Stuart Bainbridge

r and d director - global business solutions

About

R&D Manager and Product Development professional in the FMCG industry. Experienced in a wide range of product fields including; Personal care, Cosmetics, Candles, Aerosols, Wipes, Disinfection, Household Cleaning & Consumer Healthcare. This includes expertise in all areas of product development from innovation and concept development to formulation development and scale-up. Passion for building and leading high performance teams to achieve outstanding business results.

Country

City

Industry

consumer goods

Skill

formulation, personal care, product development, product innovation, consumer products, chemistry, analytical chemistry, gmp, raw materials, r&d, fmcg, project management, cross functional team leadership, fast moving consumer goods, design of experiments, management, research and development, customer insight, candles, aerosol, disinfection

Experience

r and d director - global business solutions

research chemist

basf

2006-9 - 2007-4 · 8 mos

Organic synthesis Research Chemist in the Fungicide Research Group of BASF-AG, Ludwigshafen-am-Rhein, Germany. Responsible for conducting retrosynthetic analysis of lead compounds of interests, evaluating potential synthesis paths and the practical implementation of these synthesis routes of the lead compounds and selected derivatives.

r and d operations director amea - hygiene home

2018-1 - Present · 8 yrs 9 mos

r and d portfolio manager - dvm

2015-8 - 2016-2 · 7 mos

Responsible for project prioritisation and R&D resource allocation across all RB Hygiene & Home brands in Developing Markets.

r and d manager - m and e namet

2013-7 - 2015-7 · 2 yrs 1 mo

R&D Manager responsible for Dettol product portfolio in Middle East, North Africa & Turkey regions.

senior research associate - germ protection personal care

2011-6 - 2013-6 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Responsible for leading a team of R&D Associates in the global development of new Body Wash formulations and innovations. Technical project leader for several highly complex, multi-format NPD projects.

r and d associate - sc and gp - ssg north america

2010-7 - 2011-6 · 1 yr

Responsible for leading the development of North America - Surface Care & Germ Protection NPD/EPD projects. This also included managing claim support development, raw material qualification, quality & regulatory support (EPA registrations).

r and d associate - homecare - ssg north america

2009-8 - 2010-7 · 1 yr

Responsible for leading the development of North American – Homecare NPD/EPD projects. This included leading the development and launch of a new range of Candle products under the Airwick brand. This also included managing production transfer, raw material qualification, claim support development, quality & regulatory support for the Homecare category.

r and d associate - new technologies group

2009-3 - 2009-8 · 6 mos

Responsible for leading Consumer Healthcare innovation projects and technologies feasibility assessments.

r and d associate - ssg western europe

2008-9 - 2009-3 · 7 mos

Responsible for leading EPD and brand maintainence projects for several European Personal Care brands. This included managing projects for production transfer, scale-up, quality, raw material qualification and regulatory compliance.

r and d associate - depilatories category development

2007-9 - 2008-9 · 1 yr 1 mo

Responsible for leading Global NPD Projects for Depilatory waxes. Departmental expert in Design of Experiment formula optimisation.

senior r and d manager

2016-3 - 2017-12 · 1 yr 10 mos

Senior R&D Manager responsible for Hygiene, Personal Care & Surface Care across Africa, Middle East and Turkey. Leading a cross regional team to deliver new innovations and existing product improvements.