THE POSITION

Responsible for the overall operations excellence in an assigned manufacturing organization. A people manager who establishes functional business plans and technical project objectives to meet the short- and long- term goals of the organization. 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Responsible for supervising, coordinating, training and scheduling the Tool Room repair personnel during the maintenance and repair of tools and dies. Oversee the daily activities of the repair department in order to minimize down time and support production.
• Essential Responsibilities:
  • strategize and drive business site-wide tool building process, quality expectations for tool (internal or external buy-off), production quality expectations and tool maintenance expectations
  • plan, action, expected outcome and timeline to bring business tools in-line with strategy expectations  
  • strategize for buy versus build capacity and guidelines
  • strategize a tool design team that will
    • interact with Sales Operations, Manufacturing Operations and customer for global
    • interact with outsource tool builders
    • Tooling buy-off and qualifying process
  • Oversee daily tooling support for production; plans die repairs/preventive maintenance.
  • Lead team actives in meeting production objectives.
  • Manages the tooling budget to purchase expenditures.
  • Supervise, train and instruct Tool & Die Repairs in safety, maintenance, and quality methods & procedures and capabilities of machines and equipment.
  • Review, release, track, coordinate and close work orders.
  • Attend die design reviews related to engineering program changes.
  • Implement engineering changes.
  • Support Quality with improving and maintaining tools and dies.
  • Ensure tooling specifications after each pm, die repair, engineering change.
  • Teach/Mentor tooling team on die functions and troubleshooting techniques.
  • Track downtime to identify projects.
  • Consult with the General Manager relative to modification of machines and equipment in order to improve production & quality of products.
  • Participate in the selection, development, training and discipline of Tool & Die Repairs.
  • Perform performance appraisals with the assistance of the General Manager and Human Resources, making recommendations on promotions or other changes in status of employees you are directly responsible for.
  • Responsible to maintain compliance with organizational policies, and safety standards.
  • Maintain tool room equipment, and keep the tool room clean, safe, and in order.
  • Maintain safety standards of workplace.
  • Wear all personal protective equipment as required.
• Develops strategies, drive LEAN Culture, and specific programs in order to achieve business objectives.
• Support and/or production departments in various manufacturing or product development support departments.
• Support and provide ideas/proposal of best practices to a dedicated team of key manufacturing personnel.
• Cultivates a culture of continuous improvement through analyzing production/ manufacturing methods and processes.
• Improves product/ process quality, performance, production and profitability. 
• To drive OEE, Kaizen and topics related to FPS initiatives (according but not limited to FPS GB training materials provided)

EXPECTATIONS OF THE ROLE

• Support and monitoring of all day to day operations with strong focus on quality and cost.
• Supervise, guide, coach and develop a management/FPS team mainly including Manufacturing, Quality Control & Engineering.
• Promote concept, train and improve initiatives to other related department such as Human Resources, Production Control, IT, Finance, Purchasing & etc.
• Supporting GM or management team to Measure and drive continuous improvement.
• Constantly find ways to increase productivity by better work methods and process automation. Product and process quality.
• Weekly report on the facility’s improvement initiatives and results.
• Overseeing the activities of the entity and alignment with The Client’s corporate culture, processes and adherence to The Client’s standards of business conduct.

Education and Experience:

• Over 14 years tooling experience with over 5 year’s supervisory experience in tooling in an injection molding facility or equivalent automotive manufacturing background.
• Certification in any Tool Making education background or equivalent is a plus.
• Experience in TS requirements.

Job Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of injection molding. Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
• Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications is a plus. Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services.
• Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
• Good computer skills to work with CAD/CAM technology, CNC machine tools, and computerized measuring machines.
• Ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
• Ability to work well independently.
• Able to travel maximum up to 80% and to China.
• Work location in Kuala Lumpur or Penang.

The Client has identified that Data Driven Technologies will be a key differentiator for the company. To execute this initiative, The Client needs to (a) be able to identify, combine, and manage multiple sources of data. (b) Develop capability to build advanced-analytics models for predicting and optimizing outcomes (c) transform the organization using the data, predictions and models to yield better decisions and results.

