Leah Mae Lim Email & Phone Number

Sydney, Australia

Quezon City, Philippines

- Orchestrates the New Product Development Team including the R&D, Packaging, Brand Marketing, Consumer Research, and Planning and Supply Chain Departments. Safeguard the milestones and timelines from product inception to launch - Responsible for the NPD Calendar and ensures a good mix of new products for bimonthly launch - Responsible in cascading the project objectives to align all team members at all stages of the project development - Conducts post-launch evaluation on new products including sales achievement vs forecast, product reviews, consumer feedbacks, technical and process improvements - Prepares Product Costing (COGS worksheet) and profitability analysis. Simulates different formula, packaging, manufacturing and overhead costs scenarios and recommends the most strategic pricing and optimum order quantity of materials - Facilitates weekly cross-functional NPD Meetings to check on project progress and adherence to the timelines. Prepares weekly minutes of the meeting and tasks priority in order of importance - Prepares product dossiers or manuals consisting of the unique selling propositions, product positioning and differentiation, ingredient highlights, product benefits and features, frequently asked questions (FAQs) and target market - Prepares, files and compiles product claims justification and substantiation in coordination with the Regulatory Team - Prepares Package Direction Sheet containing the packaging material functional and technical options with desired aesthetics - Prepares and conducts Communications and Design Brief for label and packaging design development - Reviews and routes Product Design Briefs for Innovations, Reformulation and Extensions. Studies and reviews feasibility of product concepts based on forecast, pricing and profitability and formula and packaging execution - Performs competitive benchmarking in terms of product claims, ingredients, packaging, market positioning, price and efficacy

- Lead technical execution of New Product Development and Cost Reduction Initiatives in personal skin care (whitening, exfoliants, anti-aging, and germicidals), baby care, and home care categories - Handled formulation development including product testing, indicative consumer acceptability, efficacy, stability and consumer safety studies - In-charge with the process development from lab batch to the scale-up of production to pilot, plant batch trials and commercial runs - Collaborated with the Packaging Development, Product Testing, Regulatory, and Innovations Marketing teams to ensure that products will be ready to launch at the target date - Prepared documentations including product quality specifications, safety data sheets, product bulletin, manufacturing procedures, raw material quality specifications and regulatory requirements - Prepared Ingredients List for package label development - Presented technical background of SkinWhite and Maxipeel brands to Marketing, Creative and Digital groups in conceptualizing and building print and digital content and TV commercials

- Effectively managed and ensured accurate master data uploading in SAP and NOAH system (Material Master and Bill of Materials Creation and Maintenance). Generated various system reports for interfacing departments through SAP export and MS Excel programs - Successfully lead SRI in the master data automation projects for Foods Division, and ERP system migration of Personal Care Division from SAP to NOAH - Assisted in several ISO documentation of Personal Care products like Packaging Materials Specifications, Filling and Packing Instructions, and Finished Goods Specifications - Facilitated in-house efficacy and safety testing of both Personal Care and Foods Product including Monadic, Triangle and Clinical Testing. Experienced in preparing technical testing reports on product acceptability and safety - Established a detailed Gantt Chart of New Product Innovation timelines in MS Project based on the business processes of Splash Research Institute

- Document Control Administrator for R&D department. Ensured proper distribution of confidential documents and retrieval of obsolete documents. Maintained efficient filing of all documents and records. - Qualified auditor and R&D representative for Supplier Quality Development programs (Total Quality Management). Conducted GMP and process control second party audits, and prepared audit reports of both raw and packaging material suppliers. - Co-represented R&D in SAP implementation activities. Completed end-user training of R&D related SAP modules like MM (Materials Management) and PP (ProductionPlanning). Responsible in several master data generation and verification in time for Nutri-Asia, Inc. SAP Go-Live activities - Managed administrative and logistical functions of R&D including processing of purchase requests, payments, and travel arrangements. - Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) representative and Emergency Response Team (ERT) member