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Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

A senior management role with the responsibility for R&D Projects in Australia, New Zealand and Vietnam.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

A global leadership role that reports directly to the CEO and involves managing a team of scientists and business development professionals in Australia, Europe and USA; liaising with customers; developing, scaling-up and testing new products; working with production team to design manufacturing processing for new products and managing state of the art formulation and characterisation lab.

A global role that involves developing and delivering on 'New Product Introduction' and ‘Management of Change’ strategy for strategic products across the sites in Europe, USA, China, Japan, India and South Africa. A global role that involved project managing multiple ‘New Process/Product Introduction’ projects across the Johnson Matthey sites in Europe, USA, China, Japan, and India. Monitored and improved performance of development projects across multiple parameters such as delivery time, cost, quality, H&S, and sustainability.

A leadership role that involves formulating R&D strategy, coaching team members and shaping company’s intellectual position at public fora.Fostered a strong innovation culture within the R&D team with focus on value generation, cross-functional collaboration and entrepreneurship that led to trebling of project portfolio value from £4m to >£12m in less than 2 yearsSparkplug electrode for Mercedes-AMG: Worked in collaboration with Mercedes-AMG to develop an innovative solution to sustain optimum engine performance of F1 cars throughout the race using a new PGM sparkplug electrode. This resulted in improved results for the customer and a very profitable business for JM.Won A4I competition (£100K grant): Led development of high strength thermocouple wire with a potential to improve efficiency of nuclear reactors and jet engines. The project entry won £100K funding from Innovate Uk’s ‘Analysis for Innovators’ program in 2018 to further develop and test the product at National Physical Laboratory

Led all aspects of production processes and management of projects at the Global level, including outsourcing of an important function.Transformed a poorly performing team by process improvement and inventory control to achieve savings of £250k/year and an additional £1Mn revenue.

Led opportunity identification process to improve and develop products and processes as per customer needs. Collaborated with major Fortune 500 customers to develop critical components for highly regulated industries such as nuclear energy, large medical devices and automotive.

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Certificate In Enterprise

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