Senior R&D leader responsible for R&D strategy development, R&D operations excellency, technical framework and innovation ecosystem, wiring between global groups and region teams.• Develop innovation roadmap in line with strategic business plan to enable business growth. • Lead R&D strategic activities, including AOP, 5-yr strategic plan, APAC innovation roadmap.• Successfully led key programs, including Innovation Ecosystem development & implementation (led external innovation… Show more Senior R&D leader responsible for R&D strategy development, R&D operations excellency, technical framework and innovation ecosystem, wiring between global groups and region teams.• Develop innovation roadmap in line with strategic business plan to enable business growth. • Lead R&D strategic activities, including AOP, 5-yr strategic plan, APAC innovation roadmap.• Successfully led key programs, including Innovation Ecosystem development & implementation (led external innovation activities with 10+ members) and East Innovation Strategy & kick off.• Develop consumer-centric innovation pipeline enabled by local consumer insights and enabling consumer-relevant product claims. Led 4 technology-driven innovation workshops in 2021.• Lead Innovation Excellence agenda in Foods and Bev business, including business and R&D scorecard review, resource & portfolio management and rolling out global programs.• Successfully led E2E Innovation Process & Model development, e.g. C2B innovation • Lead key systems for APAC R&D via application of critical thinking to identify simplifications in processes to reduce duplication, drive speed to market, pioneer entrepreneur culture• Work with global groups to synergize innovation portfolio & priorities, bring local insights and best practice to global programs. • Systematic innovation synergies & redundancies to ensure resources are effectively focused on the biggest ideas, maximize “lift & adapt” opportunities.• Lead the technical teams (formulations, packaging, quality) for complex projects through the Stage Gate process including definition of scope, project goals, and success criteria. Show less

Led innovation agenda for Nutrition category, enabling company’s growth and underpinning disruptive innovation model. Managed innovation pipelines and successfully led cross-functional team launching 30+ innovations in 2016 – 2019, tripled category portfolio. • Being the focal point as category’s commercialization lead, driving category innovation algorithm & pipeline, highlighting gaps, managing portfolio risk and resource trade-offs.• Designed/led new innovation model to accelerate… Show more Led innovation agenda for Nutrition category, enabling company’s growth and underpinning disruptive innovation model. Managed innovation pipelines and successfully led cross-functional team launching 30+ innovations in 2016 – 2019, tripled category portfolio. • Being the focal point as category’s commercialization lead, driving category innovation algorithm & pipeline, highlighting gaps, managing portfolio risk and resource trade-offs.• Designed/led new innovation model to accelerate company's disruptive innovation with speed. Championed the new model from top throughout company's operating functions (MKT, Insights, Legal, R&D, Sourcing, Ops and Sales), embraced at working team level.• The entirely new innovation model has been used to guide 4 breakthrough innovations to completion in 6 – 9 months in 2016, accelerated innovation speed to market by 70%. • NPD launched by the new model with minimized investment via OEMs, contributed over 80% category business growth. The new model and its NPD won several global awards.• Led 30+ innovation project launches, by managing core team of 20+ members from R&D (PD/PKG/QA), Ops (Procurement/OEM/Engineering) and Categories team (MKT/Insights)• Marketing experience by launching organic product to preimmunize nutrition portfolio. • Rolled-out & embed best in class innovation portfolio management, agile innovation process & NPD project taskforce structure and Role & Responsibility. • Consolidating project readiness to senior leadership team to drive go/no-go decisions. • Energizing team via personal leadership, influence and drive results On Time In Full. Show less

Responsible for leading new portfolio in functional coatings for foods packaging. Provided scientific expertise with customer understanding to lead novel product development. Translated business insights to technical criteria for NPD. Led projects through cooperated activities within R&D, marketing and suppler chain. Successfully developed edge-cutting coating portfolio with barrier function for environment-friendly foods packaging.• Led portfolio development and built innovation pipeline… Show more Responsible for leading new portfolio in functional coatings for foods packaging. Provided scientific expertise with customer understanding to lead novel product development. Translated business insights to technical criteria for NPD. Led projects through cooperated activities within R&D, marketing and suppler chain. Successfully developed edge-cutting coating portfolio with barrier function for environment-friendly foods packaging.• Led portfolio development and built innovation pipeline to sustain company’s growth.• Led multi short & long-term projects to fulfil existing and potential new market needs, therefore enable company’s business growth agenda.• Successfully developed new technologies and path forward to breakthrough products through own initiative and experimentation.• Identify new technology, emerging trends to develop new products for foods packaging. • Benchmarked the technology vs. competitors to position the company as best in class. Show less

Working with world leading experts in materials science, I was responsible for managing multi-disciplinary projects of developing new technology in Civil Engineering, via collaboration with 9 international companies and UK authority. The innovatively developed technique was known to be the first in the UK and the world. My strong technical and communication skills drove the project, from the initial idea to industrial application.• Led technology development to solve a long term technical… Show more Working with world leading experts in materials science, I was responsible for managing multi-disciplinary projects of developing new technology in Civil Engineering, via collaboration with 9 international companies and UK authority. The innovatively developed technique was known to be the first in the UK and the world. My strong technical and communication skills drove the project, from the initial idea to industrial application.• Led technology development to solve a long term technical challenge in Civil Engineering. Interpreted and solved key issues of moisture-damage on road surfaces.• Provided technical solutions to meet customer’s application requirements. • Led collaboration with industrial partners, e.g. AkzoNobel and Shell Bitumen. Show less