Manager, Strategic Initiatives – Operations | Office of the Managing Director

Job Description
About the Role
Reporting directly to the Managing Director, you will anchor the company's most critical initiatives: capacity expansions, operational excellence programs, and cross-business-unit improvements. You will turn strategic priorities into delivered results across our plants in India and our international operations. This is an operator's role at the centre of a newly listed, fast-growing engineering company.
Key Responsibilities
Deliver growth and expansion projects — own execution of capex programs, including new capacity, machinery and facility builds, from planning through commissioning, on time and within budget.
Drive capacity and productivity — improve asset utilisation, throughput and cost across manufacturing units, working with plant and BU heads.
Strengthen working capital and cash flow — lead initiatives across inventory, order-to-cash and procurement to improve the cash conversion cycle.
Build supply chain resilience — work with procurement on vendor development, dual sourcing and long-term supply arrangements for critical raw materials.
Improve order-to-delivery execution — strengthen S&OP and project delivery for large project and OEM orders.
Support international operations — coordinate initiatives with overseas subsidiaries and JV partners.
Run the operating rhythm — set up project governance, dashboards and review cadence so the MD and board have a clear, current view of progress on strategic commitments.
Act as the MD's extension — prepare board and leadership materials, build business cases for new opportunities, and follow through on decisions across functions.
Required Qualifications
B.E./B.Tech in Electrical, Electronics, Instrumentation or Industrial Engineering — technical fluency matters given our products are sensors, heaters and cables.
3+ years in manufacturing operations, operations strategy, or program management in an engineering or industrial company.
A record of taking initiatives from concept to measurable results across multiple functions.
Working knowledge of operations, supply chain and quality management.
Strong analytical and financial skills, including building and defending business cases.
Ability to influence senior stakeholders without direct authority.
Preferred Candidate Profile
MBA in Operations or Strategy from a reputed institute.
Experience with capex projects, plant expansions or greenfield/brownfield setups.
Exposure to Lean, Six Sigma, TPM or S&OP.
Experience in a listed company, or one preparing for listing.
Exposure to international operations, JVs or overseas partners.
Background in industrial products: instrumentation, cables, electrical equipment, process industries.
Comfortable on the shop floor as well as in a board review; brings structure to ambiguity, moves fast without losing rigour, and measures success by outcomes delivered.
What You Will Get
Direct access to, and mentorship from, the Managing Director.
A front-row view of how a newly listed engineering company scales in India and abroad.
Ownership of initiatives that directly shape the company's growth.
A clear path into senior roles, such as plant or BU leadership or head of strategy.
Role Objective
To convert the Managing Director's strategic priorities into delivered operational results — expanding capacity, strengthening execution and supply chain resilience, and building the governance rhythm needed to scale Tempsens as a newly listed, fast-growing engineering company.
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