Senior Executive Technical

Role Overview

Responsible for end-to-end production planning and scheduling for in-house manufacturing and co-packers, ensuring demand fulfillment through optimal capacity utilization, strong cross-functional coordination, and robust MIS reporting while driving plan adherence, inventory health, and service performance.

Top 5 Core Responsibilities / Outcomes Expected

• Develop and execute daily, weekly, and monthly production schedules aligned with demand forecast and capacity
• Ensure production plan adherence, optimize changeovers, and improve scheduling efficiency
• Cook with co-packers for capacity planning, scheduling, and execution tracking
• Monitor co-packer performance (OTIF, yield, quality) and drive issue resolution
• Collaborate with Demand Planning, Sales, Procurement, QA, and Logistics teams for demand-supply alignment
• Generate MIS reports and dashboards (plan adherence, OEE, IRM, inventory, losses) for performance tracking
• Analyse deviations and conduct RCA for plan misses, downtime, and supply constraints
• Align production plans with RM/PM availability and maintain optimum inventory levels
• Aid with analyzing of standards change, processing standards changes, troubleshooting issues with collective orders, routings, or BOMs, adding new lines for changes to production, packaging flow thru errors, etc.

Qualification

• Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
• Production planning & scheduling expertise
• Strong analytical and MIS capabilities (Excel, Power BI preferred)
• ERP/planning tools knowledge (SAP PP/APO/IBP Planet Together, Kinaxis or equivalent)
• Problem-solving and decision-making skills
• Stakeholder management and communication
• High attention to data accuracy and discipline

• Experience & Education:
• 5–8 years with exposure to co-packers / 3P manufacturing
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering / Supply Chain / Operations, MBA / PGDM
• Preferred: Industry FMCG / Food & Beverage