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Vancouver, Wa, Us

Northbrook, Illinois, Us

- Develop forward-thinking product stewardship strategies to help transform the future of product development, manufacturing, and end of life. Utilize data to empower companies to make informed decisions about chemicals, materials, circularity, etc. - Focused on building the right tools and services with UL Solutions that assist brands to innovate with sustainability at the core. -Empower brands with actionable insights into the environmental impacts of design, sourcing and manufacturing. Design supply chain transparency tools to help companies comply with regulations while adopting best practices that reduce their environmental footprint and improve overall value chain efficiency.

Seattle, Wa, Us

- Responsible for improving the sustainability of all products sold on Amazon.- Built team of 5 to lead owned brand business teams through development of their sustainable product strategies, external partnerships, policies, roadmaps and goals. - Launched Amazon’s first sustainability focused cross-category brand, Amazon Aware. Presented on behalf of the brand at Sustainable Brands Conference in 2022. - Work closely with internal and external teams to advance product carbon footprint estimates and build carbon reduction action plans including design decisions and supply chain hotspots. - Established goals and developed metrics for business partners; tracked, compiled, and reported sustainability data.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Lead sustainable product development for Target's owned brands within Apparel, Home, and Hardlines. Responsible for strategies and the development of policies for sustainable raw materials. Work closely with CSR, Brands Team, Sourcing, Responsible Sourcing, Compliance, etc. to align priorities and develop strategies that deliver positive impact. Work with executive team to garner commitment and financial support of sustainability investments. Engage 350+ designers and engineers to build better more sustainable products for guests and the earth. - Experience with Sustainable Apparel Coalition MSI tool, Cradle2Cradle, Oeko-Tex certification, organic and BCI cotton, EPA Safer Choice certification, etc. - Steering Committee member for Outdoor Industry Association (OIA) Sustainability Working Group on Chemicals, partner on Flame Retardants working group.- Experience working with multi-stakeholder groups such as RSPO, BCI, OIA, ACS, etc. to drive impact and solutions that work for business.- Co-led development and public launch of Target's Responsible Sourcing & Sustainable Design Aspirations. - Led cross-functional teams that developed and launched Target's Sustainable Sourcing Policies and Goals, including: Chemical Policy, Forest Products Policy, Cotton Policy, Recycled Poly goals. - Experience thinking creatively and strategically to help find unique solutions to problems at scale.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Led Product Development and Design (PD&D) team for Target's $2+ billion private label brand up&up. Managed a high-performing team of scientists, engineers, and a designer. Worked closely with merchants on strategies for existing and new product categories. Owned technical relationships with vendors. Responsible for sustainability policy, development of more sustainable products, and driving innovation with vendors and key partners. Maintain expertise and identify trends in private label by shopping domestic and key international retailers. Lead Sustainability for PD&D Home and Hardlines division.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Lead Product Development and Design (PD&D) team for private label brand up&up. Team consists of Chemists, Engineers, and a Designer. Partner closely with vendors on development for all products of a $2 billion brand. Work with agencies to facilitate both qualitative and quantitative consumer testing. Manage Technical and Design team members, work closely with Packaging, Quality Assurance, Marketing, Merchants, and Vendors to ensure the best private label products for Target guests.Achieved exceptional results in all metrics related to product quality. Brand equity, repeat purchase, and sales at record high levels while consumer complaints dropped significantly. Partner with vendors and internal teams to launch 200+ items each year. Team conducted product cost breakdown work yielding $50M cost savings on $350M business while maintaining product quality. Developed, certified, and launched 'up&up ECO' line of more sustainable cleaners and detergents.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Responsible for product development of formulated products for private label brand up&up. Work closely with vendors, merchants, physical testing agencies, Quality Assurance, packaging, etc. to ensure products are formulated and cost engineered to be the appropriate quality level.

Irving, Tx, Us

Responsible for guiding global business and technical teams on strategy for elastic material technologies to support new Personal Care product initiatives. Define the business case and investment strategies (build, buy, partner, etc.) for elastomeric materials that support product development plans for each global region.

Irving, Tx, Us

Team conceived, designed, and developed new materials and associated web-handling technologies to support the 5-year product vision for Personal Care. Set technical material strategy and established senior management endorsement. Participated in consumer focus groups and use studies.

Irving, Tx, Us

Responsible to develop and implement printing technologies that enabled the Personal Care product vision. Led vendor qualifications and participated in quality audits. Worked with external and internal vendors to develop flexographic and digital ink-jet printing capabilities on nontraditional substrates.

Irving, Tx, Us

Led material development plans on various PULL-UPS®, GOODNITES®, and HUGGIES Little Swimmers® product development projects. Completed joint development agreement with external vendor that successfully delivered impactful results that were on time and on budget.

Phd, Chemistry

Ba, Chemistry