Manager, Strategic Initiatives – Operations | Office of the Managing Director

About

• the Role
• Reporting directly to the Managing Director, you will
• anchor the company's most critical initiatives: capacity expansions,
• operational excellence programs, and cross-business-unit improvements. You will
• turn strategic priorities into delivered results across our plants in India and
• our international operations. This is an operator's role at the centre of a
• newly listed, fast-growing engineering company.

Key

Responsibilities

• ●Deliver growth and expansion
• projects — own execution of capex programs, including new capacity, machinery
• and facility builds, from planning through commissioning, on time and within
• budget.
• ●Drive capacity and productivity
• — improve asset utilisation, throughput and cost across manufacturing units,
• working with plant and BU heads.
• ●Strengthen working capital and
• cash flow — lead initiatives across inventory, order-to-cash and procurement to
• improve the cash conversion cycle.
• ●Build supply chain resilience —
• work with procurement on vendor development, dual sourcing and long-term supply
• arrangements for critical raw materials.
• ●Improve order-to-delivery
• execution — strengthen S&OP and project delivery for large project and OEM
• orders.
• ●Support international
• operations — coordinate initiatives with overseas subsidiaries and JV partners.
• ●Run the operating rhythm — set
• up project governance, dashboards and review cadence so the MD and board have a
• clear, current view of progress on strategic commitments.
• ●Act as the MD's extension —
• prepare board and leadership materials, build business cases for new
• opportunities, and follow through on decisions across functions.

Required

• ●B.E./B.Tech in Electrical,
• Electronics, Instrumentation or Industrial Engineering — technical fluency
• matters given our products are sensors, heaters and cables.
• ●3+ years in manufacturing
• operations, operations strategy, or program management in an engineering or
• industrial company.
• ●A record of taking initiatives
• from concept to measurable results across multiple functions.
• ●Working knowledge of
• operations, supply chain and quality management.
• ●Strong analytical and financial
• skills, including building and defending business cases.
• ●Ability to influence senior
• stakeholders without direct authority.

Preferred

Candidate Profile

• ●MBA in Operations or Strategy
• from a reputed institute.
• ●Experience with capex projects,
• plant expansions or greenfield/brownfield setups.
• ●Exposure to Lean, Six Sigma,
• TPM or S&OP.
• ●Experience in a listed company,
• or one preparing for listing.
• ●Exposure to international
• operations, JVs or overseas partners.
• ●Background in industrial
• products: instrumentation, cables, electrical equipment, process industries.
• ●Comfortable on the shop floor
• as well as in a board review; brings structure to ambiguity, moves fast without
• losing rigour, and measures success by outcomes delivered.

What

You Will Get

• ●Direct access to, and
• mentorship from, the Managing Director.
• ●A front-row view of how a newly
• listed engineering company scales in India and abroad.
• ●Ownership of initiatives that
• directly shape the company's growth.
• ●A clear path into senior roles,
• such as plant or BU leadership or head of strategy.

Role

Objective

• To convert the Managing Director's strategic
• priorities into delivered operational results — expanding capacity,
• strengthening execution and supply chain resilience, and building the
• governance rhythm needed to scale Tempsens as a newly listed, fast-growing
• engineering company.