Stuart Rolfe Email & Phone Number

Radlett, Gb

Watford, United Kingdom

Directing a globally-networked team of scientists and engineers who provide technical consultation, hands-on scale-up & implementation in partnership with customers to ensure robust and sustainable utilization of Merck technologies at all aspects of late stage drug development and production. Responsible for customers across Europe, Middle East EU and Africa region. Setting the strategy and direction for the team based on customer and business needs, aligning with both Marketing and Sales objectives. • Supporting process scale-up, implementation and factory fit, along with process reviews, troubleshooting and best practise advice validation & regulatory advice.• Devising strategic approach to meet the needs of established European markets along with growing Middle East & African markets.• Prioritising workload for team to ensure we can support requests, in-line and meeting local and corporate objectives for division.• Drive thought leadership efforts and key customer collaborations to ensure Merck Life Sciences brand is positioned at the cutting edge of technical skills and expertise• Being the Voice of the customer with identifying and communicating technical industry trends to internal stakeholders

Watford, United Kingdom

Managing a small newly formed team of Experienced Consultant BioManufacturing Engineers located across Europe. Directing the team to bring their many years of experience to the customer to solve their toughest challenges. Having knowledge of the full downstream process (DSP), therefore being able to offer holistic support in all process steps. • Managing my team to design, plan and execute scale-up and implementation studies using best practices methodologies to ensure robust and predictable process operation during drug manufacturing at a customer.• Troubleshoot to resolve process related performance issues leading to reduce risk or deviations in a drug manufacturing process, while using technical and customer relationship skills to bring effective solutions for the customers.• Networking within the world wide technical organisation to share and gain knowledge and experience from all areas of the world, which allows a uniform best practise solution.

Watford, United Kingdom

Managing a team of 6 Biomanufacturing Engineers based in the field across Europe. Building up collaborative partnerships approach with customers offering solutions and support, helping to develop and optimise processes with commercial and regulatory considerations met. • Working to both process develop the customer processes, as well and scale up and implementation in full manufacturing scale.• Design processes and calculate scale-up parameters to determine process scale system configuration and performance along with recommending best practice operating strategies• Building strong customer relationships at all levels through there organisation to position Millipore’s capabilities and solution approach.

Various technical roles and promotions within Millipore UK.Field Purification Engineer:- Responsible for Downstream Purification (TFF, Chromatography and Virus) products covering West Europe (UK, Ireland, Benelux & Nordics). Involving complete understanding of customer applications and effective positioning of Millipore products to meet hose needs. Developing a full understanding of current and future market requirements with ensuring market trends are fed back within the organisation. Senior Application Engineer (Promoted Sept 2004)Supporting Application development, scale up and implementation of processes, along with Technical services support to customer requests. Generating written reports with recommendations from data obtained during trials. Presenting these reports against success criteria and making process improvements to the customers. Carry out customer process reviews to promote products and Millipore to the customer.• Sales & Budget responsibilities for TFF products (1.17K$), achieving 235% achievement in 2005.

This position was a pro-active hands-on management role for the production of therapeutic blood products. Motivating and organising team of 5 staff. Organising workload, strategies and overseeing all production and personnel issue’s on the shift.• Effective planning of both people and equipment to ensure production requirements could be met on schedule. Prioritising workload and maintaining a continual smooth running of the shift to meet all production demands• Responsible for the assessing and carrying out performance reviews on team members. Setting SMART goals, objectives and training requirements for the coming year.• Writing new Standard Operating Procedures and checking completed batch-manufacturing records before transfer to document control for signing off and release of product.• Monitoring / controlling the department budget.