Irshaad Rahimtulla

Experience

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  Hackett of london

  Nov 2017 - Dec 2018

  Sales Consultant

  Part time sales consultant for the hackett store in mall of africaResponsibilities in store included:• Greeted customers and offered assistance with selecting merchandise, finding accessories and completing purchases.• Processed cash and credit card payments as well as opening and closing of the retail outlet.• Trained new employees on customer service, money handling and organising strategies.• Adjusted prices via pre-set schedules, supply management department costs and other factors on a regular basis. • Opened new merchandise and stocked sales floor racks and shelves. Show less

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  Union Swiss

  Jun 2019 - Oct 2023

  • Responsibilities include:• Technical Transfer: Lead the technical transfer of new products from the R&D phase to large-scale production, ensuring seamless integration into manufacturing processes.• Scale-Up and Process Optimization: Develop and implement scaling strategies for formulations, ensuring consistency and quality and identify opportunities for process improvement, and efficiency enhancement in the manufacturing of existing and new products.• Quality Assurance: Collaborate with quality control teams to maintain the highest quality standards during production. Conduct regular quality assessments and implement corrective actions when necessary.• Problem Solving: Troubleshoot production issues and implement solutions to maintain smooth operations. Analyze data and conduct root cause analyses when deviations occur.• Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams including formulations chemists, production managers, and quality assurance teams to ensure effective communication and collaboration.• Training: Train staff at all levels on new processes, technologies, and equipment. Ensure that the team is equipped with the necessary skills for successful productionContinuous development of current product range.• Management of real time and accelerated stability projects.• Data analysis and reporting of projects to senior management.• Technical and regulatory reviews of raw materials.• Lead on alternative supplier document reviews and product testing.• Specialty raw material research and development.• Review and improvement of quality process and SOPs.• Lead on wet chemistry protocol development and testing procedure implementation. Specializing in total oxidative testing on natural and synthetic oils.• Lead on various process improvement campaigns. Laboratory and start to end of production line.• Lead on new instrumentation testing and protocol development.• Lead on root cause analysis for product NCR and quality failures. Show less • Lead on real time and accelerated sample analysis.• Set-up and maintenance of timeline studies.• Lead on timeline study analysis and data capturing.• Lead on data analysis and presentation.• Asist with root cause analysis for NCR and Deviations.• Assist with new product development and launch.• Assist with factory briefing on new product arrival.• Assist with factory set up for new product arrival. Equipment, safety, and process.• Training of new team and lab members.• Annual presentation to board of directors on current product stability.• Assist with new wet chemistry relevance testing and implementation. Show less Quality sampling, testing and release of intermediary and final product.• Quality sampling, testing and release of raw materials.• Quality sampling, testing and release of primary and secondary packaging.• Lab equipment verification and calibration.• Assist formulations with continuous product stability testing.• Assist formulations with laboratory trials on new process for current products.• Assist engineering with new filling line commissioning.• Assist production leads with manufacturing of intermediary mixes.• Assist production leads with manufacturing of final product Show less

  • Junior Formulations Chemist

    Jun 2021 - Oct 2023

  • Formulations Assistant

    May 2020 - Jun 2021

  • Lab intern

    Jun 2019 - May 2020
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  The Care Co.

  Oct 2023 - now

  New Product Development Specialist and technical sales assitant

  Part of th New Product Development team and salesbusiness unitEnsures execution of high quality practical application work based on suitable laboratory practices for achieving Product development needs.Ensures good laboratory housekeeping and ensures stock of materials is maintained.Provides technical guidance; Handles technical internal and external inquiries.Ensures a high level quality service to internal/external clients.Produce sample applications for market research on different segments market segments based on internal briefs. Produce practical samples application based on client briefs. Show less