AMEA Consumer Science Lead

Position: AMEA Consumer Science Lead

Reporting to: Global Consumer Science Head

Location: Vietnam or Singapore

80% Remote working and 10-20% of travel expected

Opella is the self-care challenger with the purest and third-largest portfolio in the Over-The-Counter (OTC) & Vitamins, Minerals & Supplements (VMS) market globally.  

Our mission is to bring health in people’s hands by making self-care as simple as it should be. For half a billion consumers worldwide – and counting.

At the core of this mission is our 100 loved brands, our 11,000-strong global team, our 13 best-in-class manufacturing sites and 4 specialized science and innovation development centers. Headquartered in France, Opella is the proud maker of many of the world’s most loved brands, including Allegra, Buscopan, Doliprane, Dulcolax, Enterogermina, Essentiale and Mucosolvan.

As a globally certified B Corp company, we are active players in the journey towards healthier people and planet. Find out more about our mission at www.opella.com.

Our Team:

Come help us explore the world of selfcare through the consumers eyes. You will inspire our developers, packaging team and designers to re-evaluate assumptions of our diverse portfolios and pipelines through new lenses. You will be responsible for leading Consumer/ Product research activities in the AMEA region to discover what consumers want and what motivates them about several diverse topics within selfcare and will work closely with R&D, Marketing, Market Research. You will help create a stronger consumer centric culture globally.

Main responsibilities:

Lead, develop and recommend state of the art consumer/ product research that help inspire product development, packaging and design teams.

Lead the technical evaluation of selected priority products versus competition, including and contribute to the selection and development of products and translate differences into various consumer facing communications/ visualizations, etc.

Identify and lead best research methodology to inform key development and business decisions.

Help multifunctional teams clarify business objectives to ensure we are getting the most out of the proposed research but more importantly, answering the best questions for our categories.

Update, maintain, and add new external vendors to help support growth & vision within the territories.

Lead multifunctional teams in challenging and helping to refine product/ platform objectives

Build strong relationships with a collaborative, creative, passionate, smart team to challenge the status quo

Dig deep and further develop your leadership and creative abilities to drive change in an organization that is thirsty to become the top of all our categories while maintaining our core values of courage, teamwork, respect and integrity.

Work closely with the whole team to build the best consumer experiences.

Globally elevate culture change in improving consumer centricity via identification of maximum value/ low-cost options to drive consumer centricity earlier on and ensure touchpoints made throughout critical times in the innovation process. Work closely with the teams to execute the most impactful strategies to gain feedback earlier in the process, validate prototype direction in advance of finalization, and recommend enhancements at end of process to maximize new product/ tech value. Would lead global implementation of the new process in advising the other Consumer Science regional leaders of how to execute with largest impact in their regions.

Identify technical trends coming out/ identified globally in self-care benefit areas and/or adjacencies, and recommend and update to innovation leads.

List here ideally the must-haves criteria to be successful on the role. Don’t forget: the less criteria you will request, the more diverse candidates you will get in the pool.

BSE, MS, or PhD or relevant Academic qualification in science field

Proven leadership expertise in leading cross functional teams

Proven track record of leading research for the development of market validated, consumer loved products

10+ years Products Research experience ideally with a leading FMCG, Healthcare company or partner agency that works closely with FMCG companies to deliver their Product Research goals

Must be willing to travel to sites to oversee testing (if required).

Why us?

At Opella, you will enjoy doing challenging, purposeful work, empowered to develop consumer brands with passion and creativity. This is your chance to grow new skills and be part of a bold, collaborative, and inclusive culture where people can thrive and be at their best every day.

We Are Challengers.

We are dedicated to making self-care as simple as it should be. That starts with our culture. We are challengers by nature, and this is how we do things:

All In Together: We keep each other honest and have each other's backs.

Courageous: We break boundaries and take thoughtful risks with creativity.

Outcome-Obsessed: We are personally accountable, driving sustainable impact and results with integrity.

Radically Simple: We strive to make things simple for us and simple for consumers, as it should be.

Join us on our mission. Health. In your hands.

www.opella.com/en/careers