MADAN V N
New Product Development In Food Industry
KENGERI, BANGALORE
Summary
“ To pursue a fast track and challenging career in the company, utilizing my skills for growth of the organization, which in turn helps me to have firsthand experience of the work where talent is recognized and awarded suitably with growth in my career”. STRENGTHS AND SKILLS: Hands on experience and high caliber in creating, developing and executing business plans and strategies by consolidating and improving marketing processes of the organization. Confident and outgoing personality. Self-driven and motivated individual. Proficient in English, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil & Hindi languages. Dedicated to quality work Highly motivated and committed Team player- work cohesively in a team and continuously contribute towards the team’s objectives Proven ability to reach goals. Good Problem solving Skills. Good Presentation & Communication Skills. Self-Motivated & Self-confidence.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Manager
Bundl Technologies Pvt Ltd (Swiggy)
Bangalore
01.2022 - Current
- Key Responsibility:
- Identification of potential Vendors:
- Research external market information and entrepreneurial companies to identify potential sources and suppliers
- Track the potential supplier’s performance based on success matrix & develop a vendor playbook (Consist of company name, location, address, POC contact number, email Id, Product portfolio)
- Screening & Selection Process:
- Drive supplier selection through robust screening processes & parameters
- Assess new and existing supplier capabilities to meet product, cost, quality, capacity, and fulfillment matrix
- Drive & conduct NDA process with vendor
- Product Development:
- Interface with culinary teams to prioritize SKUs development by category for new projects
- Liaising culinary team with vendor team for internal formulation & specification for the development exercise
- Conduct benchmarking studies to determine best suited products and future trends
- Provide technical requirements from the culinary team for product development
- Develop positive relationships and work closely with the SCM team to manage, implement, and track suppliers
- Assist with new product launch by working with vendor to ensure that key milestones are achieved
- Cost Effective Exercise:
- Liaising culinary, quality and procurement cross functional to drive cost effective improvements to introduce new products
- Deliver results as measured by key metrics, such as yield, cost, defect rate, supplier quality plan engagement/effectiveness, and corrective & preventive action closure
- Controlled costs and optimized spending via restructuring of budgets for labor, capital assets, inventory purchasing and technology upgrades.
Assistant Manager
AB Mauri India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
03.2019 - 12.2021
- Sweet Bakery Good: Developed Products for Key Customers and Pan India General Market
- Developed Complete Mixes, semi concentrates and concentrates for Cakes and other sweet goods
- Developed Egg Free cakes- Vanilla sponge, chocolate & other flavors sponge
- Developed muffins- Vanilla & Chocolate for General market
- Developed Egg Free Brownie- Chewy Brownie & Fudge Brownie for specific clients and for General market
- Developed Egg Free Bar cake- Vanilla & Chocolate for specific clients like Elite & Modern
- Developed long shelf life cupcakes for Elite & others clients
- Developed Cake Rusk for specific customers
- Developed Plum cake premix, both Egg & Egg Free using own spice blends
- Developed Lean Cake sponge (No Fat or oil added in the recipe) for one of the client
- Working on different Enzymes for Cakes- Lipase for Egg Reduction and Maltogenic amylase for prolonged softness in bar cakes & cupcakes
- Developed millet Bar cake for Elite- Vanilla & Chocolate
- Developed Red velvet cake & purple velvet cakes for general market
- Egg Base Cake Mixes both Vanilla & Chocolate, Red Velvet Cake Mix
- Developed Cake mixes, concentrates and semi concentrates for general market & specific clients according to their requirement
- Cookies Mixes- Developed different cookie mixes for general trade & specific customers
- Bread & Ferments: Developed Products for Key customers and General markets
- Worked on Datem replacement using Lipase and Glucose oxidase
- Solution to Breads softness using Maltogenic amylase
- Worked on specific customer for whiter crumb colour in Breads using Lipase and amylase Enzyme
- Worked on Enzymes in Breads to strengthen the Breads & texture improvements for General category
- Working on Gluten reduction in the Breads using enzymes
- Working on Clean Label Improvers for specific customers
- Liquid Products: Developed few liquid products for Bakeries
- Neutral Glazes- Developed good product with low Cost and easily available ingredients
- Mirror Glaze- Developed mirror glaze with economical price
- Flavor Glazes- Developed Flavored Glazes with the economical price
- Cake Gel Emulsifier- Developed Cake gel for economical and premium market
- Ingredients for Bakery:
- Double Acting Baking Powder- Developed Aluminum Free Baking Powder for Key Accounts and as well as General Markets
- Understand Markets - Competitor Understanding, Support market intelligence and collect and analyze competitor samples from the market with brand teams validate findings of pilot plant trials through market research in order to ensure products are acceptable in the market through defined and agreed consumer preference testing methodologies
- Manage information resources and technology
- Analyses for Finished Products including key parameters, includes Volume Analysis, Texture Analysis, Viscosity, pH & setc..,
- Part of Taste Panel member team for sensory analysis of Cakes, Confectionery & Breads.
