Anupriya Khanka

Regional Category Manager (Global Emerging Market) @General Mills

Mumbai, IN

Provide FSQ leadership and direction through technical mastery in the areas of food safety risk mitigation, regulatory compliance, SPC, system capability, and sanitation and champion material supplier food safety and regulatory compliance.• Manage specific material categories by identifying and reducing supplier food safety and regulatory risk, providing technical category expertise, ensuring specification compliance, and assessing supplier performance; provide food safety, quality, and regulatory training with our suppliers and external GMI partners.• Conduct ingredient & packaging vendor & Warehouse audits (virtual and ~40% travel) to ensure vendor compliance with the General Mills Supplier Manuals (Domestic + International) and be responsible for follow-up to drive risk reduction for GMI.• Lead risk assessment and root cause analysis activities for issue resolution building alignment and strategy with cross functional partners and utilizing Continuous Improvement tools.• Approve and ensure accurate ingredient or Packaging specifications and resolve specification conflicts.• Partner with Sourcing to effectively manage suppliers and strategy for specific material categories.• Provide leadership for global XQM and regional XQM initiatives including but not limited to process improvements, process standardization, and team development.• Drive global processes and implement global tools/practices across GEMS markets.• Provide support for Global XQM and regional needs.• Develop and propagate raw material category expertise within GEMS region and globally; Represent region as category expertise on global XQM teams.

G. B. Pant University Of Agriculture & Technology

B. Sc (Food Tech)