Uma Madhavan

Experience

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  Arcot Sri Mahalakshmi Women's College of Education

  Jun 2002 - Dec 2005

  Lecturer

  Worked as a lecturer of Chemistry in Arcot Mahalakshmi Women’s college. Felicitated with the best teacher award consistently. Showed 100% pass results year on year.

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  Unilever

  Jan 2005 - now

  • Part of Global Design Centre, Home and Hygiene team Bangalore as a Lead formulator, working on global and regional innovation projects.• As a single-point R&D contact, working seamlessly with SEAC, Regulatory, CTI, Marketing, and deploy teams for product launch readiness. • Developed cost-effective formulations for HDW category for Asia, and SEA markets.• Digital lead for Home and Hygiene Bangalore team. Trained a team of 60 people on the Laboratory Information Management System. • Key R&D contact for a few notable Strategic suppliers of Raw materials. Show less Roles & Accomplishments: Measurement Scientist • Core analytical team member supporting to various Unilever global as well as regional product development & deploy teams within Home Care. • Hands-on experience with several instrumental techniques and developed expertise in spectral & chromatographic data interpretations. Hands-on experience in calibration and maintenance of instruments, preparation of various documents like SOPs, Protocols, Reports, etc.• Expert in new method developments, capability building, product bench marking, stability studies, and contaminants analysis.• Capability building and method development for product understanding & product superiority, claim substantiation & customer demos for product launch. • Handling issues from legal complaints, customer sample complaints, quality issues related to RMs/FGs, and data generation.• Guidance for new fragrance development: GC-FID/MS method development to guide the team on perfume development for Comfort. • New Product Launch in Africa: New GC method development, method validations, and method transfer to contract labs for Claim substantiation for new product launch in Africa. The Project team has been awarded the fastest to land in the market award (3 months), and is well recognised across Unilever for team efforts. • New product Launch in India: New method development for showing Product superiority and Claim substantiation for Domex Toilet cleaning powder.• New product launch and disruptive innovation: Analytical methods developed for claim support. Delivered killing product demonstrations to show product properties and superiorities to consumers and customers.• Guidance for new product development: Guidance provided to characterize the physico-chemical properties of stains through the entire life cycle to arrive at a total solution for stain removal. Show less

  • New Product Development Manager

    Dec 2005 - now

  • Assistant Research Scientist

    Jul 2009 - now

  • Research Associate

    Jan 2005 - Jul 2009