzing & understanding the skin and home market to:
  • Best position Ashland vs the competition
  • Align products & marketing activities with the key trends & regional needs
  • Identify unmet market & key customer needs
  • Identify product line extension and M&A opportunities
• Developing a robust portfolio of innovation projects for the region
  • Ensuring new product launch targets/goals are met
• Marketing intelligence
  • Market supply and demand, competitor sales & marketing activities, competitor profiling
  • Communicate with global counterpart and support decisions based on the competitive information, etc.
• Define and implement effective Marcom plans for the Asia skin and home business, including trade shows, promotion programs, branding etc.
• Provide direction to a team of regional marketers to cover skin and home.
• Partner with R&D to drive product innovation and ensure appropriate portfolio coherence.
• Partner with teams in Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Regulatory to ensure operational excellence of portfolio.
• Partner with Commercial Sales in Asia Pacific to maximize sales & profitability.
• Establish and maintain strong relationships with major customers.
• Position will be expected to actively engage the organization and travel locally, regionally as required to support the organization, collaborate with internal partners, and serve customers.

In order to be qualified for this role, you must possess the following:

• BS degree, major in Chemicals or sales and marketing. An advanced degree, preferably an MBA, is preferred.
• 10+ years experiences in the skin and home market or other personal care markets/industries. Minimum of 5 years industry experience in marketing, preferably in MNCs.
• Relevant knowledge of excipients, ingredients, and related materials

The following skill sets are preferred by the business unit: