Bayreuth, Bavaria, Germany
Passionate, hands-on Product Developer in tobacco industry with extensive leadership and project management experience. I enjoy seeing the results of my work go up in smoke...
- Responsible for Tobacco Leaf Purchasing, Blending and Product Development in HvL Group. - Development and specification responsibility for cigarettes, Roll-Your-Own, Make-Your-Own, cigarillos and Next Generation Products.
- Responsible Product Developer and market contact for Scandinavia. - Product Champion for local brands Prince and King's. - Responsible for Product portfolio maintenance and optimization measures. - SAP support for Modern Oral Tobacco Products (LYFT, Velo).
- Product Development for Roll-Your-Own, Make-Your-Own, cigar/cigarillo and pipe tobacco. - Responsible Developer for all Make-Your-Own Products in BAT worldwide. - Product Champion for Pall Mall, Rothmans and Cutter's Choice OTP brand range. - Product Champion for Dunhill pipe tobacco range (until 2017).
- Lead of Team with 10 functional experts. - Casing & Flavour Development responsibility. - Conduct of Product improvement and cost optimization projects. - Qualification and Quality Control of raw materials for production. - Technical qualification of Casing & Flavour equipment in factories worldwide.
- Casing & Flavour Development.
- Interim Team Lead supporting functional integration after acquisition of Gallaher Group through JTI.
- Group-wide Casing & Flavour Development responsibility. - Development and implementation of Group-wide flavour additives strategy & policy.