About the role
Shape the Texture Solutions portfolio across Asia-Pacific. As Manager, Product Line Management, you will own all Texture Solutions Food products made on Ingredion's global assets and sold in APAC. You will decide which products we make, where we make them and how we allocate them, and those decisions directly move APAC and global profitability, ROIC, cost-to-serve and cash flow.
You will join Ingredion's global PLM and Product Portfolio team, which supports our goal of being the customer-preferred supplier of texturizing and healthful solutions across affordability, premiumization and clean label. The role has no direct reports. It carries high visibility, works across the global matrix, and suits someone who leads through influence and data.
What you will do
Portfolio and SKU optimization: Manage the product life cycle for your product lines. Rationalize the portfolio without commoditizing it, exit non-strategic and lower-margin SKUs, and control the growth of new SKUs.
Allocation at constrained assets: Work with Product Leaders and Global Supply Chain to allocate product at constrained assets in a way that maximizes global profitability.
Source changes and manufacturing transfers: Lead end-to-end source changes and manufacturing transfers that affect APAC, covering supply continuity, product qualification, customer transition and commercialization.
Sourcing and asset optimization: Recommend sourcing and asset-utilization changes that improve global profit and ROIC, increase profit velocity through key assets, reduce product cost and improve cash flow.
Quality, service and supply resilience: Monitor quality and service performance, and build contingency and mitigation plans for key product lines in case of source disruption.
Competitive intelligence: Maintain intelligence on competitor operations, capabilities, cost benchmarks and go-to-market approaches.
Capital planning: Feed into the capital planning process so that growth is not limited by supply.
Who you will work with
Internal: Director, Global Product Portfolio; Product Leaders; Global Supply Chain; global and regional PLM peers; APAC Commercial and Sales; Technical Services and R&D; Quality; Plant Operations; Finance.
External: Key customers during source changes and product transitions.
What you bring
Must-have requirements
Bachelor's degree in Food Science, Engineering, Supply Chain or Business.
Significant experience in the food or chemical industry, with strong business and financial acumen.
Proven expertise in Product Line Management.
A track record of success in Project Management Office (PMO) work or similar assignments.
Understanding of starch chemistries and how texturizers perform across different applications.
Fluent written and spoken English.
Nice-to-have
Hands-on experience leading a source change or manufacturing transfer end to end.
Advanced use of Power BI or other reporting tools, and comfort working with large volumes of data.
SAP experience and a project management certification such as PMP.
Additional languages used in APAC markets.
How you work
Strong analytical skills and solid financial judgment.
Builds relationships and leads through influence at every level of a functional, global and regional matrix.
Communicates and presents clearly to senior and cross-functional audiences.
Focuses on results, moves with urgency and is curious enough to find the root cause of a problem.
Takes the lead and collaborates readily.
Working arrangements
Hybrid working, based in Thailand.
Normal business hours. Because this is a global team, some calls will fall outside Thailand hours to overlap with Americas and EMEA colleagues.
Some regional travel to plants and key APAC markets is expected.
Candidates from across the region are welcome to apply, and relocation support within APAC is available.
Why join us
A global-visibility role in which your portfolio, allocation and sourcing decisions have a measurable effect on profit, ROIC and cash…