Job Description:

Role & Responsibilities:

- Develop and implement short - , medium - and long - term operational strategies for all manufacturing and supply units of WICC, aligned with the overall business objectives and growth plans.

- Lead and oversee operations across multiple manufacturing units, ensuring efficient utilization of manpower, machinery, materials and other resources.

- Drive production and throughput targets across units and ensure timely achievement of production and shipment requirements while maintaining quality, GMP, food safety and customer standards.

- Develop and monitor capacity plans, production plans and resource requirements to support current operations and future business growth.

- Identify opportunities to improve productivity, capacity utilization, operational efficiency and overall manufacturing performance across units.

- Monitor and control production costs, wastage, spillage, rework, downtime and other operational losses, with a focus on continuous cost optimization.

- Prepare and monitor operational budgets and cost plans for the respective units and ensure operations are carried out within approved budgets.

- Ensure effective coordination between Production, Quality, Maintenance, Supply Chain, Purchase, Finance, HR and other support functions for smooth and uninterrupted operations.

- Ensure compliance with all applicable statutory, regulatory, food safety, quality, GMP, customer and company requirements across all units.

- Establish, monitor and review key operational KPIs for the respective units and drive corrective and preventive actions wherever performance gaps are identified.

- Conduct periodic performance reviews of individual units and identify operational gaps, risks and improvement opportunities, ensuring timely corrective actions.

- Drive continuous improvement initiatives, process optimization and best practices across all manufacturing units and facilitate sharing of best practices between units.

- Ensure effective implementation and adherence to company policies, SOPs, systems and operational standards.

Preferred Candidate Profile:

- BE/BTECH (Mech) with exp as Production/ Manufacturing / QA/QC/ PPC/ Food products/ FMCG.

- Strong leadership and multi - unit operations management skills.

- Excellent strategic planning, decision - making and problem - solving abilities.

- Strong focus on productivity, cost optimization, efficiency and continuous improvement.

- Excellent people management, communication and cross - functional coordination skills.

- Result - oriented, accountable and commercially conscious approach with the ability to manage operations under pressure.