Sameer Singh Suhail
Dairy And Food Specialist
Pune
Summary
Insightful Food Professional with experience directing and improving operations through effective employee motivational strategies and strong policy enforcement. Proficient in best practices, market trends and regulatory requirements of industry operations. Talented leader with analytical approach to business planning and day-to-day problem-solving.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certifications
Work History
Portfolio Manager
Tetra Pak India Pvt Limited
Pune
06.2022 - Current
- Support MC in selling Key Component solutions, drive and develop Key Components (KC) business together with Market Company (MC) team, in line with global strategy
- Actively participate in customer management process. Understand customer and create and convey solutions together with market company
- Promote, market, quote and sell production solutions and services in close cooperation with market company.
- Work closely together with KC teams supporting them in business development, sales and marketing.
- Drive implementation and improvement of global KC strategy.
- Inform and train MC and Channel Partners in Category/Product applications and product portfolio.
- Increased KC sales Business by more than 10 % on YOY basis and Channel Partner sales business by 40 %.
Team Lead Quality & Safety
Tetra Pak India Limited
Pune
06.2019 - 05.2022
- Drive actions to improve quality maturity of Project Centre.
- Coached team members in techniques necessary to complete job tasks
- Drive continuous improvement actions.
- Participate to Quality Governance.
- Follow up on deployment of quality plan.
- Deploy group quality methodologies and tools e.g., PSM, WCM.
- Lead/support issue resolution activities
Senior Executive
Kaira District Co-operative Milk Producers’ Union (Amul),
Punjab
11.2015 - 06.2019
- Streamed line daily operational activity of plant to achieve timely supply of pasteurized milk to market and maintaining quality standards.
- Preparing Monthly milk requirement schedule with inputs from market, past trends to ensure uninterrupted supply of milk and milk products.
- Increased milk handling capacity of plant by 50% and yearly increase in sales volume by 15%.
- Managing Maintenance schedule without impacting production capacity and regular supply of milk & milk products.
- Initiated small group activities in order to build Continuous Improvement culture within team and promoted Kaizen.
Food Safety Quality and Regulatory Manager
Cargill India Pvt Limited
Pune
01.2015 - 11.2015
- Developing culture of Food Safety and Quality Assurance across plant by activities such as Food Safety training.
- Preparing, and implementing road maps from QC to QA mode.
- Cultivating culture towards Food Safety among all employees.
- Managing Customer Audits & External Audits.
- Maintaining FSSAI regulatory standards & FSMS requirements.
Quality Assurance Manager
Almarai
Riyadh
12.2010 - 12.2014
- Implementation of Food Safety Management System at CPP-2 via HACCP plan, Conducting Internal Audits, CCP and OPRP validation, GMP Audit, AIB certification, PRP Verification and Integrated Pest Management.
- Accomplished Quality KPI of 100 % FTR (First Time Release) for Fresh Dairy & Juice products and 99 % FTR for Long life & Cheese product during past two years. Managing Consumer and Customer Complaint Management and have achieved 30 % reduction in CPM for Fresh Juice & Dairy, Long Life & Cheese Product.
- Worked with Operational Excellence team in increasing Fresh juice filling capacity from 0.6 million per day to 1.2 million per day and maintaining 100 % FTR.
Research and Development & Quality System Manager
Pioneer Industries Private Limited
Pathankot
10.2008 - 11.2010
- Headed R&D study and development on Hydrogenated Wheat Gluten
- Coordinated studies on Bran Fractionation and prepared Project’s brief.
- Implemented Food Safety Management System in Factory.
Education
Bachelor of Dairy Technology - Dairy Science
SMC, College of Dairy Science
Anand, India 09.1997 - 11.2001
Skills
Food Safety & Quality Management System
Certification
Certified in Thermal Process Validation; DWC Food Tech
Timeline
Portfolio Manager
Tetra Pak India Pvt Limited
06.2022 - Current
Team Lead Quality & Safety
Tetra Pak India Limited
06.2019 - 05.2022
Senior Executive
Kaira District Co-operative Milk Producers’ Union (Amul),
11.2015 - 06.2019
Food Safety Quality and Regulatory Manager
Cargill India Pvt Limited
01.2015 - 11.2015
Quality Assurance Manager
Almarai
12.2010 - 12.2014
Research and Development & Quality System Manager
Pioneer Industries Private Limited
10.2008 - 11.2010
Bachelor of Dairy Technology - Dairy Science
SMC, College of Dairy Science
09.1997 - 11.2001
Certified in Thermal Process Validation; DWC Food Tech
Certified in Advance HACCP for ISO 22000; Assure Quality
Certified in Advance ISO 22000: Verification; Assure Quality
Certified in Almarai Lean Initiative Program: Almarai Company
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