To support this initiative, The Client has identified a partner who will work exclusively with them to develop their data driven solutions. They are looking for the lead for Data Driven Technologies (DDT) initiative and the job can be compartmentalized into

Data Management

• Creating and enforcing policies for effective data collection and management
• Work with management to prioritize business and information needs
• Working with internal The Client stakeholders and DDT partner in;
  • identifying and connecting the most important data (primary or secondary data sources) for use in analytics and then mounting a clean-up operation to synchronize and merge overlapping data and to work around missing information
  • formulate solutions for automated data collection with emphasize on accuracy, integrity and timeliness of data
  • maintain databases/data systems
• Working with DDT partner, undertake development of API for automatic access to various systems, extracting the data then parsing of structured and unstructured data and storage into The Client’s cloud based data warehouses.
• Working with DDT partner, develop and implementing efficient and secure procedures for data handling - cloud data storage, security, management and access
• Establish rules and procedures for data sharing across The Client and external stakeholders (e.g. HRMS, CRMS, etc.)
• Working with internal DDT partner, Setup rules Support others in the daily use of data systems and ensure adherence to legal and company standards.

Data Analytics, trends and surfacing opportunities allowing strategic decisions based on data analysis and interpretation. The goal being higher effectiveness and efficiency towards better serving The Client’s internal and external customers.

• Collaborate with The Client’s DDT partner development teams to extract from data warehouses for pre-processing of structured and unstructured data
• Work with management to prioritize business and information needs
• Present information and dashboards using data visualization techniques
• Analyse The Client’s data and combined with qualitative information to discover trends and patterns
• Build predictive models and machine-learning algorithms with The Client specific ensemble modelling for predictive business performance
• Use the findings to high light gaps, opportunities and trends.
• Locate and define new process improvement opportunities

Role:

• Work with The Client’s leadership team, lead the effort in defining a clear vision of the desired business impact of the Data Driven Technologies initiative and then lead the effort to shape an integrated approach to data sourcing (API, import, storage and management), model building, and suggest organizational transformation.
• Identify, assess and provide insights then working with the external DDT team to solve complex business problems, involving analysis of situations, in-depth evaluation of variable factors, knowledge of the business segment and economic outlook.
• Present to the President and senior leadership team of possible performance improvements and competitive advantage arising from analytics models that will allow the leadership to understand the predicted outcomes., identifying business opportunities to determine how the model can improve performance.
• Cultural change agent to overcome any mismatch between The Client’s existing culture and capabilities with the emerging tactics required to exploit Data Driven Technologies and analytics successfully.

Requirements:

• Independent, self-driven and highly ambitious
• Attention to details with strong analytical skills
• Knowledge of technical finance and financial concepts,
• Capable to develop industry-specific knowledge
• Strong presentation skills, able to articulate analyses well and propose ideas
• Excellent strategic thinking, problem-solving skills and good business sense
• A proven track record in driving and achieving results.
• Have 5 years of professional experience in roles that involved business evaluation, competitive benchmarking or financial/business case modelling; and one that involve developing reports for or actual strategy development and execution
• Having an MBA will be an added advantage.
• Ability to write and speak fluently in English. Additional competency in other languages such as Mandarin will be an added advantage
• Flexible, able to work in dynamic environment and across cultures
• Able to work on Penang island

Interested in the role? Please apply online. Selected candidates would have an initial zoom video discussion before presenting your resume to the Client.

Interesting opportunity for a personable Laser Photonics individual who is interested to use your technical expertise to develop, evaluate and improve manufacturing methods and processes for the purpose of sustaining the manufacture of existing Laser products as well as the introduction of new products.

