• Lead a multidisciplinary team in development of multi-million-pound projects through conception, design, and transfer to deliver innovations that provide a superior product experience to consumers.• Lead and coaching a team of development scientists, providing development opportunities that enhance their skills and provide growth.• Ownership of science led innovation to for anti-gingivitis toothpaste portfolio, driving early-stage concepts and novel patented technologies to fill the future pipeline of innovations.• Company expert in design and development processes, proactively collaborating across the business to continually improve the speed and efficiency product development, whilst maintaining high quality standards.

Owner global product development processes across innovation, new product introduction and optimisation of current portfolio.Creation of harmonised yet flexible product development processes - designed to be fit-for purpose to the product type and market classification, covering medical devices, medicinal, cosmetics, foods and more.• Subject Matter Expert for related policies and procedures• Authoring of global Quality Manuals and SOPs.• Provide training on updated processes.Represent Consumer Health R&D as product development expert within cross-functional global teams across manufacturing, small molecule pharmaceuticals, biologicals and vaccines groups. For example:• Setting strategy for governance of product development within Consumer Health• Setting strategy on GSKs response to potential regulatory changes (e.g. ICH Q12)Leadership of global team in matrix environment to provide coaching support and expert guidance on various aspects of product and process design.• Established and maintained communities of practice and share knowledge across global teams, spanning 300+ scientists in multiple locations.

• Programme management of work stream to harmonise end to end NPI introduction across the world wide consumer health categories• Define strategy for Quality by Design to ensure we have the right processes, capability and ways of working to deliver right first time new products of the required quality standards• Diagnose and lead projects to remediate process robustness issues over a wide range of products within consumer health.• Lead R&D activities to remediate process capability in the supply chain.

• Facilitated ideation sessions to identify opportunities for innovation on existing portfolio, focusing on improving the consumer perception while reducing cost.• Ownership of pipeline of projects to maintain denture care business over many years.• Built financial business case, developed and owned project plan across multifunctional team.• Delivered product launches implementing formulation, process and packaging improvements.• Line managed MSc students evaluating new formulation options.Mar-May 2014: Secondment to Oak Hill, NY manufacturing facility to support commissioning of new manufacturing equipment.

• Provided technical support for internal and external third party manufacturers for oral care products and OTC cold and flu remedies.• Projects included: third party technology transfer support; collation and rationalisation of analytical methods at an internal manufacturing site; investigation into discolouration of new mouthwash formula.

Based in the Technical Development department, I supported manufacture of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients on site.• Validation of new analytical methods for release testing of active pharmaceutical ingredients, to meet the needs of the Quality Assurance department.• Led analytical technology transfers both from R&D into manufacturing and outwards to third party manufacturers.• Led process improvement and investigative projects to root cause processes/analytical issues, reducing manufacturing downtime, increasing efficiency and saving cost.• Worked as the technical support for production of NPI's, being accountable for key operational, chemical and analytical decisions to enable successful validation of the process.