Business and Unit Brief

Aditya Birla Group is building a pipeline of accomplished manufacturing leaders for Unit Head opportunities across its process manufacturing businesses in India. The role will lead a large and complex manufacturing operation with end-to-end accountability for secure, reliable, sustainable and profitable performance. The specific Group company, business and plant location will be shared with shortlisted candidates at a later stage of the selection process.

The operating environment may involve complex process technologies, multiple raw-material and product streams, demanding quality and service expectations, significant supply-chain and logistics interfaces, stringent statutory and environmental requirements, and a diverse workforce and stakeholder ecosystem. The successful leader will combine strategic orientation with strong execution, operating discipline, commercial judgement, stakeholder maturity and the ability to build a high-performing organisation.

Role Details

Role Purpose: Lead the end-to-end performance of a large process manufacturing unit,



with accountability for strategy execution, production, profitability, safety, reliability, supply chain, governance, stakeholder management and people leadership. The Unit Head will integrate priorities across functions, strengthen operating discipline and build a high-performance, future-ready organisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Unit Strategy and Business Planning : Align unit strategy with the overall business and manufacturing strategy; anticipate market, competitive and regulatory shifts; provide unit-level insights on product mix, capacity utilisation and optimisation; and translate strategic priorities into annual operating plans and clear functional objectives.
• Operations, Production and Profitability : Deliver production, quality, cost, service and profitability objectives in line with approved plans and SOPs. Provide direction across unit functions, resolve competing priorities

📌 Unit Head (India)
🏢 Aditya Birla Group
📍 India