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Experience: 18+ yrs

Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Job Type: Full-time

We are looking for an experienced and commercially astute Chief Operating Officer (COO) – Pharma to lead and scale operations across a multi-site pharmaceutical manufacturing environment. The role will have end-to-end responsibility for operational excellence, manufacturing performance, quality, supply chain, cost management, and execution across multiple plants and clusters.

The ideal candidate will bring extensive experience in API manufacturing, multi-site operations, plant leadership, and cluster-level management. The role requires a robust understanding of pharmaceutical manufacturing, regulatory expectations, operational transformation, and business performance.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end pharmaceutical manufacturing operations across multiple API manufacturing sites and clusters.




- Develop and execute the overall operations strategy in alignment with business growth and profitability objectives.
- Drive operational excellence across manufacturing, quality, engineering, maintenance, EHS, supply chain, and plant support functions.
- Establish consistent operating standards, performance metrics, governance mechanisms, and best practices across multiple sites.
- Improve plant productivity, capacity utilisation, yield, throughput, cost efficiency, and overall equipment effectiveness.
- Ensure manufacturing operations comply with applicable GMP, regulatory, quality, safety, and environmental requirements.
- Partner with Quality and Regulatory teams to maintain inspection readiness and strengthen quality systems.
- Lead initiatives focused on cost optimisation, process improvement, productivity enhancement, and operational transformation.
- Review manufacturing capacity, demand, production planning, inventory, and supply-chain performance across sites.
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