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FukuSingapore, Singapore
GM, SEA, Consumer Goods Mandarin Required
GM, SEA, Consumer Goods (Mandarin Required)
Location: Singapore
- Coverage: Southeast Asia
- Industry: Consumer Electronics / Consumer Goods / E-Commerce
- Company Overview - Our client is a high-growth global consumer technology company, recognized as the #1 player globally in its category.
- - The company has a rapidly expanding presence across North America, Europe, and Asia.
- - Initially a successful consumer product business, it has evolved into a broader consumer technology ecosystem, spanning hardware, software, mobile applications, and data-enabled products and services.
- - The company operates a connected portfolio of smart consumer devices, digital experiences, and data-driven solutions, fostering deep consumer relationships beyond traditional consumer goods.
- - Growth has been driven by product innovation, consumer-centric design, technology, brand building, and sophisticated e-commerce execution.
- - Southeast Asia has been identified as a major strategic growth market.
- - The company is appointing a General Manager, Southeast Asia, reporting directly to the Founder & CEO, to accelerate regional market share and build the next chapter of its business in SEA.
Role Overview
- - The General Manager, Southeast Asia, will be the most senior business leader in the region, with full ownership of the SEA P&L and end-to-end accountability for growth, profitability, market share, and organisational development.
- - This is a genuine General Management mandate, not limited to selling physical products but also commercializing an integrated ecosystem of hardware, software, apps, and data.
- - The GM will determine strategic priorities across countries, consumer segments, categories, products, and channels, and localize the company’s global ecosystem for the SEA market.
- - The mandate is to translate global category leadership into regional market leadership, leveraging significant headroom for growth in SEA.
Key Responsibilities
- - Take full ownership of the Southeast Asia P&L, including revenue, profitability, investment allocation, and overall business performance.
- - Develop and execute a multi-year SEA growth strategy to materially increase regional market share.
- - Translate global category leadership into a stronger and more defensible position in Southeast Asia.
- - Determine country, category, consumer, and channel priorities across the region.
- - Build regional strategy around the company’s expanding hardware, software, mobile application, and data ecosystem.
- - Identify opportunities to deepen consumer engagement and lifetime value through integration of physical products and digital experiences.
- - Define appropriate go-to-market models by market, including D2C, marketplaces, distributors, modern trade, specialty retail, and other offline channels.
- - Drive growth across major e-commerce ecosystems and marketplaces, while developing omnichannel capabilities.
- - Own senior commercial relationships with major marketplaces, retailers, distributors, and strategic partners in SEA.
- - Lead regional brand, consumer, and category strategy, ensuring global brand equity translates into locally relevant propositions.
- - Identify opportunities for new product launches, category expansion, and localization based on consumer insights, market data, and competitive dynamics.
- - Leverage consumer and commercial data to improve customer acquisition, engagement, retention, cross-selling, and lifetime value.
- - Partner closely with global product, technology, marketing, supply chain, finance, and operations teams to ensure SEA priorities are reflected in the global strategy.
- - Build and lead a high-performing Southeast Asia organization to support the next phase of regional growth.
- - Serve as the voice of Southeast Asia to the Founder & CEO and global leadership team, influencing product, investment, and market priorities.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- - Commercially exceptional consumer leader with structured training from a world-class organization and entrepreneurial instincts to build and scale a high-growth business.
- - Approximately 8–12+ years of experience in consumer goods, FMCG, consumer electronics, consumer technology, e-commerce, or adjacent consumer-facing industries.
- - Candidates with foundational commercial and leadership experience in leading FMCG organizations (e.g., P&G, Unilever) or blue-chip consumer companies are highly relevant, especially those who have progressed to Country GM, Business Unit Head, Commercial Director, E-Commerce Director, or equivalent roles.
- - Leaders from consumer electronics and technology companies with experience at the intersection of product, brand, retail, e-commerce, and digital ecosystems are also suitable.
- - Senior leaders from major e-commerce platforms and marketplaces with strong exposure to consumer brands, category management, commercial strategy, and regional growth will be considered.
- - Demonstrable experience owning a country, regional, or business-unit P&L, or equivalent end-to-end commercial accountability.
- - Proven track record of gaining market share, building categories, entering new markets, or scaling a consumer business.
- - Strong understanding of the Southeast Asian consumer landscape, ideally with multi-market experience in the region.
- - Experience across e-commerce, marketplaces, distributors, and offline retail is highly advantageous.
- - Strong consumer and brand instincts, combined with rigorous commercial and analytical capabilities.
- - Experience with connected products, digital platforms, applications, subscriptions, consumer data, or broader technology ecosystems is advantageous but not mandatory.
- - Ability to move fluidly between CEO-level strategy and hands-on market execution.
- - Entrepreneurial, intellectually curious, and comfortable operating in a fast-moving international organization.
- - Fluency in Mandarin is required due to frequent communication and collaboration with key stakeholders at the company’s global HQ.
Opportunity Highlights
- - This is not a traditional regional GM role managing an established consumer-goods operation.
- - Opportunity to take ownership of Southeast Asia for the global #1 player in its category as the company evolves into a broader technology-enabled ecosystem.
- - Direct reporting access to the Founder & CEO.
- - Full ownership of the Southeast Asia P&L.
- - Mandate to materially grow SEA market share.
- - Significant autonomy over market, channel, and investment strategy.
- - Opportunity to shape how a hardware + software + app + data ecosystem is brought to market in SEA.
- - Ability to build the regional organization and leadership team.
- - Platform and resources of an established global category leader.
- - Entrepreneurial scope in a business with substantial growth potential.
- - Ideal for leaders from top consumer, technology, or e-commerce organizations seeking greater ownership, speed, and strategic influence.
- *Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted due to the volume of applicants.