Job Purpose

The SOP Lead owns and runs the full SOP cycle for the Extrusion Business Unit, encompassing demand, supply, fice, and executive reviews. The role balances demand, supply, and profitability objectives while ensuring operational feasibility and timely execution. The role pivots on being accountable for finalizing the Strategic Plans for the Extrusions business feeding into capex use cases through unmet demand from the market , annual planning budgeting volumetric finalization, sales plan finalization at an annual / quarterly and monthly levels as well as billet movement in the extrusions value chain and the production plan finalization for all extrusion units. Critical to the role is the convening of the SOP executive forum wherein collaboration across units through the manufacturing head and the stream leads through the business head needs to be aligned for a consensus plan.

It resolves customer allocation conflicts, bottlenecks, and tradeoffs in real time, and approves fulfilment strategies, planned inventory targets, and exceptions to plan deviations. The SOP Lead monitors and optimises press utilisation at the BU level, ensuring alignment with corporate strategy and directives from the Enterprise SOP Head. Additionally, the role delivers BUlevel dashboards tracking PL performance, fill rates, utilisation, and key inventory metrics to drive continuous improvement and informed decisionmaking.

The role is to operate across the complex business comprising of:

- Demand: Extrusions 92 KT/Annum and across 9 Streams, 66. 5K SKUs, 2K + Customers, Pan Geographic operations.
- Supply: 4 extrusion plants, 2 dieshops, 3 casthouses; multiple warehouses + value addition units that together deliver Extrusions (7. 6 KT/month). # of presses 15 extrusion lines [2025]

Network wide Working Capital ~ 15 days of Finished Goods, and 45 days of WIP on a base of Extrusions sales

Key Result Areas/Accountabilities:

Key Result Areas/Accountabilities

Supporting Actions

Strategic Planning

- Support and anchor capex use cases from unmet demand as well as demand / supply / capacity mismatches in the existing mfg units




- Create and arrive at a consensus on annual and strategic marketing and sales plans with explicit focus on customer segmentation and product segmentation
- Manage product portfolio mapping across the manufacturing resources for maximizing CP in the business
- Annual planning and budgeting (PB) volumetrics with CP outlook for all FG items
- Working capital inventory reduction and alignment of the same with the budgeted figures in the business

EndtoEnd SOP Ownership

- Create and institutionalise the integrated SOP process for the Extrusion Business Unit by leading the complete SOP cycle, integrating demand, supply, and ficial perspectives into a single, consensusdriven plan aligned with the unit s business objectives
- Run core SOP reviews by facilitating monthly Demand, Supply, Fice, and Executive SOP Reviews, ensuring actionable insights, risk visibility, and leadership alignment
- Balance demand, supply, and profitability by continuously optimize tradeoffs among customer commitments, production constraints, and cost objectives to deliver both service excellence and margin improvement
- Manage higher service levels and production readiness for planned and unplanned demand with varying service levels based on customer segmentation and priorities in business.
- Design the Order Promiser adjacency for Extrusions business to take the current phase aiming at production readiness and indirect OTIF improvement to a direct OTIF and real time order promise capability for EBITDA maximization through capable to promise / available to promise and profitable to promise driven business processes.

Operational Execution and Decision Leadership

- Resolve tradeoffs and exceptions by acting as the final decision authority within the BU for allocation conflicts, plan deviations,



and fulfilment strategy approvals, ensuring decisions are databacked and aligned to enterprise priorities
- Optimize capacity utilization by press, and caster efficiency by aligning production campaigns and schedules to demand priorities, minimizing changeovers, and improving campaign adherence
- Monitor and govern plan adherence by ensuring that production, logistics, and procurement teams operate within the approved SOP framework; track deviations and initiate corrective actions proactively
- Billet movement across plants and rationalize the make vs buy decisions for billets on tactical and operational horizons of month to quarter

Process Excellence and Digital Enablement

- Leverage Blue Yonder SOP Platform and utilize advanced scenario modeling, forecast simulation, and exception dashboards to evaluate supply constraints and ficial implications in real time
- Champion process discipline and standardize planning cadence, input quality, and master data accuracy to strengthen forecast reliability and supply chain synchronization
- Continuously Improve planning efficiency and identify opportunities to automate manual interventions, enhance forecastsupply linkage, and reduce SOP decision cycle time

Stakeholder Management

- Engage stakeholders across the value chain and work closely with sales, marketing, manufacturing, and logistics teams to ensure cohesive execution of the SOP plan across all stages of production and delivery
- Bridge commercial and operational priorities and serve as the primary interface between the business unit and the central SOP function, ensuring BUlevel plans align with overall corporate strategy.
- Influence strategic choices and advise BU leadership on campaign planning, inventory targets, and productmix shifts to enhance competitiveness and responsiveness to market demand

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