ZAHID IQBAL ZIA
Food Expert
Summary
Executive Leadership: Business Development, R&D, Marketing, New Green Field Projects , Supply Chain and Production Operations. Experienced Manager and technical Professional with expertise in building teams, improving cross-functional environments and delivering new innovative products. 36 years’ professional experience in international food industry with exposure of ideation to marketing. Strong Experience in multinational and multicultural environment. Proven ability to immediately grasp ideas as per customer’s needs. Expert in analysing and controlling all aspects of supply chain operations to reduce costs and improve profits. Successful New product Development Projects launched in various industries included Confectionery, Chocolates, Traditional Bakery items, Biscuit, cookies, cracker, Snacks, Spices, Chewing gum, Fruit & Vegetable preserved products, Fruit juices & Drinks, Sauces, Pickles, Powder Drinks, sugar free, Herbal & medicated food supplements. Developed more than 3000 food items and effectively communicated concepts that was compatible with the customer’s need. Major Achievements and Successful New Projects Rapid growth of Pran Food Bangladesh with NPD of five new projects and 60 new items under my supervision on multiple locations included Pran Snacks, Spices, Confectionery, Beverages, Fruit & vegetable products. (Pran foods is a largest company in south Asia with >300 billion$ turnover). B2B Marketing support to SMC: Achieved more than two-times business growth through customer focus innovation and make top one flavour & food ingredients company of Pakistan. Green Field Operation in Gourmet Foods Lahore -Confectionery and Grocery- installed new projects within hundred days, delivered 30 new products. Green & Brown Field operations in Haque Group Dhaka, installed new projects, biscuit plant, pineapple processing and confectionery projects with 32 new products. Installed new Project, completed automated confectionery project Choco Tec in Asian Food (Mayfair), Achieved good productivity with eight new confectionery products Installed new Project of Biscuit & Soft cookies. Developed five new products. New project of Jam Filled Marshmallows in Ismail Industries (Candyland), Developed 30 new products. To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.
Overview
29
29
years of professional experience
Work History
Deputy General Manager R&D (Group Head)
Ismail Industries Ltd
03.2020 - Current
- Existing Job
- Developed more than 70 new items both for local and export marketing included Bisca,
- Jammin Jam filled Marshmallows, Éclair, Chut Pat candy, Chews, Lolly Pops ,Bubble gum,
- Jelly, saved more than 200 million PKR in various projects included Rework utilization, improved Recipes, Replaced ingredients, in home production of Condensed milk and system improvement
- Developed 3rd party Mondeleze Chocolate Moro for regular production,
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- Launched 60 New export & local products
- Relaunched with economical recipes of products those were stopped due to high costing.
Senior Manager, D Group Head, Manager Process Improvement
Mayfair – Asian Food Industries, Biscuit
Lahore
01.2017 - 01.2019
- I am responsible here for Research & Development for biscuit and confectionery
- Coordination with sale and marketing to achieve the NPD targets both for local & export Marketing
- Developed and executed more than 60 products included Biscuit, Candy, Éclair, Toffee, Jelly and bubble gum
- Improved costing with cost effective project through ingredients, process improvement & helpful to maintained consistent quality
- English
01.2017 - 11.2017
- Continuous improvement, New Product Development, Research & Development for New projects Improve SOP of Sooper soft cookies, Rio sandwich biscuit and save money through process improvement.
Manager Productions and R&D
Mayfair – Asian Food Industries
Lahore
11.2013 - 12.2016
- I am responsible here for production planning, Research & Development and coordination with sale and marketing to achieve the production targets both for local & export sales
- Coordinated and managed all operations including corrective and preventive maintenance, TPM, Continuous system improvement
- Achieved maximum production targets in the confectionery history of Asian foods through teamwork
- NPD:
- Started Ten New products within one year and planned more than ten products in pipeline for next year
- Installed New Choco Tec plant for milk toffee, Éclair and candy
- Installed new Jelly Plant, Developed 20 new products on both plants.
