Kemani Smith
Sr. Global Innovation Leader at Pernod Ricard
- Role
- Innovation Leader at Pernod Ricard
- Location
- New York, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Kemani Smith
An esteemed, results driven, energetic Innovation and Technical Marketing Manager with over 19 years of combined experience in linking the worlds of science, analytics and consumer insight to deliver game-changing and industry leading innovation. Has a proven track record of success in product, process and method formulation and development. Extensive experience in design of experiments and multivariate modeling, consumer insight to technology translation while realizing the criticality of cost infrastructure and improved organizational capability and performance. An authentic, ambitious, team oriented and hands-on technical leader who offers creative solutions leveraging a deep understanding of critical business initiatives to deliver sustainable results. Showcases a consistent and documented ability to lead technical and creative teams in developing new concepts and initiatives that effectively reinforce and build brand equity all while leveraging the unique ability to lead ideas from concept to finished product.Skills: Product/Formulation Design and Development; Formulation; Design Thinking; Technical Marketing; Consumer Insight; Leading and Developing Business and Organizational Capability; Creative; Futuristic; Strategic; Competitive Analysis; Market Research; Peer Assist and Review; Consultation; Method Development; Prototyping and Demo Development; Cross-Functional Leadership; Innovation.
Experience
Innovation Leader
Apr 2021 — Present · New York, NY, US
Education
Howard University
Bachelors of Science, Science and Chemistry
1998 — 2002
Skills
- R&D
- Trombone
- Modeling
- Advertising Sales
- Rheology
- Scale-Up
- Technical Leadership
- Customer Insight
- Methods Development
- Polymer Science
- Product Innovation
- Design of Experiments
- Chemistry
- Microsoft Excel
- Fmcg
- Surface Modification
- Open Innovation
- Raw Materials
- Product Design
- Process Simulation
- Microsoft Office
- Organic Chemistry
- Jmp
- Surfactants
- Consumer Insight
- Mentoring
- Strategy
- Process Development
- Competitive Analysis
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Consumer Products
- Leadership
- Product Development
- Battery Chemistry
- Management
- Design Thinking
- Analytics
- Troubleshooting
- Demonstrations
- Personal Care
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