Apoorva Bharadwaj
Melbourne,VIC
Summary
Motivated product developer with 3 years of experience in food manufacturing industry with a vision of gaining knowledge about innovative and sustainable food production. Detail oriented team player with experience in new product development, collaborating with cross-functional teams to bring new product to market from trial to commercialization. Seeking an opportunity to provide value contribution to a dynamic company that offers growth in technical knowledge and management skills.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Product Developer
Good Food Partners
11.2023 - Current
- Cross-functional collaboration with sales, marketing, manufacturing, technical and stage gate teams to meet the product brief
- Developing and optimizing new product recipes considering ingredient functionality, nutritional claims and cost-efficiency
- Owning end to end product documentations e.g. formulations, Foodworks portal, product specifications, trial documents and internal documents
- Working with technical teams to ensure FSANZ compliance standards
- Working with procurement team to identify new ingredients and products from local and international markets to develop a winning product
- Undertaking kitchen and factory trials to identify potential risks, making improvements for effective commercialisation of product
- Coordinating sensory evaluations to understand the functionality of ingredients in the formulation
- Liaising with finance team to develop costing for NPD projects and helping in updating the master data portal Pronto
- Supporting during commissioning of machinery, helping with productions and ongoing processes and product improvements
- Working with internal teams and coordinating trial plans, trials, first production and hosting customers coming onsite across multiple NPD projects initiatives
- Helping in optimising existing products through continuous improvement initiatives
Food Technologist
Roma Foods
04.2022 - 11.2023
- Participating in scoping process to develop new products and implementing value improvements for existing products
- Liaising with technical and functional teams such as quality, commercial, marketing, production, planning and procurement to deliver customer requirements and explore category opportunities through product innovation
- Undertaking responsibility of fortnightly cross functional project meeting and coordinating with internal and external stakeholders
- Formulating new products and undertaking bench top trials, sensory evaluations, packaging trials and production trials
- Coordinating with finance teams and developing initial product costing
- Updating SAP master data with new and existing product information
- Ensuring all technical aspects of labelling including checking artwork, making claims, Country of Origin and Nutritional Information Panel (including US NIP) according to FSANZ regulations
- Developing and maintaining internal documentations
- Experience in extrusion science and working with cereals, pasta, crispbread, and bakery products in allergen free manufacturing environment
QA and NPD Intern
ITAL Food Groups Pty Ltd
07.2021 - 11.2021
- Monitoring and performing daily quality control checks monitoring CCP, GMP walks, maintaining retention samples, reviewing daily production records
- Assessing quality of finished products by sensory, visual, moisture, pH analysis and water activity checks
- Managing calibration, product non-conformances, assessing root cause, issuing corrective actions, memos and maintaining documentation
- Conducting internal bag audits, pest control audits and assisting quality manager in external audits (ALDI and Coles CFMSR audit 2021)
- Developing product information form, product specifications and visual master specifications for ALDI, Coles, ITAL products and new projects
- Developing ingredient declaration for new recipe, nutrition information panel, allergen declaration (VITAL), Country of Origin and labelling
Membership Officer
Crunch Fitness
10.2020 - 12.2022
- Providing assistance in developing, managing, and delivering membership programs to new and existing customers and organizing in-house events
- Handled customer grievances with developed interpersonal and problem-solving skills
- Assisted in visual merchandising, achieving KPI's and store administration
- Processing payments for new members or renewals and reviewing data input to CRM
- Training and supervising new and existing casual staff
Education
Master of Science - Food Science And Technology
RMIT University
12.2021
Bachelor of Science - Biotechnology
RTMN University
07.2019
Skills
- Project management
- Detail oriented
- Analytical problem solving
- MS 365
- Pronto
- SAP
Timeline
Product Developer
Good Food Partners
11.2023 - Current
Food Technologist
Roma Foods
04.2022 - 11.2023
QA and NPD Intern
ITAL Food Groups Pty Ltd
07.2021 - 11.2021
Membership Officer
Crunch Fitness
10.2020 - 12.2022
Bachelor of Science - Biotechnology
RTMN University
Master of Science - Food Science And Technology
RMIT University
Similar Profiles
Ali Aullah NazariAli Aullah Nazari
Machine Operator at Good Food PartnersMachine Operator at Good Food Partners
Sivranjeet SinghSivranjeet Singh
Quality Control Analyst at Nestle Good Food Good LifeQuality Control Analyst at Nestle Good Food Good Life
Morgan CarhartMorgan Carhart
Barista at Good Earth Employee, GOOD EARTH NATURAL FOOD STOREBarista at Good Earth Employee, GOOD EARTH NATURAL FOOD STORE
John LatuilaJohn Latuila
Carpenter at Jarvis McCleanCarpenter at Jarvis McClean
JOANNE McMANUSJOANNE McMANUS
Legal Assistant at Madgwicks LawyersLegal Assistant at Madgwicks Lawyers