Experience

Beauty Pie

• United Kingdom
• Retail
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Technical Manager

  • Oct 2021 - Present

  Lead on Technical formulation guidance and due diligence for Cosmetic, Supplement and Devices. Lead compliance review with outsouced regulatory and test house partners Support SRM as technical contact with contactural manufacturers Manage and Building strategical indirect technical and compliance partners Help to maintain and onboarding new manufcurers in compliance and technical capability fields Lead on Technical formulation guidance and due diligence for Cosmetic, Supplement and Devices. Lead compliance review with outsouced regulatory and test house partners Support SRM as technical contact with contactural manufacturers Manage and Building strategical indirect technical and compliance partners Help to maintain and onboarding new manufcurers in compliance and technical capability fields



Reckitt

• United Kingdom
• Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior R&D Associate - Front End Innovation & External Partnership

  • Jul 2017 - Oct 2021

  • Taking leadership, ownership & by managing a team with experienced scientists from different background to deliver sexual well-being, feminine wellness/intimate care, and personal care formulation ranging across different regulation landscapes i.e. Cosmetic, Medical Device, US Monograph. • Owned & led foot care E2E innovation pipeline based on Outside In approach within global health platform, i.e. ODM/OEM projects from supplier scouting to product launch. • Owned & led competitor intelligence & technology scouting activities • Managing communication with key stakeholders both internal & external (i.e. Senior leadership team, Marketing, third party supplier/contract R&D sites, other sister global R&D centers/teams, universities, sourcing & supply etc.). • Work within multifunctional team to initiate, align, design and deliver new projects that can meet both consumer needs and business needs. • Inspire and motive team to maintain peak performance, developing on personal growth target, and provide relevant training/coaching to the wider team. Show less



PepsiCo

• United States
• Food and Beverage Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• R&D Platform Manager

  • Apr 2016 - Apr 2017

  • Taking leadership, ownership by managing a team with experienced scientists from different background to deliver pellet snack platform’s formulation design work. • Owned & led healthy snack & portfolio transformation pillars within global pellet platform. • Owned & led competitor intelligence group for global pellet platform. • Drive & led the team on innovation and prototyping in key technology areas and supporting company’s IP strategy agenda. • Managing communication with key stakeholders both internal & external (i.e. Senior leadership team, other sister global R&D centers/teams, third party supplier/contract R&D sites, universities, regional, sourcing & supply etc.). • Work within multifunctional team to initiate, design and deliver new project initiatives that can meet both consumer needs and business needs. • Inspire and motive team to maintain peak performance, developing on personal growth target, and provide relevant training/coaching to the wider team. Show less



Boots UK

• United Kingdom
• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Sun Care Formulation Manager

  • Jun 2014 - Apr 2016

  • Taking leadership, ownership & by managing a team with experienced scientists from different background to deliver sun care product (Soltan) & UV protection category (No.7 daily skin care with SPF factor) formulation design work. • Managing communication with key stakeholders both internal & external (i.e. Senior leadership team, Finance, Marketing, NPD delivery team, third party supplier/contract R&D sites, universities, marketing, sourcing & supply etc.). • Work within multifunctional team to initiate, design and deliver new project initiatives that can meet both consumer needs and business needs. • Taking leadership & ownership on setting up capability improvement plans, which can enable better team capability & assist future project work. i.e. setting up competitive benchmark & competitive intelligence team, portfolio transformation enables simplification on formula generation & maintenance etc. • Inspire and motive team to maintain peak performance, and also carefully connecting with each team member to develop their personal develop plan. Always proactively seeking out appropriate training, exposure, learning opportunities to ensure healthy team and individual development for win-win on team goal and personal goals. Show less



Procter & Gamble

• United States
• Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Researcher

  • Sep 2007 - Jun 2014

  • Design and deliver new global lifeblood initiative that can meet both consumer needs and business needs. These include identifying and planning technical study with various technology leads, work closely with process team to check feasibility of new formulations in key production countries. • Formulation design SPOC & owner of LA plants production on daily basis. • Making recommendation and decision on any upcoming formulation related technical problems, and dealing with potential competitive responses. (i.e. material shortage, initiative launching, critical cost saving etc.). • Owned and led competitor intelligence team program in emerging markets • Work in partnership with marketing and/or consumer insight team on plan and carrying out consumer studies. • Identifying and suggesting improvement areas on products or development processes, take leadership on the proposed improvement plan and lead small team to execute the project from lab based scale to pilot scale, and then support scale up to production. Show less