Kalai Selvi K

Launched products: RTE extruded snacks, Multigrain masala oats Current products: Diabetic atta, Diabetic Healthmix

• Responsible for driving innovation projects from scoping to commercialization to achieve nutritional profiles, product attributes, and cost alignment with design briefs.
• Responsible for delivering formulation design for innovation, renovation & cost reduction projects.
• Responsible for developing products at lab scale, pilot scale, process optimization and scaling up to factory with appropriate technology & documentation transfer.
• Responsible for specification of process, packaging materials, and Quality Assurance documents for raw materials & finished goods aligned with statutory regulatory compliances for products & process.
• Coordinated shelf-life studies to establish shelf-life of new products and reworking through formulation to enhance shelf-life.
• Conducted competitor benchmarking by identifying market trends to analyze product composition, claims, pricing, and nutrition for market differentiation.
• Responsible for vendor identification, ingredient sourcing, driving cost-effective solutions for innovative products.
• Coordinated with cross functional teams for procurement, manufacturing, quality, artwork designing, marketing and packaging & build strong networks for smooth functioning.
• Responsible for preparation, compilation of labeling documents & approval of labels for innovation & other products ensuring regulatory compliance.
• Responsible for preparation, compilation of labeling documents & finalization of label artwork for innovation & other products ensuring it meets the regulatory compliance.
• Responsible for addition/modification of innovation products, handling customer complaints, filing of yearly annual returns, renewal in the existing FSSAI License.

Products: Extruded RTE snacks

• Conducted competitor benchmarking on nutritional composition, ingredients and physicochemical properties.
• Responsible for creation of process flow design for extruded snacks.
• Responsible for finalizing equipment specifications design & procurement of equipment's.
• Successfully completed setting up of extrusion pilot plant line.
• Gained in-depth knowledge of extrusion technology and other unit operations involved in extruded snack production.
• Designed and conducted pilot plant testing, process optimization and converted developed formulas from pilot scale to production scale.
• Developed raw material specifications, finished product specifications & process SOP aligned with regulatory compliance and product brief.
• Coordinated with cross-functional teams for procurement, manufacturing, quality, packaging, and conducting trials.