Associate Manager - Production

Date: 5 Jan 2026

Location: Mumbai, MH, IN, 400093

Company: Tata Consumer Products Limited

TATA-CONSUMER-PRODUCTS-BLUE-LOGO-Feb-13

 

 

 

Designation
Associate Manager- Production


Function
Product Supply Organization
Location
Hinganghat
Reporting To
Associate Director - Water Plant

 

 

Job Description

 

 

What are the Key Deliverables in this role? Financial Outcomes

🞴 Plant budgeting including Capex and Opex, regular monitoring and action plan to improve further.

🞴 Production KPIs for cost of conversion, Manpower allocation and cost saving initiatives, RM/PM check as per production requirement to avoid any business loss, Yields and Efficiencies achievement as per budget.

Customer Service

🞴 Ensure Legal and Statutory compliances of the plant

🞴 Sustain all certifications for Food Safety, EHS and others including EMS

🞴 Implement & Adhere to Quality standards to ensure volume delivery as per schedule  

 

Internal Processes

 

🞴 Oversee Planning and scheduling of day-to-day production in accordance with plan shared by S&OP team.

🞴    Drive the team to prepare the day-to-day MIS reporting and entering production data into SAP, conduct material variance     analysis and work on yield improvement

🞴 Responsible for Legal & Statutory

🞴 Ensure FIFO & FEFO for both Inventory coming for production and FG for dispatch.

🞴 Drive and monitor utility consumption of the factory and find opportunities to improve the same.

🞴 Ensures the Uptime of the entire plant Equipments inclusive of Utilities, Production unit, Packaging, Facility etc.

🞴 Execution of All Capex/Projects allocated, Meet the cashflow targets as per the budget allocated

🞴 Do analysis on Efficiencies, drive projects/Kaizens for improvement. Identify the gaps and develop culture on Sustainability.

🞴 Meet all Safety, food safety requirements while executing Maintenance & Projects

🞴 Develop skill matrix & training calendar for all operators and other plant team members.

🞴     SAP compliance for all day to day activities and ensure smooth monthly closing

🞴 Coordinate for all Audits from Safety, Food safety, Energy Management, ISO, Legal audits etc

🞴  Prepare Weekly, Monthly presentations on the plant operations performance.

Innovation and Learning

🞴 Foster Innovation in process optimization by effective Operation & Maintenance

🞴 Ethical Considerations: Stay updated on advanced technologies on industries surrounding for process improvement in operation & maintenance. Foster a culture of good maintenance practice within the organization.

 

 

What are the Critical success factors for the Role ?

🞴  B.Tech / BE in any stream

🞴  Minimum 6-7 years of Managerial experience in a reputed Beverages, FMCG organization

🞴 Knowledge of New Technology (machinery, IOT, 4.0 ….), Food Safety, EHS, Statutory Compliance, Factory Act & Rules, Labour Laws, Product and packing material, QC /kaizen /Small Group Activities

 

What are the Desirable success factors for the Role ?

🞴 Knowledge of Food industry preferably in Beverage process

🞴 Good communication skills (English, Hindi, Marathi) and Stakeholders management capabilities.

🞴 Proven experience in operations within a factory

🞴  Good in problem solving abilities

🞴 Computer proficiency (MS office, SAP, Google drive, Power Bi). Advanced MS office and SAP working knowledge is a must.

 

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