Ingredion is looking to manage its largest regional business within Texture Solutions while ensuring a cohesive global strategy and optimizing product lines for profitability and growth.
Requirements
- Strong expertise in Product Line Management
- Understanding of starch chemistries and benefits of texturizers in different applications.
- Expert in working with high volume of data and leveraging Power BI and other reporting tools.
- Demonstrated success with Project Management Office or similar assignments.
Responsibilities
- Manage US/CAN product life cycle and optimize SKUs: rationalize without commoditizing, the portfolio. Actively cannibalize non-strategic and lower margin products, putting controls in place to prevent proliferation of new similar SKUs.
- Oversee, guide and set process and guardrails for harmonized global PLM lifecycle analysis.
- Monitor quality and service and work to anticipate and quickly resolve issues. Develop contingency and mitigation plans for key product lines in the event of source disruption.
- Make product allocations at constrained assets with the Product Management Directors and the Global Supply Chain in a way that optimizes global profitability while considering the long-term customer and strategic implications.
- Continuously make recommendations on sourcing optimization and asset utilization maximization to improve global profit and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC).
- Increase profit velocity through key assets to reduce product costs and improve cash flow.
- Develop, embed, and manage PLM process/systems for global variable & fixed cost visibility & volume/price trade-offs decisions to optimize global profitability – to be leveraged by all PLM resources of a global basis.
Other
- Master’s degree in Food Science, Engineering, Supply Chain, or Business. MBA preferred.
- Significant food or chemical industry experience with strong business and financial acumen
- Excellent analytical skills and solid financial acumen.
- Proven ability to build relationships and lead through influence at all levels of the organization.
- Stakeholders’ management, navigating the complexity of a functional/global/regional matrix.
