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Partner with regional and global stakeholders to ensure Singapore’s needs are understood and reflected in business planning.\nBuild effective external relationships with customers, wholesalers, trade partners, and relevant industry stakeholders.\nWork closely with commercial excellence teams to strengthen execution, analytics, capability building, and performance discipline.\nWork closely with regional and global marketing teams to strengthen innovation agenda\nSupport crisis management and issues management as required, ensuring timely escalation, clear communication, and effective action.\n Qualifications\nMinimum 12years experience, strong people leadership and coaching capability. \nStrong general management mindset, able to balance growth, margin, brand equity and culture in one coherent plan.\nComfortable with end-to-end accountability and making clear investment trade-offs across brands, channels and customers.\nAbility to create an environment where people can perform at their 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