Head - Operations Excellence - Packaging Firm

- Minimum Qualification MBA from top tier institute

- Experience 12+ years overall experience in operations and supply chain

- Ideally some experience as a plant head or similar leadership role

- 3-4+ years in operations excellence role in similar complexity setup

- Driving Operation Excellence

- Lead operational excellence initiative at MTL - across productivity, quality, safety and cost effectiveness

- Conceive, identify, detail and lead implementation of projects driving the above leveraging ops leadership team and demonstrate key outcomes (ops metrics, P&L savings, customer quality improvement etc.)

- Bring deep manufacturing expertise from allied industry, knowledge of best practices and operations management tools (incl. but not limited to Lean, Six Sigma, 5S, Automation, OEE improvement)

- EBITDA Improvement - making MTL lowest cost manufacturer

- Drive cost optimization program at MTL - establish benchmarks, build bridge to best in class and conceive projects to reach aspiration

- Drive waves of improvement projects (leveraging external consultants where needed); ensure budgeting and actual savings accruals in P&L

- Cross functional leadership and tracking

- Build cross functional teams leveraging plant teams, central functions to deliver on daily basis

- Develop clear workplans, identify analyses and allocate deliverables across teams

- Build Daily Management Systems and Short Interval Management/Controls at Corporate and Plant Level.

- Governance and leadership engagement

- Set up / Own and execute clear governance cadence for ops excellence projects - comprising working sessions, steering committee reviews along with associated MIS. Automate MIS where possible.

- Lead conversations on operations excellence with CEO, board members on regular basis (needs to build trust based leaderships with CXOs and board members)

- Best Practice Sharing, Standardization

- 'Engage with external experts / advisors to identify new levers for optimizing processes (e.g. automation); build strong external network for ready access to best practices

- Standardize successful pilot projects and execute at scale across machines and plants

- Synthesize key learnings to input into training and capability building agenda of operations teams