Manager Projects (Project Head
Gourmet Foods
Lahore
09.2010 - 10.2013
- Green Field Operations: Installed New Confectionery & Grocery Projects (Candy, Toffee, Chocolate Éclair,
- Bubble Gum, Fruit Jam, Tomato ketchup, Hot Sauces, Red Syrup, and Fruit Juices)
- Completed all operations
- Successfully, Started Production of more than 30 items within six months, and started successful marketing with new staff
- Initiated innovations for new marketing team and achieved given targets
- Helpful in NPD for
- Snacks, Dairy and Beverages
- Make a new setup of Sales & Marketing for Confectionery and Grocery sales
- Achieved Sales Targets as well as introduced new products completed targets of grocery products for Gourmet
- Bakeries.
General Manager Supply Chain
Naveed Enterprises
Faisalabad
01.2007 - 01.2010
- Responsible for all Green Field & Brown filed operations as Head of supply chain management
- I have increased Production 5 times more through process, system and machinery improvements.Green Field operations : Installed two Ball Gum Lines with five new gum products
- Installed Lolly pop lines with 8 new flavours
- Installed New Stick Gum Plant
- Improved recipes of export products, make profitable those products in loss through variable ingredients
- Implemented ISO-9000 and HACCP as a Management head
- Innovated to higher management for Starting Retail marketing setup and launched successfully new marketing setup
- Resulting increased Production & Sale Five times more
- Started training classes for effective Quality Control and continuous improvement, resulting achieved quality standards, and success in increased production
- Controlled all the factory 600 staff & workers as a Head of Factory management team
- Research & Development for waste control, Bi-products, cost control, developed more than 50 new products and successfully innovated for export marketing and achieved target of 36 containers/month
- Business Development / R & D Group Head Pran Foods Bangladesh (Confectionery, Biscuit, Cake, wafer, Snacks, Fruit Juices, Grocery, Spices (More than 300 food products)
Manager Marketing
SMC, Standard Manufacturing Co
Lahore
01.2006 - 01.2007
- B2B Marketing of Food Flavours & Ingredients -
- Designed and developed flavour application lab, equipped with master plan for preparation of applied samples and flavour evaluations
- Handled customer inquiries and complaints, identified problems and solved them successfully (More than 300 Customers in Pakistan and abroad)
- Increased B2B sales more than 30%
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- Demonstrated efficient and consistent technical support & established strong business relations with customers
- Dealt tactfully with difficult customers
- Analysed customer’s requirements for future products
- Assisted customers in finding a specific product and achieved 80% business through product development and good business relationship
- Make innovation plans for marketing growth, resulted to make S M C top-1 flavouring company in Pakistan
Pran Group, Pran Foods Ltd
01.2003 - 08.2006
- PRAN is currently producing more than 300 food products under 10 different categories i.e
- Juices, Drinks, Mineral Water, Bakery, Carbonated beverages, Snacks, Culinary, Confectionery, Biscuits & Dairy
- The company has adopted ISO 9001 as a guiding principle of its management system
- Which ensures that only the best quality products are reaches to the consumers table across the Globe
- Responsible for Green and Brown filed operations in Confectionery, snacks, Biscuit, Spices Juices, and beverages projects
- Developed more than 120 products both for export and local market
- Green Field Operations: Installed new Deposit Candy Project and start production successfully
- Started New
- Plant for Lolly pop production with improved system and make this project profitable
- Installed New Bubble
- Gum & Ball Gum Projects and started production successfully
- I have improved the system and controlled the process scrape & wastage 18 % to 1% and make this project profitable Improved and developed new snacks projects, extruded snacks, fried potato cracker, chanachur , Nimco, Peanuts (Badam Bhaja), Mong Dal, increased production 100% within one year( 10 tons to 20 tons daily)
- Developed Milk products (Butter, Desi
- Ghee, Yogurt, Flavoured Milk
- Improved Milk quality
- Started New Spices project
- Develop 20 various formulated Spices Mix and successfully launched in local and export market
- Improve the Mango Pulping system, increased output (Yield of Mango pulp) and saved money
- Developed new Pulping system for Guava pulp, Banana pulp in Natore Factory Bangladesh
- Improved Vegetables Preservation for Pickling, control waste 20 % to 1 %
- Developed new Pickles & Hot Sauces
- Developed & Improved Instant Powder Drink and successfully launched in four flavours
- Formulated & improved more than 120 products Increased 40% more production within six months for fast moving market requirement
- Make all SOP’s and Quality manual.