Role:

• Provide day-to-day technical support for the production line including cleanroom, sub-assembly, optical build, and laser final test areas
• Maintain the quality, reliability, and cycle time standards of the current laser build process
• Continuously improve current production methods using knowledge of product design, materials and parts, fabrication processes, tooling, production equipment capabilities, quality control standards, and warranty metrics
• Take responsibility for Manufacturing Execution System (MES), assembly and process methods, and bills of materials
• Work with quality, reliability, and supply chain teams to improve product performance
• Implement corrective actions for problems reported by our customers
• Works on complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical and Electronics Engineering with minimum 3 to 5 years of experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Knowledge in laser photonics is highly desired.
• Possess technical expertise pertaining to Manufacturing, Assembly & Test Processes for mechanical assemblies, Printed Circuit Board Assembly (PCBA) and optical components
• Strong problem-solving skills and knowledge in Six Sigma DMAIC approach, Lean principles, DOE, SPC, FMEA, GR&R and other quality improvement tools.
• Opportunities to participate in company-wide projects to improve productivity and automation of work processes
• Ability to communicate and present well

The Client

The Client is a global integrated solutions company focusing on the Analytical, Aerospace, Automotive, Medical, Industrial and Semiconductor segments. They offer integrated design, prototyping, new product introduction, manufacturing and supply chain solutions to our valued customers.

They believe that the success of the company and the leadership role of the Client in the industry are critically dependent on its quality of leadership, technology know-how, operational competency and employee motivation.

Purpose of the Role:

• Overall responsible for representing the Client to the customers and the customers to the Client in all business-related activities.
• Actively execute key quality strategic sales related programs/projects within the assigned area of responsibility. These are activities that supports the business objectives aligning back to the Client goals.

Responsibilities:

• Provide sales support and lead generation in selling and marketing of the Client, systems and services to end-user customers in assigned geographic location, territory, industry or accounts.
• Execute and perform tactical implementation that aligns to the company strategies
• Understand customers’ expectations in quality and compliance to customer or international standards. Working with the operations team to ensure products at manufacturing will meet or exceed the customers‘ requirements
• Adhere and practice, follow and maintain the company’s internal system, according to the ISO and TS standards.
• Senior Sales member would have team management responsibilities and manage the directions of junior sales team members.
• Senior Sales member would report to the Regional Sales Director, located in Kuala Lumpur.

Expectations of the Role:

• Identify potential opportunities
• Understand and breakdown the customers’ requirements
• Work towards supporting the required needs as an individual contributor or working closely with appropriate team members
• Lead and arbitrate projects that require coordination with other functions and organizations.
• Anticipate and identify customer needs:
  • investigate underlying causes
  • identify short term or long-term solutions
  • create and lead business development plans
• Initiate, innovate and lead development, implementation of strategy development for complex accounts, which is the key of technical contribution.
• Participate and arbitrate problem-solving between customers and operations.
• Adopt pro-active approach in analyzing various situations and potential issues in relation to sales activities, sales forecast, order and deliveries, problem-solving, and where necessary, to initiate escalation to the management.
• Provide regular sales KPI update/report to Regional Sales Director.

Requirements for this Role

• Degree or Diploma in related field plus a minimum of 3 years relevant experience for Junior Sales. Senior Sales person is required to have a minimum of 10 years of sales experience in relevant industries with team management experience.
• Work experience is related to plastic manufacturing process or equivalent such as plastic resins, injection molding or plastic manufacturing related industries.
• Demonstrate ability to work with various teams of different levels, and build effective working relationships are a must.
• Self-driven possessing good accountability, a go-getter with results-driven approach of winning mindset
• Good interpersonal and customer service skills.
• Proficient in English, written and spoken. Those with Mandarin speaking and writing skills would be additional plus points.
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office; Excel, Word, Power point.

Interested in this employment opportunity? Please apply online! I’ll organise a zoom video discussion if your resume is found suitable for the role before your resume is presented to the Client.

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Business Development Manager for Healthcare industry

Location: Malaysia

Exciting opportunity for a self-starter and highly driven sales/business development professional with track record experience working within the pharmaceutical/healthcare industry in Malaysia, to join a dynamic and fast growing start-up digital solution company with office presence across 7 countries and a network of more than 150,000 medical professionals engaged on their platform.

Role:

• Develop sale strategies and budgets in line with the Company KPI’s. Self-starter to eventually building a team and running operations in Malaysia.
• Work closely with pharmaceutical companies and stakeholders in medical fraternity – KOLs, Medical Associations, Hospitals, to identify potential business opportunities, and ensure acquisition targets are achieved.
• Devise and Implement approved promotional plans to achieve the set objectives.
• Oversee financial function of the business and ensure that controls are in place to enhance accountability and alignment with business strategies.
• Drive on-going portfolio analysis that result in optimization of resource allocation and return on investment.
• Coordinates with third party operations to ensure alignment with business goals and objectives.
• Competition mapping and information sharing with management team.

