Amit Thatte

About Amit Thatte

Professional with more than 18 years of post-PhD experience spanning across Technology transfer in Pharmaceutical Bulk drugs (one year), performing a wide spectrum of roles (Team lead, technical project lead, Product and Process Development, Innovation Management) and leading projects (Innovation, renovation, value, and quality improvement) across product formats within the Nutrition & Ice cream R&D physically across geographies (North Asia, South-East Asia and India). Also, a Global product/process owner for SAP PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) and Program Lead for Fragrance and Flavour Digital with experience in design & deploy of Digital tools.

Experience

1. Global Process Owner Plm Program Lead Fragrance Digital

   Unilever

   Jul 2019 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Scope and key responsibilitiesLead the product/process ownership and vision for multiple functional areas in SAP PLM like specifications, recipes and business rules & workflow approvals.Build, maintain a network of R&D SMEs and collaborate with them, R&D IT Dev.Ops partners, IT system vendors, PMOs to deliver designs that support, enhance, and improve business processes and user experience. Proactively develop proposals to solve pain-points and problems raised by users.Drive the end-to-end Fragrance & flavor specification integration with suppliers and support the overall agenda of connected tools/platforms.Support the R&D Digital transformation and \"Pride in data\" activities through change management and Explore the application of machine learning and other benefit driven technology initiatives on specification and recipe data.Some key successes.Project to move to a customized SAP PLM Fiori delivering key business benefits of User Interface simplification, ease of data access, personalization, elimination of repetitive tasks and reduction in number of clicks etc. resulting into freeing up time for R&D users to focus on core innovation activities.PLM changes for Product Regulatory compliance thereby delivering a PLM system that is fit for purpose by facilitating and ensuring that all product designs are checked for defined safety guidelines ultimately helping the company ensure that products reaching consumers meet the product safety standards.ePLM Fragrance and Flavour program enabling an automated flow of specification data, efficiency in the process, less manual interventions, reduction in time taken to complete and ultimately faster and improved data flow and quality.AI-Machine Learning application enabling the “Right first time” specification via assisted data entry for users, dashboard for super users and category leads to assess overall data accuracy, right first-time statistics and the accuracy of the machine learning predictions.

Education

• Institute Of Chemical Technology (formerly U.D.C.T)

  Certificate program in Chemical Technology Management, Chemical Technology Management

  2003 — 2005

• Institute Of Chemical Technology (formerly U.D.C.T )

  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Chemical Technology

  2002 — 2007

• University of Mumbai

  Bachelors in Engineering, Chemical Engineering

  1995 — 1999

• Institute Of Chemical Technology (formerly U.D.C.T)

  Masters in Chemical Engineering, Chemical Engineering

  2000 — 2002