Richard King

New technology manager creating relevant business products, solutions and predictive models to promote to clients and creative teams to increase business growth

• Guided R&D to create impactful solutions for clients
• Managed innovation programs and reported to key stakeholders and upper management
• Filed patents to protect new technologies
• Worked with cross functional teams to create holistic innovative solutions for clients

• Led the technical team on a key account in order to win $20 million in sales within 2 years
• Guide fragrance creation through application research and testing
• Successfully collaborated with client development teams to bring a Firmenich technology to market, which resulted in $2.5 million sales and other exclusive development opportunities
• Support R&D projects and initiatives to deliver relevant technologies to clients
• Design and implement research programs that enable creative teams to deliver technically superior fragrances
• Lead the global technical team on key client projects
• Manage an application and testing laboratory
• Connect and develop with suppliers and co-packers for new ingredients and technologies in areas such as air fresheners, low VOC formulas, candles and malodor counteraction

• Participated in development and execution of business strategy for the air care category
• Led global projects and coordinated between peers in Europe and Latin America
• Maintained network and assisted the information gathering within the global air care community
• Managed and trained technicians and junior scientists

• Guided perfumers in developing technically compliant perfumes
• Pre-empted possible technical difficulties associated with various product forms
• Applied technologies to air care segment and develop them for specific clients
• Collaborated with client chemists on various air freshener development projects
• Developed a new air care technology with a client
• Designed tools to help analyze perfume physical properties to predict performance in air freshener formats

• Provided technical support and testing on development projects
• Experience in presenting studies and project findings to clients
• Applied core technologies to surface care and all purpose cleaner category

• Research and Development project leader in Oral Care division
• Supervised plant trials including pre-production and start-up
• Implemented finished product specifications for manufacturing and quality assurance
• Coordinated with raw material vendors to develop specifications and required analysis