Requirements:

• Degree in Pharmacy or Scientific-related with an Masters advantageous
• Possess work experience in the Healthcare Industry for 10 years or more with a proven track record in sales/business development, and strong leadership experience
• Deep understanding of how healthcare and pharmaceutical sector works in Malaysia
• Well networked with C levels in the pharmaceutical industry and KOLs
• Proven track record in developing and delivering complex programs and projects with positive, measurable results.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Excellent organization skills with strong interpersonal and intrapersonal skills.
• A high level of attention to detail.
• The ability to prioritize and handle multi-tasks in tight deadlines.

Interested in the employment opportunity, please apply online. If your work experience is relevant to the role, a zoom video discussion would be organised with the consultant, prior to presenting your resume to the client.

Exciting opportunity for a self-starter and highly driven Solution Engagement Manager professional with track record experience working within the pharmaceutical/healthcare industry in Singapore and across SEA to join a dynamic and fast growing start-up digital solution company with office presence over 7 countries and a network of more than 150,000 medical professionals engaged on their platform.

Role:

• Accompany sales and marketing teams in meetings with pharmaceutical companies to understand various pharma offerings and requirements.
  • Foster strong relationships with pharmaceutical MSL experts, in order too:
  • Position the Company and its offerings within pharmaceutical companies.
• Thoroughly understand pharma offerings/ requirements and provide solution linking them with Company offerings.
• Analyse clinical trends and practices being discussed. Relate these with pharmaceutical requirements and position the Company’s solution accordingly.
• Host advisory boards to understand trends, in order to improve product offerings.
• Consult with product developers and medical professionals, in order to build a robust and future ready platform.
• Monitor scientific literature for new developments and provide inputs for content development.

Requirements:

• A degree in advanced scientific or medical training and academic credentials is required.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a pharmaceutical or healthcare industry.
• Proven track record with a multinational pharmaceutical company as a MSL is a must.
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills.
• Results-oriented, motivated, self-starter.
• Coaching mentality and a good communicator with strong speaking & writing abilities.
• Collegial, open and grounded in integrity.
• Desire to work with a truly dynamic and exciting team, with a “roll-up your sleeves” approach.
• Strong desire to excel and be committed to gaining exposure to the healthcare industry while further developing your career.

Exciting opportunity for a self-starter and highly driven Solution Engagement Manager professional with track record experience working within the pharmaceutical/healthcare industry in Singapore and across SEA to join a dynamic and fast growing start-up digital solution company with office presence over 7 countries and a network of more than 150,000 medical professionals engaged on their platform.

Role:

• Accompany sales and marketing teams in meetings with pharmaceutical companies to understand various pharma offerings and requirements.
  • Foster strong relationships with pharmaceutical MSL experts, in order too:
  • Position the Company and its offerings within pharmaceutical companies.
• Thoroughly understand pharma offerings/ requirements and provide solution linking them with Company offerings.
• Analyse clinical trends and practices being discussed. Relate these with pharmaceutical requirements and position the Company’s solution accordingly.
• Host advisory boards to understand trends, in order to improve product offerings.
• Consult with product developers and medical professionals, in order to build a robust and future ready platform.
• Monitor scientific literature for new developments and provide inputs for content development.

Requirements:

• A degree in advanced scientific or medical training and academic credentials is required.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a pharmaceutical or healthcare industry.
• Proven track record with a multinational pharmaceutical company as a MSL is a must.
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills.
• Results-oriented, motivated, self-starter.
• Coaching mentality and a good communicator with strong speaking & writing abilities.
• Collegial, open and grounded in integrity.
• Desire to work with a truly dynamic and exciting team, with a “roll-up your sleeves” approach.
• Strong desire to excel and be committed to gaining exposure to the healthcare industry while further developing your career.

