Job Title Plant Manager - Perfumery

City, Country Bharuch, India In this role you lead and optimize end-to-end manufacturing operations, ensuring safe, efficient, and high-quality production that meets business and customer requirements. Drive operational excellence, continuous improvement, and cost optimization while developing a high-performing team. Align plant operations with the company's strategic growth, sustainability, and supply chain objectives.

Your key responsibilities:

Leadership

- Advise senior local management with regards to developing sustainable manufacturing excellence through clearly defined objectives and targets;
- Lead cross-functional teams: Production, SCM, Quality, Engineering, HR and Safety
- Build robust leadership pipeline and second-line capability
- Drive performance management and accountability culture
- Promote employee engagement and capability development
- Nurture division culture, foster necessary changes and act as role model
- Develops budgets and approves expenditures for supplies, materials, and human resources, ensuring that materials, labor and equipment are used efficiently to meet production targets.

Strategic

- Participate to the definition of the site master plan to align site capabilities with strategic objectives.
- Identify all opportunities to improve manufacturing efficiency, increase automation rate and/or productivity.
- Participate to production transfers between sites in order to reduce overall manufacturing costs
- Liaise with peers from other sites and Global Manufacturing excellence head to ensure sharing of best practices
- Lead the Site Continuous Improvement projects across manufacturing facilities; identify improvement projects and lead the chartered multi-discipline teams.

Operational

- Lead overall plant operations to achieve production targets and efficiency goals
- Drive OEE, capacity utilization, and throughput optimization




- Ensure adherence to production plans aligned with business demand
- Implement Lean Manufacturing, TPM, and continuous improvement initiatives. Always keep an eye to increase efficiency effectiveness of plant processes and system.
- Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and implement corrective actions when targets are not met.
- Work with Planning Customer Support Team to produce Right product at Right time with Right Quality.
- Prepares and maintains plant reports and personnel records
- Reviews processing schedules and production orders to make decisions concerning staffing requirements, work procedures, and duty assignments, considering budgetary limitations and time constraints
- Hires, trains, evaluates, and discharges staff, and resolves personnel grievances
- Develops and implements production tracking and quality control systems, analyzing production, quality control, maintenance, and other operational reports, to detect production problems
- Reviews plans and work with technical staff to develop new processes.
- Ensure effective implementation of global policies and processes
- Align plant operations with SOP (Sales Operations Planning) process
- Ensure seamless coordination between procurement, planning, and production
- Drive lead time reduction across the value chain - Eliminate operational bottlenecks from inbound to outbound flow
- Oversee inbound and outbound logistics operations
- Optimize freight, warehousing, and distribution network efficiency in close co-ordination with TD team
- Manage 3PL and logistics partners for performance and cost
- Ensure high OTIF (On-Time In-Full) / OTD (On-Time Delivery)

You bring

- 15-20 years of experience in similar industry.
- Minimum 5 years experience in similar position.
- Qualification of B.E. Chemical Engineering

- Knowledge of SAP
- Knowledge of Food Safety,
- Knowledge GMP, Lean/Six Sigma and continuous Improvement.

📌 Plant Manager - Perfumery (Bharuch)
🏢 DSM Firmenich
📍 Bharuch