This individual is recognized as the subject matter expert who understands the business and corporate strategy and helps to ensure the strategy/plan meets or exceeds the local and international compliance requirements for product labelling in their region.
Key responsibilities:
Strategy
- Drive the development of label solutions, with goal toward standardization, sustainability, and cost effectiveness to reduce the number and complexity of E&I labels.
- Propose label strategy and serve as advisor for new labels and major label modifications.
- Create and own a governance process for evaluating label change requests, which evaluates complexity vs. value of requests.
- Run-the-Business Tactical Support
- Communicate SAP label changes and share best practices across Business Units and Central support as required.
- Review and disseminate regulatory requirements for finished product labeling projects.
- Manage and prioritize SAP labeling enhancements as they arise from business users.
- Serve as the primary E&I business contact with corporate label management IT resources.
- Understand data sources for the label template to support label updates.
- Answer questions from the business on label format such as font size, layout, language, etc.
- Create relationships with Labeling Key Users.
- Act as Label Key User for 3rd Party Warehouses.
Continuous Improvement
- Validate labeling capabilities as they apply to customer requests and changes to business (new product introduction, product changes, logo updates etc.).
- Assist in Artwork and Branding changes at Business Unit and Enterprise levels.
- Participate in integration testing/regression testing.
- Support, or as time allows serve as Project Manager, for label projects including the management of label development, testing, and implementation.
Critical Success Factors for a Global Label Specialist include:
- Quickly comprehends new and complex requirements and understands the importance of sustainable solutions. Makes connections between related projects, tools, and processes.
- Accurately frames the risks and impacts of various solutions and able to communicate them clearly to leadership with a recommendation based on informed assessment.
- Manages multiple initiatives and prioritizes appropriately, consulting leadership as needed.
- Facilitates team discussions and leads problem solving efforts.
- Demonstrates effective interpersonal skills and ability to network across all functions and geographies.
- Team player: Desire to help others succeed.
- Self-starter: Follows through on commitments.
- Strategic thinker
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in related technical field.
- Chemical industry experience preferred.
- Minimum 5 years of hands-on business or operational expertise in an SAP environment. For example, SAP EHS/ GLM+.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in both local language and English language.
- Computer proficiency, Office 365, PowerPoint/Word/Excel, Microsoft Teams, etc.
- Artwork expertise Adobe Illustrator & PDF Writer e.g.
- Must be able to work flexible working hours.
Key Experiences:
- Worked with diverse team members and business partners in different geographical locations.
- Good working knowledge of manufacturing business operations.
- Experience working in a customer-focused, market-facing business environment.
- Experience with labeling requirements and systems.
- Performed problem solving support work.
- Worked on multiple projects simultaneously.
- Able to foster interpersonal relationships broadly.
- Strong facilitation skills.
- Good judgment and sound analytical capability.
- Willingness to own and drive issues and projects.
- Ability to define, integrate, and deliver solutions from ambiguous starting point.
