Job Responsibilities

• Assess different health needs to provide professional nutrition advice and product-related recommendation. Develop nutrition-related educational materials as needed
• New product planning:

- Ideation: generate, develop, curate and prioritise ideas.

- Organise and define requirements based on market data and customer insights.

- Analyse industrial trends and do technology assessment.

- Evaluate scientific information to generate concepts for new product innovations; define

product features.

- Define product competitive positioning and unique selling proposition (USP).

- Prepare and execute new product development (NPD) plan, ensuring processes occur

within the necessary timeframes to deliver a product to market.

- Align cross-functional Scrum team through Agile methodology.

• New product development (NPD):

- Source for contract manufacturers and liaise with engineers/ formulators to develop new

product; be the main contact point with these suppliers for NPD/ formulation

discussions.

- Review formulas and ingredient/ design statements for new product that is compliant

with regulations.

- Conduct or work with contract manufacturer for efficacy assessment, literature review,

product trial and testing.

- Work with contract manufacturers for safety assessment and stability study of products.

- Define critical attributes of final products, work with Quality team to finalise product

master specifications and list of required lab tests.

- Work with Regulatory Affairs to finalise label text of products and with designer for

packaging design.

- Technical resource for Regulatory Affairs, including providing technical document such

as formula, raw material COA, efficacy, stability and safety information.

- Research market prices, create accurate product costing data and propose product

pricing.

- Present new product for management’s review.

• New product introduction:

- Technical resource for Marketing, including providing technical brief or info sheet of

product.

- Conduct product training as part of professional education to regional trainer/ marketing

team and key leaders of salesforce.

• Post-launch product management:

- Reassess industry movement and re-evaluate competitor actions.

- Analyse product performance, profit and loss, and identify actions required.

- Manage incremental improvement for existing products.

- Liaise with contract manufacturers for necessary formula-related matters.

- React to necessary corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) raised by Quality.

• Contribute for and implement standard procedures (in compliance with industrial standards and QMS requirements) for any product development and management activities or as assigned.
• Perform other duties and projects as necessary to meet company goals.

Requirements:

• Good Science Honours Degree in Nutrition or relevant fields. Certified nutritionist a plus.
• Preferably with experience in product development/ management in the nutraceutical/
• dietary supplement industry.
• Self-starter, good at working well independently with initiatives.
• Meticulous & detail-oriented.
• Product/ project management skills; planning & time management skills.
• Analytical & problem-solving skills.
• Professional communication & negotiation skills; proficient in English and Chinese.
• Strong interpersonal skills to connect with people from different cultures and levels, both internally and externally.
• Travelling is expected.