Assistant R&d Manager

No Relocation Assistance Offered - Del.Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico City, Mexico**Who We Are**Colgate-Palmolive Company is a caring, innovative growth company that is reimagining a healthier future for all people, their pets and our planet. Focused on Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care and Pet Nutrition, we sell our products in more than 200 countries and territories under brands such as Colgate, Palmolive, elmex, hello, meridol, Sorriso, Tom’s of Maine, EltaMD, Filorga, Irish Spring, PCA SKIN, Protex, Sanex, Softsoap, Speed Stick, Ajax, Axion, Fabuloso, Soupline and Suavitel, as well as Hill’s Pet Nutrition.We are recognized for our leadership and innovation in promoting sustainability and community wellbeing, including our achievements in decreasing plastic waste and promoting recyclability, saving water, conserving natural resources and improving children’s oral health.If you want to work for a company that lives by their values, then give your career a reason to smile and join our global team**_Job Summary_**- **Develop and drive an innovation pipeline for Hair & Scalp Care that addresses people needs, business opportunities across different types of consumers and across key regions.**- ** Identify and develop new technical leads based on technological and consumer insight, and drive the research team.**- ** Build a strong internal and external cross functional network (i.e. fragrance technology, regulatory, marketing, quality, implementation & support, supply chain, technology procurement, consumer & technology insights, suppliers, research institutes).**- ** Serve as a key interface among local and global partners such as Quality, Regulatory, Environmental Affairs, Occupational Health and Safety (EOHS), Legal, Supply Chain and Implementation & Support.**- ** Ensure the development and continuous flow of invention records, patents, and research reports to support Colgate-Palmolive intellectual property.**- ** Master the Hair & Scalp care state of the art by leading patent/journal landscape, and possess a strong knowledge of competitors across key regions. In addition, the leader of Product Development must engage her/his team in market/patent/journal landscape initiatives and supplier’s development with the aim to elevate the expertise within the subcategory.****_Responsibilities_**- **Manage and develop the Global Product Development team.**- ** Deliver assigned projects supporting products, processes, methods, and services.**- ** Lead and drive the enhancement of subcategory fundamentals**- ** Develop and help to execute the experimental development plan to deliver new and/or improved product bundles.**- ** Communicate learning from development work via research reports, patents, presentations to internal and external business partners and senior management.**- ** Ensure assigned Quality and Environmental Affairs and Occupational Health and Safety actions and responsibilities are properly addressed and completed; investigate potential safety problems early in the research process.**- ** Ensure personnel under his/her responsibility support and comply with Quality requirements, initiatives and systems; monitor progress on implementation of systems and actions; regularly supervise, coach, guide and train personnel under his/her responsibility on Quality requirements and systems.**- ** Ensure accurate documentation such as notebooks, necessary Standard Operating Procedures (SOP's), claims dossiers are maintained to support Global Regulatory registration and audits.**- ** Ensure successful transfer of the leads to respective Implementation & Support teams.**- ** Collaborate with the patent department to understand the current patent situation so proprietary rights and intellectual property can be protected, and to define areas where we can improve.**- ** Design products that address the challenges of shipping across global borders/divisions by staying abreast of latest regulatory/legal directives.**- ** Oversee team's collaboration with other functions, including Safety, Process Development & Innovation, Packaging Development, Micro, Analytical, Statistics, Technology Insights, Regulatory and other groups as needed.**- ** Close collaboration with Implementation & Support to provide support for ensuring the highest marketed product quality**- ** Actively participate on cross-functional task forces.**- ** Monitor competitive activity and consumer trends.**- ** Participate in “on the ground” consumer observational studies.**- ** Represent a Product Development view in interaction with other business partners.**- ** Assign and effectively delegate work.**- ** Champion new initiatives that bring meaningful innovation for people.**- ** Brainstorm new ways of doing things.**- ** Lead by example and demand safe behaviors and awareness, sound environmental practices and commitment to quality.**- ** Develop assigned personnel and direct reports through coa