Senior Product Developer

Position’s Mission 

We offer you an exciting product development role for our Wella Hair Color and Care brands in Asia. The purpose of this R&D role is salon & retail consumer value creation via bringing superior products to market and supporting existing market products with new technical claims / concepts in the Asia region.  

Essential Functions:  

• Identify unmet needs of our customers/consumers and on methodologies for gaining such data, and translating those data into technical product performance measures actionable by Formulators 

• Design technical testing/experiment for performance assessment of prototypes/in-market products. 

• Generation of compelling claims and demonstrations by leveraging knowledge of the technology behind our products and technical test methods 

•  Excellence in project delivery and communication in a multifunctional multi-geographic team.  

Key Roles & Responsibilities 

• Design and execute consumer studies to generate product insights, which you will translate into technical success criteria for product innovation. 

• Define new product propositions, in collaboration with multifunctional teams (both technical and marketing teams) that will delight target consumers. 

• Design and test prototypes, interpret data, communicate results and make recommendations. 

• Qualify product performance in lab as well as in internal and external salons. 

• Develop robust claims substantiation strategy for new products. 

• Design technical tests to support claims and product communication in market. 

• Create compelling and consumer relevant product scientific communication. 

• Create demos to showcase product benefits to non-scientific community, building the reason to believe in the product efficacy. 

• Support registration, notifications, freedom to practice and other relevant clearances to allow product launch. 

• Build and maintain productive partnerships with the technology team based in Darmstadt and Singapore, and the commercial teams in Tokyo and Geneva. 

Successful capabilities and competencies for the position: 

• Minimum Bachelor Degree of Science.  

• Technical experience in FMCG or similar field is a plus. 

• Languages: fluent in Japanese, business proficient in English 

• Curiosity and empathy to transfer consumer and stylist insights into new product ideas. 

• Desire to penetrate science deeply and support claims with robust science approaches. 

• High levels of personal ownership in developing and testing new ideas. 

• In touch with beauty and hair trends. 

• Able to work in a fast-paced environment and with different cultures. 

• Strong interpersonal communication and presentation skills (in English) for verbal and written communication of ideas, technical rationales, risks, issues and recommendations, within multi-functional teams. 

• Additional language skills in Chinese will be a plus.