Independent Strategic Consultant at Confidential Global Research Client (2026-01 – Present)
Partnered with a leading global research and revenue impact firm to provide expert strategic consultation on the dietary supplement and functional ingredients market. Advised international research teams on product concept development, formulation feasibility, and global regulatory thresholds to shape high-growth industry insights for top-tier B2B clients.
- Strategic Market Profiling: Advised on high-growth consumer benefit platforms, providing strategic analysis on market drivers, consumer need states, and emerging trends across the global dietary and nutritional supplements industry.
- R&D & Formulation Strategy: Guided research teams on complex formulation feasibility, defining the critical trade-offs between clinical efficacy, advanced delivery formats, sensory masking strategies for volatile botanicals, and commercial scalability.
- Regulatory & Compliance Governance: Defined strict "Must-Have" versus "Nice-to-Have" scientific and regulatory thresholds for global product commercialisation. Evaluated complex compliance requirements across FDA (cGMP, CARSE) and European (EFSA/FSA) standards to ensure robust safety and claim substantiation.
- Manufacturing & Supply Chain Assessment: Provided expert assessment on overcoming technical and supply chain bottlenecks, including active ingredient stability, production line failure points, and raw material cost volatility.
Commercial Project Manager at Thompson & Capper UK (2025-05 – 2025-12)
Strategic change leader directing corporate-level transformation and commercial programmes across the nutraceutical portfolio. Proven track record of aligning teams with new business objectives, driving operational readiness, and rescuing underperforming portfolios through structured governance.
- Corporate Transformation & Change Leadership: Directed the Sales Team Transition Programme to align account managers with new strategic processes. Drove operational readiness via cross-site learning sessions, using real-time feedback to rapidly deploy targeted upskilling and strengthen cross-functional alignment.
- Performance Frameworks & Adoption: Developed a targeted performance framework and conducted objective, structured progress reviews to safeguard delivery momentum. Successfully translated stakeholder engagement directly into measurable operational adoption.
- Programme Leadership & Agile Governance: Managed a multi-site supermarket private-label programme and rapidly rescued a delayed customer onboarding project. Restored delivery timelines by introducing a standardised Way of Working (WoW), formal Project Charters, and rigorous risk tracking.
- Client Relationship Management: Re-established a critical client relationship through proactive stakeholder management and pragmatic problem-solving, securing continued partnership after the risk of withdrawal.
Project Management Resourcing Manager at Unilever UK (2022-11 – 2025-02)
Directed global resource strategy and performance management for the project management office, successfully pivoting operational functions to support large-scale innovation and transformation initiatives across 15+ countries.
- Managed a distributed workforce of over 100 PMO, project, and change managers across 9 operational functions and 5 innovation business groups.
- Collaborated with senior stakeholders across multiple countries (USA, UK & EU, India) to ensure global resourcing alignment and efficient remote delivery.
- Delivered €1.8M cost avoidance for global stakeholders by strategically optimizing resource planning and vendor governance.
- Spearheaded significant team scaling, tripling director-level and doubling senior manager-level resources recruitment within the first 12 months.
- Led the end-to-end global resourcing process, expanding capabilities into 15 key countries by validating and onboarding new strategic partners.
- Instituted rigorous multi-vendor management protocols, leading SLA and MSA governance for partners in the UK and India to ensure performance standards.
- Drove capability building by leading project management training courses across global offices and inducting new joiners on internal standard tools and methodologies.
Senior Project Coordinator at Unilever R&D (2018-01 – 2022-10)
- Plan and governance year-on-year innovation projects, create and deliver technical validation roadmap.
- Delivered €19M chemical savings via innovation implementations at global factories.
- Created a new product range via innovative material exploration and supplier collaboration.
- Led and deployed category R&D digital capabilities of in-silico experiment and data capture.
- Chair of Global R&D roundtable meetings, addressing customer & consumer needs by providing technical consultation and actions for regional innovations deployment.
Technical Project Coordinator at Unilever R&D Port Sunlight (2015-01 – 2017-12)
- Delivered innovation projects across EMEA, South Asia, Latam and SEA, led the technical and process development work streams and tailored implementations for global markets.
- Developed New product formats, conducted 3P plant trials and defined manufacturing specifications and QC parameters.
- Trained 100+ co-workers on SAP ERP system adoption, category lead of CoP for continuous improvement and digital R&D implementation.
- Co-developed high throughput, robot measurement data management system & GUI with 3P software engineer, implemented simplified workstream in category and trained users.
Formulation Scientist at Unilever R&D Port Sunlight (2009-11 – 2014-12)
- Led new project development R&D work stream, developed sustainable technical solutions for global consumer requirements.
- Coordinated global supply chain quality profiling programme, defined product shelf life action standards and provided de-risking recommendations & capex requirements.
- Improved working group efficiency through standardising WoW and trained co-workers to use automated analytical robots.
- Process controller of pilot plant scale product development.
R&D Technologist at Unilever R&D (2008-11 – 2009-10)
