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Product Development Specialist

Location: Tokyo, Tokyo JP

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Job Number: 349

External Description:

Responsibilities include

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  • Supporting identification and collection of competitive technical product information 
  • Providing market-specific claims, merchandising information, and Distributor selling points,  demos, and practices for current generation benchmark products. 
  • Partnering with peers in global R&D to identify local, externally-sourced  

products/technologies 

  • Supporting in-market sample screening and product optimization research  
  • In collaboration with corporate R&D, facilitating review of global claims plan with affiliate  marketing and developing market-specific claims testing plan 
  • Supporting global claims substantiation planning and testing 
  • Facilitating communication of technical information from global team to affiliate marketing • Facilitating review of technical information in market to help develop Marketing Assets • Answering technical and claims questions with support from global R&D resources • Reviewing and providing feedback on FAQ documents 
  • Conducting product education sessions in market where appropriate with presentation  material and training from global R&D resources 

JOB SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS  

  • SPG Activities as necessary by market (Durables)  
  • Other duties as assigned  

 

Education

 

Biology, Chemistry, Biochemistry,  Pharmacology, Molecular Biology  or related scientific discipline 

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Required Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and/or Related Experience: 

 

  • Strong background in Nutrition area 
  • Chemical composition, structure and properties of substances and transformations they undergo  toward the optimization of product engineering, development or formulation 
  • Research/experimental methods including data analysis 
  • Product development processes, principles and practices including the critical design and  development phases of a project from development through delivery 
  • Project Management principles including planning, organizing, monitoring and controlling  technical activities; Identification, assessment & mitigation of risk 
  • Effectively communicating and presenting technical data (both verbally and written) to influence  multiple audiences in English and relevant market language. 
  • Applying scientific research principles and practices, experimental design and execution,  interpreting and evaluating research findings 
  • Processing, documenting and providing timely information with a high level of accuracy in a usable  format 
  • Evaluating propositions or hypotheses and making judgments on the basis of well-supported  evidence 
  • Use of related analytical or scientific software, databases and applications to include use of  typical office suite software packages 

• Additional market requirements as needed (eg: regulatory knowledg

Job Number: 349

Community / Marketing Title: Product Development Specialist

Location_formattedLocationLong: Tokyo, Tokyo JP