Chief Manager - Strategic Planning - Chemical Industry

Responsibilities

Strategic planning Process - Work on creating 3 years long term strategic plan, to be approved by Strategy team, BLT and CEO

Strategic Projects - Ensure review of strategic projects for its timely completion

Business opportunities - Evaluating business opportunities in new products, segments, markets, expansion.

- Evaluating organic/ inorganic (acquisition/ merger) modes for expansion as opportunities.

- Evaluating / recommending new business model.

Business positioning - Reviewing competition business model and recommending alternate model. - Benchmarking study within and outside industry

- Understanding macro environment global / India & evaluate its impacts on business.

- Scanning long term changes

Facilitates the Business in operational decision making - Analyses variances in all identified parameters pertaining to commercial and production dimensions and work out countermeasures with respective teams.

Resource and asset utilization while meeting the customers requirement

- Plans for production and inventory levels ensuring optimum utilization of plant machinery and resources.

- Coordinates Operations planning meeting

- Regular interaction and follow-up to ensure quantity & delivery commitments to customers as per plan

Timely Production planning - Implementation and review of PPC Plan

- Prepares and circulate PPC report

- To monitor the deviations of Operations/Marketing w.r.t production & order booking for corrective action

- Prepares EBIDT estimations

- Prepares and circulates contribution costing sheet

Ensure Plans from stakeholders are uploaded in system (ASCP) on timely basis & scenario building 

- Collection of data (Sales, Sourcing, Production etc.) from different depts.

Optimize material movement (~1million MT) and inventory planning for all SKUs including adjacencies. 

- Inbound and Outbound material movement optimization

- Optimize inventory plans as per sales

- Capacity planning and utilization

Make vs buy decisions - Decide on captive products make Vs buy decision

Scenario building for various operational eventualities - Ensure Zero down time due to planning issues