Head- New Product Development
PELLAGIC FOOD INGREDIENTS PVT LTD
Bangalore
02.2017 - 03.2019
- Pellagic Food Ingredients is established in the year 2012, January having its registered office in Bangalore with an aim to supply world class food ingredients with innovative approach to cater the needs of various food manufacturers within India and overseas
- Job Responsibility:
- Design New Product: Understand marketing brief and convert into recipe and specifications for assigned projects for local and export markets
- Create concept samples and conduct feasibility studies
- Handling various projects, starts from New Product Development, creating a Branding etc in the area of Bakery, dairy, beverages & dry blending
- Source ingredients from suppliers and conduct pilot plant trials and then scale up in actual production center to provide samples for market research
- Check on legal compliances & coordinate with regulatory team, calculate costs, and identify ingredients and equipment requirements
- Vendor Management: Coordinate and Recommend business partners and vendors for supporting on projects and ingredients
- Sourcing the best Raw Material for best price
- Provide Engineering Support - Help in identifying technology, suppliers and equipment manufacturers for equipment and process up gradation
- Produce and deliver products and services - Support engineering in sourcing / developing equipment for new products in order to ensure availability of appropriate machinery for production
- Understand Markets - Competitor Understanding, Support market intelligence and collect and analyze competitor samples from the market with brand teams validate findings of pilot plant trials through market research in order to ensure products are acceptable in the market through defined and agreed consumer preference testing methodologies
- Manage information resources and technology
- Documentation: Prepare product and process standards documents and circulate to designated teams
- Finish all back end formalities and documentations to ensure timely development and commercialization of innovations
- Manage Brands - All round product renovations of products and brands under preview, conduct technical feasibility, collect data and evaluate products and machines, conduct pilot plant trials, scale up and support in order to ensure timely and successful renovation /innovation of products
- Co manufactures development for our products
- Inspecting the area of production, works with them for the best facilities, equipment & machineries for our production
- Team Building and Leading: Recruiting suitable candidate for the R & D, Quality & Scale up production and leading them in proper way
- Excellent leadership skills, capable of motivating and handling teams to produce desired results even under situations of pleasant work pressure and constrain
- Projects Working on:
- Bakery Glazes- Neutral, Chocolate & Caramel- Developed best glazes with the cost management and reduces cost to maximum level
- Cake Gel Improver
- Fondant Paste- Developed good Fondant paste with better pliability
- Ecofil- Starch based flavor filling for Bakeries
- Fruit Filling & Fruit Preparations for Bakery & Dairy using modified starches & stabilizers
- Prepared best filling
- Eggless Premixes- Egg free cake mixes, Eggless Choco lava mix , Eggless Brownie, Eggless waffle mixes & waffle cone mixes
- Other dry Mixes: Softee mixes and Rolled Ice Cream Premixes
- Instant Mixes like Badam drink (various ranges), drinking chocolates, ice tea etc
- Bake stable jams as fillings for cookies & biscuits
- High Fiber jams with low water activity
- Working on Cream Fillings for Chocolate application.
Technical Manager
VINTOP PRODUCTS PVT LTD
Bangalore
07.2015 - 01.2017
- Quality analysis of various raw materials, final finished products and packing materials
- Inspection of working area for Quality standards
- Reviewing day to day operational performance
- Development and implement good manufacturing practices and SOP’s
- Assurance of GMP in plant quality systems and sanitation assurance
- Raw material approval and cross verifying COA’s (microbiological/ chemical)
- Preparing a weekly and monthly production plan based on the sales figures and increasing the fill rates
- Handling more than 150 SKU’s in the plant
- Man powder handling in the plant, training and conducted food safety awareness for the staff and employees
- Planned to reduce the wastages during the production
- Vendor development, designing and approving of the new packaging & Equipments
- Taking care of R&D, new Product development for bakery and dairy industries
- Sourcing for the best packaging and Raw material and discussing with the management for the commercials
- Monitor and control Plant hygiene, Pest control activity.
