Lead - Business Planning/Program Management - Manufacturing/Chemicals

Key Accountabilities:

1. Assisting CEO in meeting the execution requirements; presenting the business information and proposals in a suitable manner to meet the business objectives. Further Interface with internal and external bodies for the same.

- Assist CEO in operations, execution and business strategy

- Submission of data to BH Office, BRC cell and Chairman's review (Internal stakeholders)

- Submission of data to DCPC, AMAI, FICCI etc (External stakeholders)

- Contract Negotiations & Discussions with Argus , IHS, Crisil for data, reports etc

- Ensuring timely submission of periodic review reports on business performance against budget of both domestic and chemicals business to the BRC Cell, and Chairman's office.

- Coordination with the BRC cell/ Chairman's office for any data/ details, action plans etc required.

2. Standardization and Simplification of reports to facilitate informed decision making at the CEOs Office & presenting data analysis to Units to take the right decisions

- Standardization of MIS's across all the Units for improvement and simplicity in the reporting structure.

- Automation of all reports

- Providing the required business information to internal concerned functions at Group or Business level for informed decision making

3. Driving new digitization initiatives with the business centrally: Further value extraction in Central manufacturing cockpit, Tonner management system, Logistics Cockpit etc. - The business works closely with various stakeholders like external vendors, group IT resources, Group DNA team and internal employees; ensuring the timely completion of project milestones. Assist CEO in preparing roadmap and milestones to help reach desired timelines

4. Business Operations Planning (IMM 2.0)

- To ensure Maximum technical availability of profitable plants through planned shutdowns, product mix optimization, running low cost plants to the full, & inventory optimization to maximize contribution, Improve plant utilization and reduce Working Capital

- Allocation based on Strategic constraints

- Contribution margin(CM) insights to help business in right product allocation.

- Incorporate grade wise costing in planning which can be shown to CEO on need basis

- Hydrogen balance to reduce venting, highlighting units which have high venting rates.

- Build Model flexibility in terms of scenario building and experimentation

5. Program Management - Manage all central programs including regular analysis of what are issues to give directional focus areas to the Management. Eg.

- Manufacturing Cockpit

- CEOs Premier League

- IMM 2.0 - Integrated Manufacturing Management

- Logistics Cockpit

6. Program Development - Transform CEOs vision for the business into appropriate programs to create self-sustaining programs. This would involve the below work:

- Structure: Analytics on past year data: Scenario Analysis, Trend analysis, Points system, Payout structure design, Payout analysis, Self-sustaining model

- Target Segment

- Products: Analysis to find appropriate conversion for like to like comparison to enable a competitive structure

- Integration: of Target segment information lying across multiple sources to have holistic information

- Dashboard: Conversion of relevant data into comprehensible analytics and dynamic dashboard

- Automation: Interface with IT team to support the program going forward with required features.

7. Identify, Evaluate and Propose growth opportunities/ Margin Expansion/ Volume Growth etc

- Actively scout for operational gaps which emerge due to context changes, Process rigidity, Market evolution etc and intimate the Management of the same

- Provide assistance to the CEO in articulating the overall strategy and direction for the business over medium-long term (3-5 years)

8. New Product Development

- Support the strategy team in identifying possible new chlorine derivatives

- Conduct primary or secondary research for the product / initiative

- Data collection and analysis (e.g. market size trend, pricing trend, opex break-up and trend, availability of raw materials, technology options etc.)

- Discuss the capex and opex for the proposed project with Technology and Projects team

- Development of financial model to ascertain the financial attractiveness and project returns (IRR, Payback period etc.)

- Develop a proposal and presentation on the project, for internal review and approval. Participate in various meetings for approval of the project