Mark Bowes Email & Phone Number

Camberley, Gb

Reigate, England, United Kingdom

Spearheaded delivery of an initiatives portfolio for Kotex and Depend brands, ensuring achievement of material sustainability goals by reducing virgin plastic consumption and strengthening recycle circularity opportunities and assuring quality. Determined and assessed cost-saving areas.Selective Achievements:• Headed successful execution of many initiatives on timelines varying from >12 months through to only 6 months.• Led the initiative delivery implementation for flexibles and… Show more Spearheaded delivery of an initiatives portfolio for Kotex and Depend brands, ensuring achievement of material sustainability goals by reducing virgin plastic consumption and strengthening recycle circularity opportunities and assuring quality. Determined and assessed cost-saving areas.Selective Achievements:• Headed successful execution of many initiatives on timelines varying from >12 months through to only 6 months.• Led the initiative delivery implementation for flexibles and carton board formats (10+ initiatives at any one time).• Successfully qualified use of Bio-based PE as an alternative to fossil based material and currently evaluating use of both PCR/PIR and recycled carton board to meet sustainability goals.• Headed simplification / harmonisation of the pack finished product attributes matrix that has now been deployed across all EMEA’s 17 mills, in coordination with the QA team.• Facilitated implementation of the new global Quality Management System, along with developing the department’s onboarding ‘Playbook’ detailing the E2E processes and role expectations.• Coordinated across multi-region, multi-disciplinary teams to troubleshoot any issues and quickly determine the appropriate resolution with all key stakeholders and partners (Brand/Product Supply/ Procurement/Engineering/Suppliers/QA).• Organised regular training, coaching and mentorship for team members to help deliver initiatives and capability work effectively and efficiently.• Inspired and motivated dispersed, remote team in different time zones (including non-English native speakers) and helped achieve several promotions.• Built a highly engaged team with a clear line of sight on goals and objectives, and continually strengthened the team’s capability.• Continually developed knowledge in new areas of packaging and identified innovative and improved ways of working by eliminating non-value-added activities and optimised efficiency. Show less

Reigate, England, United Kingdom

Egham, London

Leading all aspects of the innovation, technical design and development of the Hugo Boss Fragrance initiative porfolio. Development of the team in their Technical Mastery and Project Ownership responsibilities. Continued innovation understanding and exploration. Process capability development and continual system improvement.

Egham, London

Directed promotion of Hugo Boss R&D Pack Brand, mentoring a team of four, responsible for delivering all key initiatives in line with the master plan. R&D Glass Team Leader. Selective Achievements:• Achieved Hugo Boss Fragrances brand growth of more than $650M net outside sales over seven years, as a part of a high-performance team.• Drove complete modernisation of Fine Fragrance specifications to deliver aligned, consistent criteria for all componentry with standardised templates… Show more Directed promotion of Hugo Boss R&D Pack Brand, mentoring a team of four, responsible for delivering all key initiatives in line with the master plan. R&D Glass Team Leader. Selective Achievements:• Achieved Hugo Boss Fragrances brand growth of more than $650M net outside sales over seven years, as a part of a high-performance team.• Drove complete modernisation of Fine Fragrance specifications to deliver aligned, consistent criteria for all componentry with standardised templates and harmonised test methods across three sites.• Created and implemented across Department best practice process for both trialling and documenting Technical Readiness of initiative delivery.• Championed establishment of an extensive physical library of inspirational prototypes and models (primary and secondary componentry) for future creative marketing ‘Hot House’ sessions through identification of potential technology applications for Hugo Boss brand, including continuous monitoring of literature and regular supplier engagement.• Collaborated with external partners (suppliers, academia) to develop best in class innovation for the brands, and drive awareness of competitor packaging activities to identify improvements and innovation opportunities.• Empowered a high-performance team of five to completely refresh and renew the glass design manual and develop corresponding training supplements for the key technology and decoration techniques, as Glass Capability Team Leader.• Facilitated the annual supplier innovation event for all glass interactions and ensured all glass offerings were adequately represented on the digital catalogue.• Provided technical expertise to Innovation Leads classed as ‘Big Bets’, identified as worthy of further development and investigation.• Co-ordinated three external consultant resources for the whole Fine Fragrance Pack community allowing R&D personnel to focus specifically on the key work of innovation and delivery. Show less

Egham, London

Hair Colour Packaging - Enabled Chinese supplier identification and qualification through Front End Innovation for a new highlighting tool (10,000+ units for Transactional Learning Programme)..

Egham, London

Hair Colour Department - Formulation / Chassis Development

Egham, London

Hair Colour Department - Process Development

Egham, London

Hair Care Department - Process Development

Egham, London

Hair Care Department - New Geographies: Process Development

Egham, London

Personal Cleansing Department: Process Development

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cambridge, United Kingdom