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Gurleen Kaur Bhatia

Career Objective

To acquire skills and knowledge in product development while aiming towards higher growth and better prospects for the company through my competency.

Area of Interest

Innovation, Product development, Process & Technology, Material Science & Quality Assurance.

Skillset

Thorough understanding of NPD process.

Project Management.

Value Engineering.

Well versed with Analytical methods for foods.

Time management and leadership skills.

Self -belief and optimistic approach.

Adaptable & quick learning abilities.

Professional Experience

A. From August’ 08 – Till date

As an Assistant Manager-Extrusion for PepsiCo India Holdings Pvt. Ltd, Frito Lay Division, R&D Centre, Gurgaon.

Work Profile:

1. Responsible for festive launches of extruded products for east and west regions taking inspiration from local cuisines, meeting target consumer scores and delivering planned volumes.

2. Lead core productivity initiatives for extruded products targeting parity consumer scores versus control.

3. Lead texture analysis for new products to feed data for product development, competition products for bench marking and market samples for quality compliance.

4. Lead RVA analysis of raw materials - rice, corn and gram meal used in extruded products to understand the effect on run ability

5. Responsible for proactively building product innovation pipeline for the extruded category.

6. Support quality compliance and manufacturing of design of extruded product for periodic review.

7. Lead NPD projects for traditional extruded products through consumer research/insights driven development leading to target consumer scores and delivery of planned variant volumes.

8. Lead productivity initiatives for traditional extruded products along with cross functional teams by re-engineering product formulation.

9. Responsible for product design improvement feeding into the quality of products balancing the consumer likeability, alienation factor and higher volume delivery simultaneously.

10. Responsible for evaluation of new sites and thereafter validation of current traditional extruded products ensuring replication of product design

11. Co-ordinate with new production sites to deliver new regional traditional extruded products to counter competition ensuring quality compliance.

12. Responsible for designing shelf life studies for new products for extruded category

13. Generate research brief & samples for consumer research

14. Support consumer research team for methodologies, result interpretation and correlating data to development.

15. Support seasoning development for new products by meeting action standards of cost and consumer research scores and delivery of annual operating plan volumes.

B. From April’ 07 – July 2008

As a Junior Research Associate for ITC Foods, R&D Centre at Bangalore.

Work Profile:

1. Analysis of various confections - Hard Boiled Candy, Éclairs, Deposits & Lozenges for different Physical, Chemical & Organoleptic quality parameters.

2. Rating of the confectionery production units in terms of quality as a part of Product Quality Rating System for competitors and ITC’s confections in various parameters.

3. Conduct Reproducibility & repeatability study to find instrument variation & appraiser variation.

4. Involved in Analysis & Method Validation of new products (Chewing gum & Lacto).

5. Provide technical support from Quality during trials of new products.

6. Train new Manufacturing Executives in Quality Assurance & Systems.

7. Documentation & Reporting of the analysis.

8. Audits at various production units across India to ensure Compliance with Standard Protocols.

9. Train chemists at production units for analysis & basic sensory of the products.

10. Involved in setting up Quality Control Lab in new production units.

C. From July’ 06 – March’ 07

Quality Assurance Executive at Excelsior Food & Chemical Industries at New Delhi

Work Profile:

1. Involved in customized new product development like Pizza toppings for Dominos, Pizza Sauce, Culinary pastes and Sea Buckthorn Juice.

2. Analysis for different quality parameters of Canned products like Curried Vegetables, Fruits in Sugar Syrup, Red Paprika & Vegetable in Brine and Bottled products like Sauces and Culinary pastes.

3. Documentation and Reporting of Analysis.

Qualifications

M. Sc. in Food Technology from Guru Jambheshwar University, Hissar. Passed in 2006 with 78%.

B. A. Sc. in Food Technology from Bhaskaracharya College of Applied Sciences (Delhi University). Passed in 2004 with 73%.

Industrial Training

Industrial training as a part M.Sc. (Food Technology)

Centre for Analysis, Research & Training, New Delhi (June – July 2005)

As a part of B. A. Sc (Food Technology)

Parle Food Products Private Ltd, Bahadurgarh (May – June 2004)

Enrich Agro Food Products Ltd, Gurgaon (May – June 2003)

Projects

Effects of bleaching agents on the colour of Tofu.

Comparative study of various flora and brands of Honey.

Development of Soy Fortified Biscuits.

Awards & Achievements:

Winner of Frito Idol award in first quarter 2010.

Delivered 6 % cost savings on RM in Lehar portfolio in 2010.

Delivered 7 new products under “Value” portfolio at new site in West market in 2010.

Received the “Outstanding employee of the department” award at ITC R&D for the year 2007.

100% Scholarship for the Class 11th & 12th in S.D Public School, Punjabi Bagh.

Received thanks giving letter from Prime Minister’s Office of India for contributions towards Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund.

Co-curricular activities

Leading HIV/AIDS awareness agenda of PepsiCo from R&D for 2011.

Won 2nd prize in Seminar competition organized by Guru Jambheshwar University in the year 2005

Won 1st prize in Poster competition organized by Department of Food Technology, Guru Jambheshwar University in the year 2004

Winner at various extempore and speech competitions at PUC level.

Personal Information

Gender : Female

Marital Status : Married

Date of Birth : 19th June 1983

Linguistic Proficiency : English and Hindi

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