Associate Manager - Production - Beverages

Date: 23 Sept 2025

Location: Gopalpur, Odisha, IN, 761020

Company: Tata Consumer Products Limited

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Designation
Associate Manager - Production


Function
Product Supply Organization
Location
Gopalpur
Reporting To
Senior Manager - Gopalpur PC

 

 

Job Description

 

 

 

What are the Key Deliverables in this role?

 

Financial Outcomes

Capex Planning & Plant Budget: Assist the packeting centre unit head in Capex Planning & plant cost budget. Ensure the unit fixed and variable expenditures are in line within budget. Assist the packeting centre unit head on bill verification of co-packer.

 

Customer Service

  • Review daily market priorities and ensure timely fulfillment of requirements.
  • Foster a collaborative approach with both internal and external stakeholders to achieve organizational objectives.
  • Ensure that quality standards are consistently upheld, as reflected in key performance indicators such as DPMO, customer complaints, and RFT.
  • Ensure the Legal & Statutory compliances of the Plant.
  • Sustaining Food Safety, EHS certifications, other certifications in future & maintaining GMP/ GHP standards

 

Internal Processes

  • Packeting Centre Operations: Assist packeting centre unit head in day-to-day operations & functioning of the plant, ensuring the production volume as per the production plan.
  • Collaborated closely with stakeholders to deliver NPD and CAPEX projects on schedule and within allocated budgets.
  • Demonstrated strong commitment to the rollout of Health & Safety and Food Safety culture initiatives.
  • Promoting a strong culture in the rollout of various continual improvement initiatives, including Kaizen, Six Sigma projects, and TPM, in alignment with organizational objectives.
  • Ensure the stock control and stock count as per the plan.
  • Conduct Plant level risk analysis and escalation of findings.

 

Innovation and Learning

  • Foster Innovation in process optimization & involvement in improving Plant efficiency, plant maintenance & Cost Control & activities.
  • Lead digitization initiatives at the unit level.

 

 

What are the Critical success factors for the Role?

 

  • Engineering or graduate degree.
  • 6-8 years’ work experience in FMCG Industry.
  • Knowledge of New Technology (machinery, IOT, 4.0 ….), Food Safety, EHS, Statutory Compliance, Factory Act & Rules, Labor Laws, Product and packing material, QC /kaizen /Small Group Activities.
  • Understanding & Experience of production & resource planning & production management.

 

What are the Desirable success factors for the Role?

  • Understanding & Experience of overall plant operations.
  • Analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a focus on delivering actionable insights and innovative solutions.
  • Good communication skills and stakeholder management capabilities
  • Familiarity with the FMCG products an understanding of its challenges and opportunities.
  • Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and manage complex and ambiguous scenarios.

 

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