Arijit Guha Mazumder (he/him)

• Lead transformation& change management • Oversee the category digital function, ensuring effective leadership and strategic direction.

Led the AMEA BGCM (Gum, Candy, Beverage & Meals) R&D organization with a strong mandate to accelerate innovation delivery and drive significant business growth. I delivered transformational results by strengthening the end-to-end innovation pipeline—expanding portfolio innovation, driving premiumization, and leading targeted rationalization and simplification programs that improved mix, margins, and consumer value. I championed superior product quality across core and non-core innovation, relentlessly improving design quality, formulation robustness, and execution excellence across multiple markets. A key part of my leadership was reshaping the innovation mindset to “outside-in,” forging deeper collaboration with consumers, suppliers, academia, and start-ups to unlock future-ready platforms and emerging technologies. In parallel, as Global Digital Lead for BGCM, I advanced the digital and AI-led product development agenda, embedding predictive models, analytics-driven decision systems, and harmonized global ways of working that elevated innovation effectiveness across twelve technical centers worldwide. I played a critical integrator role—aligning category growth strategy, digital transformation, and technical center excellence—ensuring full R&D delivery against business priorities while building long-term innovation capabilities for Mondelez.

Partner with business units in the AMEA region to lead category growth in the short term and long term across Mondelez's iconic brands in the confectionary, beverage, and meals business.

As R&D Director for Asia Middle East Africa BGCM (Beverage, Gum, Candy and Meals) category, my role is to provide technical leadership in the AMEA region category growth in the circa. US$1.8B category. It has been tremendous experiences working with wonderful global and local brands such as Stride, Halls, Clorets, Philadelphia Cheese, Sour Patch Kids, Tang, Bournvita, Stride, Trident, Dentyne, Eden and Kraft Cheddar, TNCC, Pascall, Choclairs and many wonderfully consumer loved brands.

Global Research and Development Site Director and Mondelez Global Chocolate Platform Director, Thane Technical Center Site Lead and India BU RDQ Lead. Thane Technical Site is one of the 11 global technical centers with more than 150 scientists and technologists. The center is known for its center of excellence in chocolate and beverage. The center works across the region and globe to support Innovation, margin improvement projects. In my role, I led building Chocolate growth innovation pipeline across all the Business Units and brands such as Cadbury Dairy Milk, MILKA, LACTA and led Product Quality Strategy for specific product areas for these wonderful chocolate brands. In my India BU leadership role, I provided technical and RDQ leadership to support growth agendas in the country. I also provided technical guidance to SnackFuture initiative which is creating new snacking opportunities in various business units

Lead R&D strategy for GSK Consumer Healthcare VMS portfolio to drive category growth globally

Identify, build and execute category pipeline across global markets and regions

General Manager in New Product Development, heading NPD function globally for one of the global Consumer Healthcare category. Head Technical function in various global project within this category for capacity expansion, technical innovation.

Leading innovation and new product development in powders & Biscuit category with flagship brands like 'Horlicks', 'Boost', 'Viva', 'Maltova' & their extensions Plus Horlicks, Boost and other biscuits

Consultant

Tata Business Excellence Model - Auditor of business practices - Audited Titan, Tata Communication Product Innovation and Development - Beverage Category 1. Beverage market opportunity 2. Technology lead 3. Formulation and process engineering 4. Market insights & prototype tasting 5. Project management 6. Quality compliances & standards 7. Regulatory compliance 8. External networking

Felicitated with many “GlaxoSmithKline Sprit Award” and “Business Excellence – Platinum Award & Gold Award” in successive two years for outstanding contribution Instrumental for launch and re-launch of various products like Horlicks, Horlicks Lite Biscuit, Boost, Boost Choco blast, Maltova, Viva, Biscuits, Horlicks & Boost RTD

Process engineers, Commissioning New Dairy Plant with liquid milk processing, drying and packaging capability

Design thinking & Innovation