Belgium
20 year experience in leading innovation programs in multi-cultural environment. Setting innovation strategies and managing complex initiative and technology development portfolios. Innovating existing and new-to-the-world products, balancing short term needs with long term opportunities. Track record of developing people and building organizations with high employee job satisfaction ratings. Development of new R&D capabilities to drive speed and productivity. Partnering with marketing and commercial teams to develop strategies and drive product introductions. Building alliances with external partners to develop product ideas and technology solutions. Specialties: - Formula design - Upstream technology development - Consumer research and concept development - Package and device development - Cost innovation - Intellectual property management - New innovation processes and capabilities - Organizational development - Coaching and Mentoring managers and technologists