.No Relocation Assistance Offered 140702 - Del.Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico City, Mexico**DEPARTMENT'S TOP 3 OBJECTIVES**- Design and create the technology platform and pipeline, formula Funding the Growth and simplification strategies, and new products focused on delighting the consumer, taking a consumer or professional insight or a technology lead and leveraging it in support of the category strategies.- Define the technical strategy for selected areas including formula-driven improved delivery and efficacy, next-generation ingredients, and new product forms and sensory signals, increasing the number of patents and intellectual property, delivering added value for the company.- Serve as the critical linkage to the rest of the Global Technology organization for each category, and provides the central category voices to our global and division business partners - Global Marketing, Division Innovation and Marketing, and Global Supply Chain.**CORE RESPONSIBILITIES**- Identify and develop new technical leads based on technological and consumer insight, and drive the research team.- Ensure the development and continuous flow of invention records, patents, and research reports.- Manage resources of his/her assigned team according to department priorities.- Serve as a key interface among business partners such as Quality, Regulatory, Environmental Affairs,- Occupational Health and Safety (EOHS), Legal, Supply Chain and Implementation & Support.**LEADERSHIP/SUPERVISION**- Assign and effectively delegate work.- Champion new initiatives.- Brainstorm new ways of doing things.- Lead by example and demand safe behaviors and awareness, sound environmental practices and commitment to quality.- Develop assigned personnel and direct reports through coaching, feedback, training opportunities, etc.**DAY-TO-DAY RESPONSIBILITIES**- Deliver assigned projects supporting products, processes, methods, and services.- Develop and execute the experimental development plan to deliver new and/or improved product bundles.- Communicate learning from development work via research reports, patents, presentations to internal and external business partners and senior management.- Ensure assigned Quality and Environmental Affairs and Occupational Health and Safety actions and responsibilities are properly addressed and completed; investigate potential safety problems early in the research process.- Ensure personnel under his/her responsibility support and comply with Quality requirements, initiatives and systems; monitor progress on implementation of systems and actions; regularly supervise, coach, guide and train personnel under his/her responsibility on Quality requirements and systems.- Ensure accurate documentation such as notebooks, necessary Standard Operating Procedures (SOP's), claims dossiers, and bundle books are maintained to support Global Regulatory registration and audits.- Ensure successful transfer of the leads to respective Implementation & Support teams
