Aug 2023 – May 2024 · 9 mos

Dec 2021 – Aug 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Enhancing in-house Order Management System to automate and optimize processes.

Apr 2021 – Nov 2021 · 7 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

Apr 2020 – Jun 2020 · 2 mos · India

• The project involved running diagnostics through secondary research for select categories (Dairy, Personal Care and
• Non-alcoholic Bev) in the Consumer Products space across various countries. The diagnostics included category
• landscaping, competition landscaping along with identification of the key trends in the market. Key research findings
• included:
• ✓ 16 personal care product concepts to drive growth for prospective clients across 5 countries by analyzing consumer trends
• ✓ Category landscape assessing Covid-19 impact on consumption of nonalcoholic beverages and emerging channel preferences
• ✓ ~3 sustainable & user-friendly packaging formats for dairy (RTD Milk & yogurt) products to align with changing consumer lifestyles

Jul 2018 – Jun 2019 · 11 mos

• ▪ Recognizing the potential and skills, appointed as Sr. Officer, a level plus confirmation relative to Jr. Officer as awarded to peers from 12 Months probation as Trainee.
• ▪ Crafted pitch decks for 10+ clients post financial, product, marketing campaign and emerging trends analysis
• ▪ Managed portfolio worth 6 Crores & handled 10+ clients as a Product Officer of Syndets - Synthetic Bathing bar
• ▪ Supervised 20+ client development projects by co-ordinating with Product Manager of Blends, TBB & Syndets
• ▪ Designed a new product launch strategy having potential > 5000 MT per year in home care speciality segment
• ▪ Performed segmentation of B2B clients post analysis of product claims, marketing campaigns & product pricing
• ▪ Designed marketing communication for different TGs by highlighting most valuable USP of product to segment
• ▪ Generated 250+ MT per year speciality product business by developing formulations and tapping clients’ needs
• ▪ Coordinated with Global Personal Care leaders like Henkel, Unilever, ITC, and Marico for product development

Jul 2017 – Jun 2018 · 11 mos

• Formulated rinse-off and leave-on personal care products such as shampoo, body wash, hand wash, transparent soaps, ,creams, lotions, micellar water, hair styling gel etc
• Synthesized surfactants such as sulfates, betaines, glycol distearate, fatty alkanolamide, sulfosuccinate, sarcosinate, and glutamate, intermediates such as lauroyl chloride, and Octocrylene
• Assisted global FMCGs like Reckitt Benckiser, Henkel, Himalaya, ITC, and Marico for product development
• Hands-on experience on instruments such as GC, HPLC, Diastron, Corneometer, Tewameter, Tensiometer etc.
• Spearheaded 20+ client development projects and generated 250+ MT/year business of speciality products
• Successfully conceptualized and commercialized a natural, propylene-glycol free, and sulphate-free version of Transparent Bathing Bar
• Repositioned a high-active surfactant blend from home care to personal care portfolio
• Developed analytical methods for determining substantivity of cationic actives using UV-Spectrophotometer
• Experience in cosmetic formulation benchmarking and making formulations having same characteristics as that of benchmark
• Some of the developed products have been launched in the Indian market

May 2016 – Jul 2016 · 2 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• As a part of my curriculum I joined Marico Limited for In-Plant Training. During this tenure I worked on the project "Gelling of Oils."

May 2015 – Jun 2015 · 1 mo · Mumbai

• I worked under the guidance of Dr. Amit Pratap on the project "Synthesis and Characterisation of condensation products formed by reaction of Epichlorohydrin with Alcohols and hindered Amines."