Regional Operations Excellence - Printing/Packaging

Driving Operation Excellence :

- Lead operational excellence initiative - 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 lowest cost manufacturer

- Drive cost optimization program - 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

Competencies required :

- Operation Excellence/Lean/TPM/Six Sigma/5S/Visual Management

- Project Management

- Planning & Organizing Skills

- Analytical Skills

- MS Office (MIS and Presentation Skill)

- Basic Engineering / Technical proficiency

- Finance

- Digital Manufacturing/ Industry 4.0