Exciting opportunity for a business development professional with a track record in the biopharmaceutical/pharmaceutical industry to join a young and aggressively growing biotechnology company

Role

• Reporting to a BD Director, you will work closely with marketing, R&D and operation teams to drive revenue and achieve customer satisfaction
• Build and maintain professional network with external companies and KOLs in biopharma industry, and follow up whenever deemed necessary to create, manage, and close business opportunities
• Understand the customers’ research application and match services and products to align with their research project requirements.
• Attend conferences to collect market/ competitive intelligence, brand and build relevant business networks
• Use CRM to manage and document communication with customers

Requirements

• PhD or Masters degree in life sciences discipline or equivalent
• MBA or advanced business-related degree a plus
  At least 2 years of relevant experience in business development or related experience and an established network in the biopharmaceutical industry
• Possess good business acumen, customer focus and self-driven
• Ability to work in an international and multicultural environment
• Self-motivated to succeed, proven ability to work well with teams
• Clear oral and written communication skills in English
• Operates with a sense of urgency to follow-up, availability, and responsiveness to internal and external partners.
• Good organizational and time management skills

OVERALL PURPOSE OF JOB

To support the Group CFO to drive value through the enterprise encompassing but not limited to the following:

• To provide the leadership in the group’s initiative on process, control and system improvements
• Be part of the core team to enhance the business performance framework by providing the analytical support for decision making and act as a catalyst to drive value through the enterprise.
• To improve the operational reporting framework that can pre-empt problems for fast corrective actions to be initiated
• To develop value analytics as framework to drive organic growth
• To help manage solvency risk by enhancing the treasury function
• Strengthen tax matters of the company

Responsibilities:

• Provide the analytics support to divisional heads and be the catalyst of change to enhance productivity and process improvement
• Strengthen the financial and reporting framework to ensure reliability and timeliness information for decision making and corrective action
• Treasury includes:
  • Identify net profit earned to net increase in cash gap and initiate actions for gap closure solutions
  • Evolve a framework to optimize working capital, particularly inventory profiling and management
• To be part of team to risk manage taxation in way that will mitigate adverse impact of tax audit findings and to optimize governmental fiscal incentives
• Involve in driving cost control from financial perspective by:
  • Introduce near real time informatics so as to highlight overruns for corrective actions.
  • Ensure that departmental costs are within budget and there is a budgetary control mechanism.
• Improve internal control of key business processes.
• Can initiate and use digital technology to drive value through the organization

Requirements:

• Professionally qualified or a good degree in accountancy with 10 years of experience in a management role
• A good number of years in professional audit firm is advantageous
• Good interpersonal skill
• Positive attitude and approach in problem management
• Self-starter and can work independently with little supervision
• Demonstrated good work track record
• IT savvy, analytical and creative
• A balance and fair personality, with impact communication ability

*the role will be office-based on Penang Island

Exciting opportunity for a self-starter and highly driven Solution Engagement Manager professional with track record experience working within the pharmaceutical/healthcare industry in Singapore and across SEA to join a dynamic and fast growing start-up digital solution company with office presence over 7 countries and a network of more than 150,000 medical professionals engaged on their platform.

Role:

• Accompany sales and marketing teams in meetings with pharmaceutical companies to understand various pharma offerings and requirements.
  • Foster strong relationships with pharmaceutical MSL experts, in order too:
  • Position the Company and its offerings within pharmaceutical companies.
• Thoroughly understand pharma offerings/ requirements and provide solution linking them with Company offerings.
• Analyse clinical trends and practices being discussed. Relate these with pharmaceutical requirements and position the Company’s solution accordingly.
• Host advisory boards to understand trends, in order to improve product offerings.
• Consult with product developers and medical professionals, in order to build a robust and future ready platform.
• Monitor scientific literature for new developments and provide inputs for content development.

Requirements:

• A degree in advanced scientific or medical training and academic credentials is required.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a pharmaceutical or healthcare industry.
• Proven track record with a multinational pharmaceutical company as a MSL is a must.
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills.
• Results-oriented, motivated, self-starter.
• Coaching mentality and a good communicator with strong speaking & writing abilities.
• Collegial, open and grounded in integrity.
• Desire to work with a truly dynamic and exciting team, with a “roll-up your sleeves” approach.
• Strong desire to excel and be committed to gaining exposure to the healthcare industry while further developing your career.