Business Head Metals & Chemical Processing The role involves end-to-end business ownership, with accountability for plant operations, feed sourcing, sales, profitability, and business growth. The ideal candidate should have a deep understanding of chemical processing, metal extraction and sales, along with proven experience in managing large-scale process plants and commercial operations.

Key Responsibilities

1. Business & P&L; Ownership

- Lead the overall business for metals including Copper, Zinc, Lithium, Cobalt, and Nickel, with end-to-end accountability for business performance and profitability.
- Formulate and execute business strategies aligned with organizational growth objectives.
- Drive profitability through cost optimization, process efficiency, capacity utilization, yield improvement, and product realization.
- Own annual operating budgets, financial performance, working capital, and overall commercial outcomes.
- Identify opportunities for capacity expansion, new products, process improvements, and value-added downstream businesses.

2. Plant Operations & Manufacturing

- Provide overall leadership to plant operations, ensuring safe, reliable, efficient, and cost-effective functioning of the manufacturing facility.
- Drive plant performance across production, yield, recovery, quality, throughput, energy consumption, and operating costs.
- Ensure optimal utilization of installed capacity and continuously improve operational efficiency.
- Work closely with plant, process, maintenance, quality, EHS, and technical teams to achieve production and business targets.




- Establish and monitor operational KPIs and drive a culture of continuous improvement, productivity, and operational excellence.
- Ensure compliance with all applicable EHS, statutory, environmental, quality, and operational standards.

3. Feed Sourcing & Raw Material Strategy

- Own the end-to-end sourcing strategy for feed/raw materials required for the plant, ensuring adequate availability, quality, and competitive landed cost.
- Develop and maintain a strong network of feed suppliers, recyclers, aggregators, traders, and strategic sourcing partners.
- Identify current feed sources and geographies to ensure security and diversification of raw material supply.
- Lead commercial negotiations, supplier development, contract structuring, and long-term sourcing arrangements.
- Optimize the feed mix based on plant capabilities, metal recovery, processing economics, quality parameters, and market conditions.
- Work closely with technical and plant teams to evaluate the metallurgical/chemical suitability and economics of different feed materials.
- Ensure uninterrupted feed availability while optimizing inventory, working capital, logistics, and overall sourcing costs.

4. Sales & Business Development

- Develop and execute the sales strategy for extracted metals and value-added chemical intermediates.




- Build and manage relationships with key customers, strategic accounts, traders, and downstream consumers.
- Formulate commercial strategies covering pricing, customer engagement, contract negotiation, product positioning, and market development.
- Identify new markets and business opportunities to maximize product realization and margins.
- Develop long-term customer relationships and strategic partnerships to strengthen market positioning.
- Monitor metal and chemical market trends, competitor activity, pricing, and demand-supply dynamics to inform business decisions.

5. Integrated Commercial & Operational Management

- Balance feed economics, plant performance, metal recovery, product realization, and market pricing to maximize overall business profitability.
- Develop an integrated view of the business from feed sourcing plant processing metal recovery product sales cash realization.
- Ensure close coordination between sourcing, operations, sales, finance, and supply chain teams.
- Take data-driven decisions on feed procurement, production planning, inventory, product mix, and sales allocation.

6. Leadership & Team Management

- Build, lead, and develop high-performing teams across operations, sourcing, sales, commercial, and support functions.
- Establish clear performance metrics and accountability across the organization.
- Work closely with senior management/promoters on strategic decisions, investments, expansion plans, and overall business growth.
- Drive a strong culture of ownership, operational discipline, commercial excellence, and profitability.

📌 Base Metal Business Head | Lithium & Battery Minerals (Chandigarh)
🏢 Wikilabs India
📍 Chandigarh