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:

• Leadership- oversee, direct & lead the skin and home business in your assigned area.
• Ownership- taking the assigned responsibilities & owning the result.
• Collaboration / working in teams- ability to influence the entire regional team to achieve the desired results.
• Speaking up when things are not right/need to be changed- this should be done with all team members including Regional and Global Management with no fear of retribution.
• Creativity & Innovation- thinking and imagining our business differently to drive innovation / new ways of doing things.
• Relationship building- with key industry contacts, customers, peers & superiors.
• Ability to analyze data & information and develop conclusions and actions.
• Presentation skills- both oral & written.
• Command skills- ability to make a tough decision when the group cannot reach a consensus.
• Coachability/approachability- willing to take direct performance feedback (good or bad) and use it to personally improve.

In more than 100 countries, the people of Ashland LLC. (NYSE: ASH) provide the specialty chemicals, technologies and insights to help customers create new and improved products for today and sustainable solutions for tomorrow. Our chemistry is at work every day in a wide variety of markets and applications, including architectural coatings, automotive, construction, energy, personal care and pharmaceutical. Visit www.ashland.com to see the innovations we offer.
 
At Ashland our vision is to be a leading, global specialty chemicals company whose inspired and engaged employees add value to all we touch. In fact our people, employees, customers and vendors define who we are. They are the driving force behind everything we do.
 
Not only do we value our customers but we value our employees, and we work to offer them a dynamic and challenging environment. We hold ourselves to high standards at Ashland, and we value integrity and honesty.
 
Ashland has a history of attracting the best people and keeping them. The reasons are simple: industry competitive salary and benefits, pay-for-performance incentive plans and a diverse work environment where employees feel challenged and valued. People come to Ashland and stay. As a growing Fortune 500 specialty chemicals company, we offer opportunities for development and advancement throughout our global organization. Our values define who we are and what we care about as a company. If you are looking for a relationship with a company instead of simply a job, this may be a great fit.

Ashland is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation. 

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. NOTE:  We do not accept resumes from external staffing agencies or independent recruiters for any of our openings unless we have a signed recruiting agreement in place to fill a specific position.