Senior Manager - Strategy - Manufacturing

We are hiring for Below mention position:

Designation: Senior Manager - Strategy

Grade M4

Reporting Vice President - Marketing

Location Corporate Office (Mumbai)

Desired Profile:

Required Qualification:

1) B.E/B. Tech preferably from IIT/BITS/NIT/NITIE

2) MBA- Marketing from a reputed institution

Experience: Minimum 5- 7 years of relevant experience in large manufacturing set up

Technical Skill:

1) Expert knowledge of business and demonstrates commercial acumen

2) Possesses deep understanding of the Manufacturing & its sub-sectors

3) Hands on experience of EBITDA working, budgeting, budgetary controls, WCM etc.

4) Sound knowledge of the product life cycle & product costing regimes

5) Exposure of Industry 4.0

6) Adept at using strategically sound analytical methodologies

7) Indepth exposure of conducting primary & secondary research

Behavioral Skills/Personal attributes:

1) High on influence & result driven

2) High on agility & resilience

3) Great communication skills - Verbal & Written

4) Eye for detail

5) Collaborative and able to work well both as part of a team and independently

Required Age 36 - 38 years

Mobility High

Principal Accountabilities

Responsibility Supporting Activities

Strategic manufacturing:

1) To ensure that every manufacturing unit operates as "Strategic Business Unit (SBU)" and accordingly creates plans and puts systems & processes in place.

2) To work out manufacturing unit wise EBITDA on monthly basis, analyse the variance & suggest effective measures for addressing the variance.

3) To keep a track of the unit wise cost of manufacturing on regular basis and provide timely inputs to the leaders for improvement.

4) To analyse the unit wise trends pertaining to Working Capital Management, Budgets, Wastages & other key indicators and scientifically forecast these indicators so that he Management can take informed decisions.

5) To work in close collaboration with the Key Manufacturing Leaders in improving the effectiveness & efficiency of the Manufacturing function through the implementation of new initiatives & Industry 4.0.

6) To analyse & interpret various reports/MIS and provide strategic insights to the Management.

CAPEX Management:

1) To analyse & interpret the buying trends, budget utilisation across the manufacturing units and provide insights to the Management.

2) To devise mechanisms and set checks & balances for achieving cost optimisation & control over unbudgeted spends.

Product Development:

1) To gain deep understanding of customer experience, identify and fill product gaps and generate new product ideas that grow market share, improve customer experience and drive growth.

2) Responsible for the strategic analysis of the product life cycle starting from conceptualising the new product, defining the product requirements, feasibility study, ROI, product development roadmap, product launch & post launch.

3) To capture & highlight the data points & variance to the Management on product development side as per the defined timelines.

Product Costing:

1) To provide competitive intelligence through analyzing financial statements of the peers and market dynamics.

2) Identify the product costing trends, best practices within and across industries, and benchmarks the same for the Organisation.

3) To provide insights into deriving accurate product cost, develop a pricing model & control systems and work in close collaboration with the Costing Team.

Projects:

1) To act as a think tank, facilitator & liasoning partner to the functional leaders on capitalizing function-specific and Organisational opportunities through various strategic projects.

2) To monitor the progress of all such projects against the defined milestones, address the bottlenecks & provide regular updates to the Management.