Director - Plant Operations

Job Purpose and Impact

The Plant Operations Director will build and lead our manufacturing organization multiple manufacturing plants across different states in India & Sri Lanka, enabling business to operate in a safe, responsible and sustainable manner while delivering value to our customers. You will oversee efficient and timely operation of our business value stream including order intake, manufacturing, and product delivery.
We seek a professional who will draw on best practices and methods from the business and within the industry to exceed expectations for quality, reliability, cost, delivery, and responsiveness and continuously improve our integrated supply chain.

Key Accountabilities

• Translate our strategy into building manufacturing capabilities to produce exceptional results for our customers and enabling business growth.
• Develop and sustain a competitive plant operations footprint that enables the business's short- and long-term performance objectives.
• Partner with key stakeholder to develop and sustain our total quality program leading to limited cost of nonconformance across the enterprise.
• Drive the adoption of manufacturing excellence capabilities and ensure implementation across the facilities of the business.
• Champion the environment and sustainability goals of the organization while driving the implementation and visibility of best practices, audit methodologies and continuous improvement across the business.
• Provide strategic leadership, development and talent management activities for direct reports and their organizations, which may include forecasting resource needs, recruiting, hiring, performance management, training and budgeting. You will also collaborate with managers and supervisors in your organization to ensure staff selections align with current and future needs.
• Other duties as assigned

• Bachelor's degree in engineering
• Minimum of 15 years of experience in manufacturing, five years of supervisory experience, leading multiple manufacturing plants
• Collaboration mindset and ability to build trust and work through conflict in a constructive manner.
• Systems thinking, ability to envision end to end and see interdependencies.
• Business acumen and an understanding of competitive economics.
• Ability to anticipate and balance the needs of multiple stakeholders.
• Prior experience developing business or function strategies and translating them into annual business plans.
• Consistent record of developing leadership and technical capabilities in others and building successors for the future.
• Confirmed experience engaging and leading large teams in plant operations and supply chain.
• Other minimum qualifications may apply

• Masters in Business Administration

We are a family company providing food, ingredients, agricultural solutions and industrial products that are vital for living. We connect farmers with markets so they can prosper. We connect customers with ingredients so they can make meals people love. And we connect families with daily essentials - from eggs to edible oils, salt to skincare, feed to alternative fuel.

Today, the need to make our food system more sustainable and resilient is urgent. Sitting at the heart of the global supply chain, we have a unique ability, and responsibility, to help. Through innovations, strategic partnerships, and 159 years of experience, we help businesses grow, and communities and people around the world flourish — today, and for generations to come.