Lean Manager – Transformation Office

We are building a Transformation Office to change how our factories run. Not through posters or one-off 6S drives, but through a shop-floor operating system that our own leaders can run and sustain. We are looking for a Lean Manager who spends more time on the shop floor than in a meeting room.

THE ROLE
- Reports to: Chief Transformation Officer
- Base: Mumbai, with 20–30% travel across our production sites
- Scope: cross-functional improvement leader. Department heads own daily results; you build the capability that improves them.

Success is measured by verified operational improvement, and by how well our leaders and teams sustain the methods without depending on you.

WHAT YOU WILL DO
Assess the end-to-end flow
- Map value streams from material receipt through production, QC, packing and dispatch, including information and decision flows
- Observe real work across products, materials, customers, shifts and sites before drawing conclusions
- Find constraints, hand-off failures, variation,



rework loops and gaps between documented and actual practice

Find and quantify waste
- Identify the eight wastes and translate them into time, capacity, lead time, WIP, quality, cost, space and gold or material loss
- Separate symptoms from root causes, and never default to calling a performance gap an operator problem

Get to the truth in the data
- Verify definitions, sources, manual entries and reconciliations before trusting production data
- Compare reported performance against direct observation, source records and physical WIP
- Analyse output vs plan, earned vs direct hours, cycle and lead time, WIP ageing, first-pass yield, rework, scrap, downtime and schedule adherence

Deliver improvement
- Build current- and future-state value-stream maps with process owners and turn the gaps into prioritised plans
- Lead Kaizen events and problem-solving using PDCA, A3, 5 Why, Pareto and root-cause methods
- Improve flow, line balance, workpla

📌 Lean Manager (Mumbai)
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