Carsten Roll

Head of Leaf & Product Development bei Landewyck Tobacco S.A.

Bayreuth, Bavaria, Germany

About

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...

Experience

  • Landewyck Tobacco S.A. (Luxemburg, Luxemburg)
    • Head of Leaf & Product Development
      Oct 2020 - Present · 5 yrs 10 mos

      - 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.

    • Manager Leaf & Blending
      Sep 2020 - Sep 2020 · 1 mo

  • British American Tobacco (Full-time · 6 yrs 11 mos)
    • Senior Product Development Manager, Northern Europe Area
      Jun 2018 - Aug 2020 · 2 yrs 3 mos

      - 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).

    • Senior Product Developer Other Tobacco Products (OTP)
      Oct 2013 - May 2018 · 4 yrs 8 mos

      - 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).

  • JTI (Japan Tobacco International) (Trier, Rheinland-Pfalz, Deutschland)
    • Casing & Flavor Director, Team Lead
      Aug 2010 - Sep 2013 · 3 yrs 2 mos

      - 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 Director
      Jan 2008 - Jul 2010 · 2 yrs 7 mos

      - Casing & Flavour Development.

  • Austria Tabak AG & Co KG (Wien, Österreich)
    • Team Leader Product Development
      Jul 2007 - Dec 2007 · 6 mos

      - Interim Team Lead supporting functional integration after acquisition of Gallaher Group through JTI.

    • Flavour Development Manager
      Jan 2005 - Jun 2007 · 2 yrs 6 mos

      - Group-wide Casing & Flavour Development responsibility. - Development and implementation of Group-wide flavour additives strategy & policy.

    • Flavour Developer
      Dec 2003 - Dec 2004 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Freelancer at Self-employed
    Apr 2003 - Nov 2003 · 8 mos