Role:

The Senior / Execution Lead is responsible for orchestrating endtoend operational delivery of product introductions, changes, and delistings across both Combustibles and NGP categories.

This role ensures that all execution activities progress seamlessly through PLM and associated systems, with a focus on data quality, process integrity, risk management, and crossfunctional alignment.

Acting as the central coordination point between Markets, GSC functions, R&D;, Quality, Regulatory, Procurement, external manufacturing partners, and master data teams, the Senior / Execution Lead drives timely, accurate, and compliant execution of project milestones.

The role ensures that PID and PB data meets defined governance requirements, feasibility outcomes are clearly translated into execution readiness, and downstream dependencies (planning, artwork, specifications, production, logistics) are synchronised.

In the future-state model, the role becomes a systemenabled execution owner, leveraging increased automation, structured guardrails, templated communication, and predictive workflow rules to reduce rework, waiting time and manual checks.

The Senior / Execution Lead ensures high firsttimeright, proactively identifies and mitigates risks across the execution cycle, and maintains the accuracy and auditability of PLM records, including change requests, risk logs,



and postlaunch learnings. By providing operational leadership across multiple parallel initiatives, the Senior / Execution Lead is accountable for maintaining execution discipline, driving process optimisation, and safeguarding delivery performance from PID creation through to launch, scaleup, or delisting closure. The Execution team sits in daytoday, monthtomonth delivery, but must now work fully aligned with the internal monthly cadence described across the Clients Playbook.

Key Responsibilities

- PID & PB Data Governance and Execution Readiness (Ensuring accurate, validated data through the full monthly Clients cycle).
- CrossFunctional Coordination and Stakeholder Alignment (Acting as the execution integrator across GCO, GSC, Finance, Markets, Clusters and Regions).
- Execution Monitoring and Risk Management (Embedding continuous, forwardlooking visibility into the Client’s cycle ).
- Change Request and Documentation Control (Ensuring structured, auditable control of all executionrelated changes).
- Launch, Delivery, and PostLaunch Evaluation (Ensuring successful execution endtoend across the Client’s process).
- Delisting Management (Managing controlled SKU withdrawal through the Client’s phases, execution only).

📌 Project Execution Lead, Chennai, 5+ years
🏢 WNS Holdings
📍 Chennai