Job Description:
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
This position plays a strategic role in accelerating APAC Automotive segment growth by leading segment-focused market development, customer opportunity identification, and cross-functional commercial execution. In addition, this role serves as the primary APAC contact for project governance to support regional business growth and drive commercial excellence.
Automotive Segment Leadership (70%)
- Market Intelligence:
- Build a deep understanding of APAC automative value chain, customer needs, competitive landscape, and emerging technology trends.
- Monitor industry developments and identify growth opportunities, and transfer market shifts into actionable growth opportunities.
- Opportunity Development:
- Partner with sales and technical teams to convert customer needs into qualified opportunities and healthy pipeline.
- Lead regular opportunities review and track key projects to accelerate commercial growth.
- Segment Strategy & Execution:
- Act as the key APAC marketing interface for the Automotive segment by leading to the execution of segment strategy and aligning priorities across Sales, R&D, Product Management, and Operations.
- Provide structured innovation/project support for new automotive applications and contribute to the segment 5-year growth plan by defining opportunity spaces, growth levers, and execution priorities.
Functional Responsibility (30%)
- End-to-End Project Management: Define project scope, goals, and deliverables. Lead cross-functional teams (R&D, Sales, Supply Chain, Operations) through the standard stage-gate process from initiation to commercialization.
- Resource & Risk Management: Develop detailed project plans, allocate resources effectively, and proactively identify bottlenecks. Formulate mitigation strategies to ensure on-time and on-budget delivery.
- Stakeholder Communication: Facilitate regular project review meetings, track KPIs, and provide transparent status reports to senior management and key stakeholders.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Technical and/or Marketing degree, with >8 years of professional marketing experience.
- Solid automotive segment experience is required, preferably with exposure to chemical/material solutions, OEM/Tier value chains, EV-related applications, or automotive innovation projects.
- Capacity to translate information into business opportunities & threats
- Good influencing, listening and communications skills, with a proven ability to influence multiple stakeholders in a global arena
- Capability of working with remote teams
- Take ownership & accountability for results
- Solution & result oriented skills with a team player attitude
- Native Mandarin, English fluency, 3rd language as a plus
KEY COMPETENCIES
- Strong and resilient personality
- Trained analyst with broad know-how in market and customer analysis
- Proficient in marketing processes & tools
- Strong excel, PPT and financial analysis skills
- Dealing with ambiguity, influencing
- Ability to distill complex information and convey clear and compelling messages, supporting strategy developments
- Accountability, results orientation
- Continuous learning
- Commercially & financially savvy
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Skills Required
- Technical or Marketing degree
- >8 years professional marketing experience
- Solid automotive segment experience (chemical/material solutions, OEM/Tier value chains, EV applications)
- Experience translating market intelligence into business opportunities and pipeline development
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional, stage-gate project management from initiation to commercialization
- Proficient in marketing processes and tools
- Strong Excel, PowerPoint and financial analysis skills
- Excellent influencing, listening and stakeholder communication skills in a global arena
- Capability of working with remote teams
- Native Mandarin
- English fluency
- Third language
Huntsman Corporation Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Huntsman Corporation and has not been reviewed or approved by Huntsman Corporation.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage (medical/dental/vision) and EAP are consistently described as solid, with multiple plan options cited. Strong health benefits are frequently highlighted as a relative strength in the total package.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a 401(k) with employer contributions and equity through a stock incentive plan, with legacy pension arrangements for some groups. Retirement features are repeatedly referenced as a positive component of total rewards.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off, holidays, and floating days are described as good to very good in many roles. Vacation accrual is said to increase with seniority in some locations.
Huntsman Corporation Insights
What We Do
Huntsman Corporation is a publicly traded global manufacturer and marketer of differentiated and specialty chemicals with 2019 revenues of approximately $7 billion. Our chemical products number in the thousands and are sold worldwide to manufacturers serving a broad and diverse range of consumer and industrial end markets. We operate more than 70 manufacturing, R&D and operations facilities in approximately 30 countries and employ approximately 9,000 associates within our four distinct business divisions. We view our customers as valued partners. That’s why we believe in a collaborative approach to client relations and work directly with our customers to develop new chemical components that meet their unique needs. Our dedication to our customers is matched only by our dedication to the environment. As part of our commitment to bettering the industry, we strive to operate safe, clean, efficient facilities in an environmentally and socially responsible manner. This means actively seeking opportunities to leverage our resources to assist those in need around the world. It’s all part of our growth-driven approach, which reflects the spirit of free enterprise and is centered on creating mutual benefits for customers, employees, suppliers and the communities where we work.