Quality Assurance Officer
NILGIRIS DAIRY FARM PVT LTD, FUTURE CONSUMER ENTERPRISES LTD
Bangalore
11.2012 - 06.2015
- Nilgiris is South India’s leading chain of retail stores providing consumers a shopping experience that hinges around freshness of produce, superior quality and better value
- From humble beginnings in the hills around Ooty and Coonoor at the turn of the twentieth century, Nilgiris has grown from being a Dairy Farm specializing in butter to a supermarket chain of over 90 stores spread across India’s southern states
- JOB DESCRIPTION:
- Quality analysis of various raw materials, final finished products and packing materials
- Inspection of working area for Quality standards
- Reviewing day-to-day operational performance
- Development and implement good manufacturing practices and SOP’s
- Assurance of GMP in plant quality systems and sanitation assurance
- Ensuring that process needed for the quality management system established and implemented and maintained
- Responsible for inward and accounting of all type of raw materials required for process
- New Product development as per the market requirement
- Planning of the food safety management system is carried out to meet requirements as well as the objectives of the company that meets food safety
- Coordination with related departments for keeping the process continuous and for smooth running
- Reporting to top management on the performance of the quality management system and any need of improvements
- Supervising all regulatory compliance activities and helping quality assurance policies and best practice principals covering the safety, design, production, inspection
- Handling QA lab
- Microbiological & chemical testing of samples and cross verification with third party laboratories
- Shelf life study of the various sku’s
- As a R&D coordinator, various products have been designed and coordinating with the production team at the time of product launch
- Developed & altered few specialized cakes like Rich Plum cakes, Egg Free Plum cake, Prune cakes and Dates cakes
- Developed Banana cakes and coffee cakes for the specific clients like Chai point
- Increased the shelf life of the cakes below the threshold limit of the preservative by reducing the water activity
- Developed various cup cakes, Cookies & Muffins for specific customers like Toyota, Wipro, Robert Bosch & Other companies as a teatime snack
- Developed regular Cookies & Health Based cookies for different clients like Ragi Cookie, Oats & nuts cookie & millet cookies
- Analysis of the samples (drinking water, water used for food production, foods etc)
- Environmental Monitoring
- Settle Plates, Surface Swabbing
- Personal monitoring by swabbing/ contact plats, Active Air sampling
- Instrument calibration: Weighing balance, pH meter, Incubators, etc
- Monitoring and controlling the personnel hygiene standards and critical control points
- Review and Approval of BOM
- Raw material approval and cross verifying COA’s (microbiological/ chemical)
- Keeping quality documentation up to date
- Making sure that all QA records, data & information are available to managers (ISO 22000)
- Implementation of prerequisite programmes and operational prerequisite program
- Corrective action taking on non-conformance during in process and resolving product based complaints
- Review complaints received from customers to identify any issues that need to be addressed & corrected
- Initiating and carrying out internal audits according to the internal audit schedule
- Preparing and analyzing information for the purpose of Management Review
- Monitor and control Plant hygiene, Pest control activity and Sanitation activities
- Scheduling calibration of equipments, schedule maintenance of equipments and third party testing
- Manage and maintain the company quality inspection and product quality release program in SAP Software for incoming raw material, packing material and finished goods
- ACHIEVEMENTS:
- Cleared ISO surveillance audit three times and recertification audit
- Revised many BOM’s and introduced many products
- Nilgiris is South India’s leading chain of retail stores providing consumers a shopping experience that hinges around freshness of produce, superior quality and better value
- From humble beginnings in the hills around Ooty and Coonoor at the turn of the twentieth century, Nilgiris has grown from being a Dairy Farm specializing in butter to a supermarket chain of over 90 stores spread across India’s southern states
- It is the only supermarket chain that lays special emphasis on its own products, sold under the brand name of Nilgiris 1905
- With in-house capabilities centering on Bakery and Dairy products, Nilgiris has grown to become a household name in the south with consumers spanning successive generations.Bottom of Form
01.2010 - 01.2011
- In Dayananda Sagar College
- Participated in various inter & intra-college competitions
- Attended various National & international symposiums
- Participated in the national Symposium on “Molecular Innovations in Food Processing Food Safety Management” Awareness programme on Carrier Prospects and Business Opportunities in Food processing jointly organized by National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship Management, Haryana, IICPT, Tanjavur, Ministry of Food processing Industries, Government of India and Oxford College, Bangalore on 5th and 6th of
01.2009 - 01.2010
- Organizer of Event “BIOMIC”
Education
M Sc - Microbiology
Dayanandasagar College of Biological Sciences
01.2009 - 01.2011
B.Sc - Chemistry, Zoology & Microbiology
VV Puram College of Science
01.2006 - 01.2009
Accomplishments
- Development of new product in Bakery, Confectionary & Beverages
- Good in the Application of Bakery (Sweet Goods, Breads & Biscuits)
- Finished product parameters analysis
- Data analysis and interpretation Microbiological Test Analysis for quality assurance
- Raw material analysis
- Analysis of different parameters using instruments such as Volume analyzer, pH meter, Visco meter, water activity meter, moisture meter & Texture profile analyzer of baked products
- Studied interaction of on Hydrocolloids, emulsifiers & Enzymes
- Sensory analysis of the finished products
- Shelf life studies of Improvers & Premixes.
Timeline
Manager
Bundl Technologies Pvt Ltd (Swiggy)
01.2022 - Current
Assistant Manager
AB Mauri India Pvt Ltd
03.2019 - 12.2021
Head- New Product Development
PELLAGIC FOOD INGREDIENTS PVT LTD
02.2017 - 03.2019
Technical Manager
VINTOP PRODUCTS PVT LTD
07.2015 - 01.2017
Quality Assurance Officer
NILGIRIS DAIRY FARM PVT LTD, FUTURE CONSUMER ENTERPRISES LTD
11.2012 - 06.2015
01.2010 - 01.2011
01.2009 - 01.2010
M Sc - Microbiology
Dayanandasagar College of Biological Sciences
01.2009 - 01.2011
B.Sc - Chemistry, Zoology & Microbiology
VV Puram College of Science
01.2006 - 01.2009
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