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County Meath, Ireland

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Led packaging development for global Supplier Partnership Excellence program. Implemented 3-year innovation category growth program. Designed a global project tracker and business need model to showcase vendor capability across pack design, pack format, film coating evolution and sustainability modules. Implemented specification excellence and conversion governance across 100MSQM of major global reclose brands. Delivered cost optimization and pack specification synergy saving programs of $500k-1M per annum.Designed global best practice flexible and rigid packaging toolkits and share-points to develop best-in-class and best practice SME approaches. Team leader for risk mitigation analysis, commissioning, qualification and validation of new supply chain primary and secondary specification transfer projects into India, China, Australia, Thailand, Brazil and Russia.Implemented extensive FAT and SAT risk mitigation pre-acceptance procedures with packaging machine, and sealing unit suppliers to optimize specification runnability. Designed strategic global project road maps to execute fast-track supply chain qualification, process efficiency and engineering investment. $3M productivity achieved from implementation of recommended press conversion process installations.Executed value engineering projects to develop continuous improvement in operation excellence, driving agile thinking and modelling / simulation across supply chain. Executed right-first-time quality implementation. Operated new Pack Defect analysis program to assess plant quality data and apply best-in-class investment transfer. Delivered 99.5% Right-First-Time quality targets as a result. Designed and implemented global plant Product and Packaging Acceptance Standards to ensure Critical to Quality (CTQ) criteria achieved. Introduced new Manufacturing Standard Operational troubleshooting tools to improve down-time efficiency and capture optimized centre-lining recipes.

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Packaging R&D Innovation Key Account for Kraft Foods Europe Plants– Cross Functional Streams.Project leader for co-ordination transfer of 40MSQM key brand confectionery specifications across Kraft Foods European plants.Executed trial programs to meet extensive risk mitigation across multiple specifications and deliver 100% on-time FAT and SAT qualifications.

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Alcan European SME for developing high performance latex and synthetic coldseal technologies. Lead in project development of high-performance water based, solvent free and solvent based adhesive lamination systems for lean cell manufacturingKraft Foods Europe – Cross Category R&D Development Project leader for transfer of major brand reclosable specifications into their European, Russian & Latin American plants.Developed new product growth programs for major global chocolate brands together with option of new reclose coldseal technologies for the Cheese Slice portfolio in Belgium.Instrumental in developing 50MSQM of new chocolate tablet business into the European and Brazilian markets which developed into further expansion of new recloseable platformsWorked with Kerry R&D team to develop new robust centre-lined polyester, polypropylene & peelable polyethylene specifications for meat and cheese portfolios across 3 plants.Integrated study in specification robustness through root cause and corrective action analysis across range of Multivac and VFFS machines.Delivered new business development opportunities with Scandinavian key account team to develop a new business portfolio within their chocolate wrap and candy bag packaging portfolio.New business development through improved range of barrier & non-barrier packaging specifications for VFFS PET, OPP and Polyethylene specifications.Developed 1st fully printed compostable laminate cereal bag into the European market.