Manager
Productions, Haque food Industries Ltd
Dhaka
11.1999 - 12.2002
- Designed, developed and improved 32 new products
- Green Field Operations : Installed PLC Controlled New
- Biscuit Plant under the Supervision of German & Austrian Engineers (Haas Hacrona) and successfully started Productions of Biscuit, Cookies & Crackers
- Managed a staff of five sections (Biscuit, wafer, chocolate,
- Confectionery ,Snacks, grocery & Fruit Canning,)
- Directed for daily production schedules and managed work force under my supervision (5 assistant managers, 9 supervisors, and more than 700 workers)
- Analysed and improved departmental operation and procedures resulting in increased overall productivity and production
- Designed & directed new Quality Control & RD lab and implemented TQM Program effectively
- Management Representative for ISO-9000
- Make SOP, s &
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- Designed policies and procedures to coordinate the supply chain (purchase, sale & marketing) and improved overall productivity
- Increased two times more production of candy, toffee, biscuit, wafer, chocolate, tomato ketchup, jam, jelly and pickles
- Start Scrape Control program in Wafer & biscuit Sections and start Bi-products and Productive usage of Scrape and make it profitable
- Saved >80million BD Tk through scrape control and process improvement.
Quality Control + R&D Executive
Mitchell’s Fruit Farms Ltd
11.1983 - 12.1990
- Products : 150 SKU ,Confectionery , Chocolates , Fruit Juices, jam ,jelly, Marmalade,
- Fruit & Vegetable Canned preserved Products, Pickles, Tomato Ketchup, Hot Sauces,
- Fruit Syrup , Fruit Vinegar
- Learned and installed Confectionery &chocolate manufacturing plant, Toffee, HBC candy plant,
- Learned plant & manufacturing procedures by German, Swedish & British engineers
- Supervise, control and Monitor production lines & quality control system
- Helpful to my seniors for R&D work and helpful to develop new Products
- Appointed as Coordinator to foreign technical experts for product development and continuous improvement
- Introduced forty variants of candy, toffees, chocolate Bars and 60 farm products included jam, juices, squash, sauces, fruit & vegetable canned items.
Education
M.S (Master of Science) - Total Quality Management
PIQC / Superior
Master’s - undefined
Newport Institute of Communications &
Economics
PGD - undefined
Food Sciences Modern Institute of Informatics & Management
Diploma - Food Technology Management
National institute of management sciences
Diploma (PGD) - Production & Operations Management
Modern Institute of Informatics & Management
SDCP - EMHI Food & Beverages
Diploma - Food Nutrition
Modern Institute of Informatics & Management, Allama Iqbal open University
Diploma - Herbal Medical Sciences
Hikma College
Skills
Excellent managerial techniques
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Timeline
Deputy General Manager R&D (Group Head)
Ismail Industries Ltd
03.2020 - Current
Senior Manager, D Group Head, Manager Process Improvement
Mayfair – Asian Food Industries, Biscuit
01.2017 - 01.2019
01.2017 - 11.2017
Manager Productions and R&D
Mayfair – Asian Food Industries
11.2013 - 12.2016
Manager Projects (Project Head
Gourmet Foods
09.2010 - 10.2013
General Manager Supply Chain
Naveed Enterprises
01.2007 - 01.2010
Manager Marketing
SMC, Standard Manufacturing Co
01.2006 - 01.2007
Pran Group, Pran Foods Ltd
01.2003 - 08.2006
Manager
Productions, Haque food Industries Ltd
11.1999 - 12.2002
Quality Control + R&D Executive
Mitchell’s Fruit Farms Ltd
11.1983 - 12.1990
M.S (Master of Science) - Total Quality Management
PIQC / Superior
Master’s - undefined
Newport Institute of Communications &
Economics
PGD - undefined
Food Sciences Modern Institute of Informatics & Management
Diploma - Food Technology Management
National institute of management sciences
Diploma (PGD) - Production & Operations Management
Modern Institute of Informatics & Management
SDCP - EMHI Food & Beverages
Diploma - Food Nutrition
Modern Institute of Informatics & Management, Allama Iqbal open University
Diploma - Herbal Medical Sciences
Hikma College
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