Senior Manager - Beverages Production, Hyderabad PC

About the Job: Senior Manager Production

What are the Key Deliverables in this role ?

Financial Outcomes    

• Drive productivity, cost optimization, and operational efficiency initiatives of the unit.
• Ensure effective governance and utilization of operational and Capex budgets.
• Drive waste reduction, Contract Packing performance enhancement.
• Driving opportunities for Unbudgeted Saving through process / operations excellence.
• Monitor and improve key financial and operational KPIs for the unit
• Co-pack/3P management and stock reconciliation and controlling process wastage at co-pack locations
• Implement plant level process improvements assigned to optimize operational efficiencies for increasing productivity per man hour and to reduce variable over heads

Customer Service

• Partner closely with Supply Chain, Sales, Quality, Procurement, and Planning teams to ensure uninterrupted product availability and service delivery.
• Build strong governance mechanisms with third-party manufacturing partners to ensure adherence to agreed performance standards.
• Ensure timely execution of business priorities, customer commitments, and market requirements.
• Reduction in customer/consumer complaints
• Improve Service level & schedule adherence

Internal Processes

•       Manage day-to-day production requirements & coordinate with 3P team for deployment of resources for timely execution of indent, delivery to respective CF.
• Meeting the plant production plan and adherence to daily/ weekly and Monthly Production Schedule.
• Ensuring floor level SOP implementation to meet Quality standards of Products.
• Assist in Capex Planning, Health & Safety & Annual cost budget
• Verification of 3P Expenses in Operations including Verification of Monthly Bills.
• Ensure Legal & Statutory compliance of the Plant
•  Ensure Adherence to SOP including with Co Packer / 3P.
•  Production planning, Monitoring inventory and monthly stock reconciliation.
•  Production MIS, Daily and Monthly Reports Including Statutory Reports.
•  Guiding 3P Team in maintaining GMP/ GHP standards of the Plant.
•       Stock control of RM & PM in production and periodic stock verifications.
•        Verify maintenance plan, follow up on execution of AMC, maintain critical spares inventory and expenses
•  Plant level gap analysis and escalation of findings
•  Involvement in improving Plant efficiency, plant maintenance, Cost Control & CI activities.
•     Co-ordinate with S&OP, Procurement and Finance for operational issues and day-to-day requirements.

Innovation and Learning

• Developing safety Culture among the 3P employee

• Identify and implement process innovation, automation, and digital transformation opportunities.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, 5S/TPM/Kaizen / LSS projects,  problem-solving, and operational excellence

What are the Critical success factors for the Role ?

•  Graduate Engineer in Mechanical / Electrical / Production with 5+ years’ work experience
• Plant and Production Management
• People Management skills in 3P operation
•  Knowledge in FS Management Systems, EHS, Statutory Compliance pertaining to Factory, Factory Act & Rules, Labour Laws
• Product and packing material, QC /kaizen / Process Improvements.
• Knowledge in ERP systems (SAP)
• Co -Manufacturing –3P Operations Management. - Including Stock Management and reconciliations.

What are the Desirable success factors for the Role?

•  Knowledge in manufacturing/packaging of FMCG products
•  Good communication skills
• 3P management and leadership skills. Analytical and problem-solving orientation

• Understanding of food safety, EHS and statutory compliance requirements.
• Strong communication and people leadership skills.

About Us: At Tata Consumer, we stand ‘For Better.’

Tata Consumer Products is a focused consumer products company uniting the principal food and beverage interests of the Tata Group under one umbrella. Our brands embody our purpose of ‘For Better ‘through the value they deliver to consumers with a focus on innovation, health and wellness, convenience and premiumization. The Company’s portfolio of products includes tea, coffee, water, RTD, salt, pulses, spices, ready-to-cook and ready-to-eat offerings, breakfast cereals, snacks and mini meals. Our key brands include Tata Tea, Tetley, Eight O’Clock Coffee, Tata Coffee Grand, Himalayan Natural Mineral Water, Tata Copper+ and Tata Gluco+, Tata Salt, Tata Sampann and Tata Soulfull. In India, Tata Consumer Products has a reach of over 200 million households, giving it an unparalleled ability to leverage the Tata brand in consumer products.

The Company has a consolidated annual turnover of ~Rs. 17,618 Crs with operations in India and International markets. For more information, please visit www.tataconsumer.com