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Chandler, Az

Tempe

Directed the exploration of a skin care portfolio for the VEMMA brand. Worked cross functionally with creative, communications, finance, and third party manufacturers to help manage the product development.‒ Identified opportunities in skin care and new trends, including consumer, products, and ingredients.‒ Established partnerships with scientists and R&D labs to develop formula design.‒ Oversaw the product design, packaging, and messaging of the brand.

Managed and led global R&D personal care team in development of new fragrances and new product forms. Spearheaded projects for reformulations for global expansion, formula stability, product safety, manufacturing processes, and cost savings. Defined departmental priorities to reflect company’s focus on R&D department relocation.‒ Coordinated cross-functional activities and timelines, effectively transitioning personal care projects, along with 100 newly developed fragrances, from conception to fully commercialized products.‒ Led reformulation of over 70 products, meeting regulatory requirements for China, Europe, and Japan.‒ Improved margin of firming body emulsion by reducing formula cost by almost 50% while maintaining product’s claim of firming.‒ Reformulated pearlized surfactant shower gel, improving pearl stability and resulting in faster manufacturing cycle time.‒ Coached R&D team to lead development of new fragrances and product forms for $40M holiday program with launch dates in June 2014.‒ Led relocation of personal care team by assisting with all project and product history transfers to marketing and R&D departments.

Managed growth and innovation of personal care category. Developed $30M holiday program. Developed and selected fragrances for exclusive programs for QVC, Nordstrom, and Sephora.‒ Spearheaded philosophy’s fragrance development process by developing over 400 new fragrances through collaborative efforts with fragrance houses.‒ Achieved 92% sell through in 6 months through creation of philosophy’s first limited summer fragrance and ancillaries.‒ Produced ~$200K – $300K in cost savings by leading stability testing for surfactant replacement project.‒ Expanded personal care portfolio by leading formulation development of whipped body crème, dry body oil, hot pour lip scrub, candle, and exfoliating body scrub.‒ Established core supplier list by pioneering philosophy’s first template for fragrance briefs to fragrance houses for all new skin care and personal care projects.

Phoenix, Az

Managed timelines for all R&D team projects. Worked cross-functionally amongst different departments, third party manufacturers (TPM), and fragrance houses. Guided all communication on R&D and TPM formulations and stage gates between R&D team, new product development, planning, and quality.‒ Established R&D’s first project tracker for all new development and reformulation projects, improving chemist accountability and limiting product launch delays.‒ Led over 150 projects per year, ensuring achievement of formula timelines for approval, pilots, safety testing, preservative efficacy testing, and any OTC testing, if needed.

Philosophy

Oversaw pilot batches and processing directives in production facility, including formulation processes.‒ Increased knowledge of formulations and helped expand innovation of personal care category by formulating additional ancillaries, such as tinted lip care products, hair care products, bath products, skin care products, and fragrance products.‒ Worked with customer service, reformulating skin care formulas and fragrances meeting consumer demands.‒ Developed and formulated skin care product line with emulsions, serums, and bath products, basing ingredients on new trends, including soy, olive oil, and green tea.‒ Built 80% of personal care business by performing as R&D project lead on all development of fragrances and formulas for philosophy’s holiday offering.‒ Reformulated skin care products to paraben-free preservative systems and modified fragrances, removing phthalates.

Phoenix, Arizona

Researched raw materials for formulations in skin care and personal care products. Created and maintained philosophy’s first fragrance library. Prepared lab batches, monitored formulations on stability, and reported any stability issues. Submitted formulations for all safety testing, preservative efficacy testing, and ocular testing.‒ Enhanced foaming and cleansing product properties by co-developing improved foaming shower gel base for 3-in-1 shampoo, shower gel, and bath formulations.‒ Tripled philosophy’s food flavored shower gel portfolio by utilizing fragrance library.‒ Researched and tested several suppliers of sodium laureth sulfate, resulting in improved performance of philosophy’s shower gel base in clarity and fragrance performance.