Arvind Kumar Email & Phone Number

New Delhi, DL, IN

Bangalore

• Licious is India's first D2C Unicorn, headquartered in Bengaluru. The company operates on a farm-to-fork model, owning the entire back-end supply chain and cold chain. Key Result Areas:
• Led scientific and systematic efforts towards development of new products and improving and reformulating existing products based on customers insights and marketing brief.
• Led the preparation, review & maintenance of R&D activities and documentation like SOP, RM, PM and FG specifications as per FSMS and QSR standard. Understanding of FSSC 22000, ISO 22000, GMP, GHP, HACCP, HALAL.
• Responsible for successful technology transfer of every approved product and successful replication of lab approved product on commercial process line
• Spearheaded the preparation and review of product label in accordance with FSSAI Packaging and Labeling regulations.
• Directed the ideation based on market literature, screening, product development, Joint sensory evaluation, cooking validations and commercialization of fresh processed food products. It includes Meat and poultry.

R&D Bangalore

• Led and managed the ice cream product portfolio & formulations across all manufacturing plants.
• Leverage consumer insights to proactively plan and develop future project pipeline with cross functional team for the category.
• Headed product benchmarking & recipe development of ice cream products, drove the creation of concept samples, sensory evaluation, shelf-life study (real time and accelerated), product cost calculation and feasibility.
• Steered product development report writing, developed scale up documents, coordinated internally for sourcing of ingredients’ drove lab & pilot scale trials & headed successful commercialization
• Piloted the preparation of standard documents of raw materials, packaging materials, process, finished product; circulated the same to designated plant & QA
• Led several value optimising and strategic sourcing projects valued at approximately 15Cr saving per annum.

Corporate QA, Patparganj, Delhi

• Responsible for standardization and launch of commercial manufacturing of New Products
• Responsible for handling of customer complaints and feedback for improvement of product quality
• Responsible for conducting vendor’s audit and their product approval
• Ensured strict adherence to quality standards and identify areas of quality failures and took corrective steps to rectify the system
• Responsible for supplier development activity including Identification of supplier, conduction of audit at supplier site and their product approval
• Developed quality control standards as per FSSAI guidelines for raw materials, packaging material, Intermediate product and finished product. Effective implementation of process parameters as per SOP

Master Of Sciences, Food Technology

M Sc (Food Technology)

B.A.Sc, Food Technology

Bachelor of Applied Sciences (Food Technology)

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