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Claudia Bluemling
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Reading, United Kingdom
Experience
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Skills
I'm offering
Markets
United Kingdom
Language
German
Fluently
English
Fluently
Spanish
Fluently
My experience
2020 - 2020
job
Food Technologist
Do&Co.
Airline and event caterer.
Transferred with the British Airways contract in June 2020, Position will be made redundant in February 2021.
Transferred with the British Airways contract in June 2020, Position will be made redundant in February 2021.
Event
2006 - 2020
job
Food Technologist (Process Manager)
Gate Gourmet, London Heathrow.
2006 - 2020
Airline caterer to customers including British Airways, Virgin Atlantic, Cathay Pacific and Korean Airlines.
Food Technologist (Process Manager)
Member of the Safety Compliance Department. Responsible for the approval and management of supplier
specifications, the issue of allergen and nutrition reports to customers and advising on legal labelling (EU) matters within Gate Gourmet and to customers.
Role
• Responsible for the approval and management of supplier specifications, advising on legal labelling
(EU) matters within Gate Gourmet and to customers.
• Ensured compliance to legal labelling requirements for in-house and bought-in foods and ancillaries.
• Approved internal specifications and recipes to ensure Gate Gourmet Food Safety Guidelines and customer Food Policies are adhered to.
• Provided allergen information for the menus of up to 18 customer airlines.
• Calculated and issued nutrition information for the Virgin Atlantic menus.
• Overlooked the development of special meal menus. Provided constructive advice to the Development Chefs to ensure the nutritional composition is compliant to industry guidelines and legal
labelling requirements.
• Issued product briefs and provided advice for the sourcing of dietary products to the Procurement
Department.
• Provided operational support for the preparation of special meals, including staff training, issue of assembly documentation and advising on ad hoc substitutions.
Key milestones
• Successfully lead a multifunctional team to develop a supplier specification standard for Gate
Gourmet UK.
• Developed a SharePoint based supplier specification database with approval functionality, thereby
improving efficiency of the internal specification approval process.
• Key contributing member of the Gategroup Europe task force to develop and implement an IT-based
allergen management system.
• Reviewed and streamlined the nutrition declaration process and significantly reduced the time
required for creating, proof-reading and issue of nutrition reports to the customer.
• Successfully launched several special meal menus for British Airways, Virgin Atlantic and a "generic"
special meal menu for other customers.
Airline caterer to customers including British Airways, Virgin Atlantic, Cathay Pacific and Korean Airlines.
Food Technologist (Process Manager)
Member of the Safety Compliance Department. Responsible for the approval and management of supplier
specifications, the issue of allergen and nutrition reports to customers and advising on legal labelling (EU) matters within Gate Gourmet and to customers.
Role
• Responsible for the approval and management of supplier specifications, advising on legal labelling
(EU) matters within Gate Gourmet and to customers.
• Ensured compliance to legal labelling requirements for in-house and bought-in foods and ancillaries.
• Approved internal specifications and recipes to ensure Gate Gourmet Food Safety Guidelines and customer Food Policies are adhered to.
• Provided allergen information for the menus of up to 18 customer airlines.
• Calculated and issued nutrition information for the Virgin Atlantic menus.
• Overlooked the development of special meal menus. Provided constructive advice to the Development Chefs to ensure the nutritional composition is compliant to industry guidelines and legal
labelling requirements.
• Issued product briefs and provided advice for the sourcing of dietary products to the Procurement
Department.
• Provided operational support for the preparation of special meals, including staff training, issue of assembly documentation and advising on ad hoc substitutions.
Key milestones
• Successfully lead a multifunctional team to develop a supplier specification standard for Gate
Gourmet UK.
• Developed a SharePoint based supplier specification database with approval functionality, thereby
improving efficiency of the internal specification approval process.
• Key contributing member of the Gategroup Europe task force to develop and implement an IT-based
allergen management system.
• Reviewed and streamlined the nutrition declaration process and significantly reduced the time
required for creating, proof-reading and issue of nutrition reports to the customer.
• Successfully launched several special meal menus for British Airways, Virgin Atlantic and a "generic"
special meal menu for other customers.
SharePoint, Training, Procurement, Database, Management, Compliance, Sourcing, It, Safety, Support, Development, Manager, UP, Gourmet
2000 - 2005
job
Specialist
Mars UK, NOVA/Incubator Team.
innovation team to evaluate new product ideas from commercial, technical and consumer perspective,
up-scale viable ideas through co-manufacturers and integrate businesses into Mars' core business, when proven
successful.
up-scale viable ideas through co-manufacturers and integrate businesses into Mars' core business, when proven
successful.
Innovation, UP
My education
2018
-
?
n/a
MSc, N/a
MSc, N/a
1994
-
2000
University of Applied Sciences of Fulda
BSc, Food Technology
BSc, Food Technology
1988
-
1991
School for Dietitians
N/a, N/a
N/a, N/a
Liebig University
N/a, N/a
N/a, N/a
?
-
2021
University of Reading
N/a, N/a
N/a, N/a
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