Chief Manager - Strategic Planning & PPC - Chemicals Business

Job Description : 

Team/Department - Strategic Planning and PPC

Business & Location - Fluoro Chemicals Business, Gurgaon

Reporting to - VP - Strategy

Purpose : 

- Evaluate and recommend options for strategic growth to the management for the long term survival and growth of the business.

- To manage/contribute as a member of strategic planning team to carry out the various strategic initiatives within the business.

- Active participation in the team for effective implementation of strategic projects.

- To make, review and execute PPC plans as per S&M requirement by Production planning and inventory management.

Dimensions: 

Financials : Business Size - 1800 crores

Principal Accountabilities & Responsibilities: 

Strategic planning Process: 

- Work on creating 3 years long term strategic plan, to be approved by Strategy team, BLT and CEO

Strategic Projects :

- Ensure review of strategic projects for its timely completion

Business opportunities :

- Evaluating business opportunities in new products, segments, markets, expansion.

- Evaluating organic/ inorganic (acquisition/ merger) modes for expansion as opportunities.

- Evaluating/recommending new business model.

Business positioning:

- Reviewing competition business model and recommending an alternate model.

- Benchmarking study within and outside the industry

- Understanding macro environment global / India & evaluate its impacts on business.

- Scanning long term changes

Facilitates the Business in operational decision making:

- Analyses variances in all identified parameters pertaining to commercial and production dimensions and work out countermeasures with respective teams.

- Resource and asset utilization while meeting the customer's requirement

- Plans for production and inventory levels ensuring optimum utilization of plant machinery and resources.

- Coordinates Operations planning meeting

- Regular interaction and follow-up to ensure quantity & delivery commitments to customers as per plan

Timely Production planning:

- Implementation and review of the PPC Plan

- Prepares and circulate PPC report

- To monitor the deviations of Operations/Marketing w.r.t production & order booking for corrective action

- Prepares EBIDT estimations

- Prepares and circulates contribution costing sheet

- Ensure Plans from stakeholders are uploaded in system (ASCP) on timely basis & scenario building

- Collection of data (Sales, Sourcing, Production etc.) from different depts.

-Optimize material movement (~1million MT) and inventory planning for all SKUs including adjacencies.

- Inbound and Outbound material movement optimization

- Optimize inventory plans as per sales

- Capacity planning and utilization

Make vs buy decisions:

- Decide on captive products make Vs buy decision

- Scenario building for various operational eventualities

- Ensure Zero down time due to planning issues

Position Specification

Educational Qualification-Engineering Graduate / MBA (FT)

Nature of experience-Business Management / Strategic Management / Production Planning

Duration of experience: 12 Years

Role specific competencies-Planning & Execution, Strategic Alignment, Commercial Acumen, Analysis, Team Working, Problem Solving, Alignment to Change, Communication, Innovation