Product Developer Adult Care

Ontex is a leading international provider of disposable personal hygiene solutions for all generations. With a global team of around 7,500 employees, we develop, produce and distribute in about 100 countries through leading retailers and healthcare providers. Ontex was founded in Belgium in 1979 and is listed on Euronext Brussels.

To reinforce our R&D team we are looking for a Product Developer Adult Care.

Mission and Key Tasks

Main responsibilities and key tasks

Adultcare focused

Leads the technical stream of multiple product development or customer specific product development projects in Adult care in different regions

Responsible to create and communicate the project planning and maintains it in masterplan tool

Responsible to defend capex and opex for project and follows up

Supports the head of product development in technical feasibility studies of new requests (cost, capex, timing, resources in-outside R&D) enabling creation of business case for project approval

Delivers timely specific projects from the region product initiative masterplan

Delivers timely specific projects from the customer product initiative plan

In the project responsible to avoid any third party infringement by very close interaction with legal functions

Delivers fully documented product / raw mat specification for each new project

Present on a regular base project status and future plans in internal meetings, as well as for external partners, and key customers

Support other functions by providing expert knowledge short-term, e.g. related to quality problems, customer requests - meetings, or operational issues

Guarantees the project executions are done according to the right processes

Background and Experience

Job requirements

Educational:

Master or university diploma degree in natural science, or engineering
Broad scientific and technical scope. Good knowledge in statistics
Additional knowledge of Six Sigma would be an asset
Excellent English (oral + written) is mandatory
Experience:
Minimum of 3 years in R&D
Minimum of 3 years in hygiene, nonwoven or related business.
Minimum of 3 years of experience in a multi-cultural, international environment
Solid knowledge about all types of disposable absorbent products, raw materials, and production processes

Competencies:

Excellent analytical and organizational skills
Self-dependent and scientific way of working
Strong decision-making ability
Both visionary and results oriented
Strong communication skills. Very good presentation skills