• Developed personal care and home care formulations to promote ingredient value propositions and inspire customers during sales meetings with top hair, skin care, and homecare brands• Provided support to personal care and homecare customers in North and South America with ingredient suggestions for their projects and with formulation assistance• Technical expert on cross functional team for the “Beauty at Play” marketing concept presented at New York Suppliers’ Day 2023 responsible for developing technical literature, picking prototype packaging, and providing input to marketing regarding formulation names• Solely responsible for implementing the US home care lab by researching and ordering all the appropriate materials, ingredients, equipment, and developing SOPs for the development and testing of home care formulations• Promoted the Clariant portfolio at trade shows and meet with current and potential customers to present marketing concepts, discuss ingredient chemistry, efficacy, and clinical studies

• Developed new formulations for premium interior product paint lines using technical knowledge of surfactants, rheology modifiers, and other raw materials• Led product formulation for two new product lines using direct customer feedback to improve appearance and application of paint• Tested various coating prototype dry film attributes versus competitors to benchmark performance• Guided manufacturing plants during the initial production of three new products by providing onsite support during product launch• Prepared and presented project updates from the premium interior paint team to upper management during bi-weekly meetings• Established relationships with raw material vendors to discuss new technology for current and future product development• Trained and managed up to three lab technicians at a time, assigning them to projects and data collection