Vice President - Business Line P&L - Auto Component Manufacturing

Position : VP - BL P&L (Pune Region)

Reporting to : Managing Director

Reporting in : All Functional Heads

New/Replacement : New

Position Overview : Strategically lead and drive the company's business to a growth path by maintaining and improving its competitive position and profitability.

Experience:

- Approx. 20-25 years experience with 3-5 years leadership role in an auto component manufacturing/ engineering company and exposure of handling a medium sized turnover business. This role will have P&L responsibility.

- Emphasis on manufacturing operations, project management and organization development. This role also involves a great deal of strategic execution through operational excellence.

Age: 45-50 years

Location: Pune

Qualifications: B.E. Electrical/ Electronics/ Mechanical from a reputable university, MBA preferred.

Responsibilities

- Responsible for P&L and cash flow of all plants.

- Provide leadership and direct plant heads to implement strategies and objectives to achieve operational excellence.

- Develop business plans and lead the business development team in sourcing, managing and implementing new business opportunities.

- Support the overall process of management and decision making to ensure that the organization maximizes its short, medium and long term profitability and shareholder returns.

- Maintain personal relationships with important customers and suppliers as well as public agencies and responsible for customer satisfaction.

- Contribute to formulation of short and long term strategy.

- Maintain and control production plan and processes.

- Lead projects to optimize production technology, to increase production capacity and to establish new production segments.

- Responsible to be a bridge between development (engineering and vendor) and mass production.

- Responsible for setting up of new plants if any in future.

Ensure that manufacturing is linked to other critical business areas such as sales, procurement in order to ensure a holistic business approach.

- Develop, establish and execute operating policies to support overall company policies and objectives.

- TPM way of working and lean manufacturing with emphasis on waste reduction and productivity improvement.

Key Competencies :

(Functional & Behavioral)

- Strong managerial, leadership and people management skills.

- Visionary.

- Strategic thinker and decision maker.

- Business and financial acumen with result orientation.

- Exposure to multi-disciplinary and multi-functional areas.

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

- Multi-tasking and ability to work under pressure.

- Critical eyed, result-oriented, tenacious, dynamic self-starter.

- International exposure.