Operations Team Lead

Operations Team Lead
A leading European manufacturer establishing its India shared-services centre
Location: Remote (India)
The shared-services floor you would lead
A European manufacturer is building out its India shared-services centre and has engaged Flexiple to place the team lead who will run one of its frontline operations pods from day one. The centre is past its first hiring wave and is now adding a management layer between individual contributors and the operations manager, so this is a seat with real people-management scope rather than a title change on an existing job.
Running the pod
Shift and people management
Supervise a pod of eight to twelve operations executives across shifts
Own daily huddles, attendance, and workload distribution
Coach new joiners and handle first-line performance conversations
Escalate to the operations manager only what genuinely needs escalating
Quality and reporting
Track SLA and quality metrics for the pod and flag slippage early
Maintain SOPs and update them as processes change
Run root-cause checks on recurring errors and fix the process, not just the ticket
Prepare the daily and weekly reporting the operations manager reviews
What gets you shortlisted
3 to 7 years in operations, shared services, or business-process roles, including at least one year supervising a small team
Comfort reading SLA and quality dashboards and acting on them
Working knowledge of Excel or Google Sheets for shift and metric tracking
Clear spoken and written English for cross-shift handovers
A step up if you have it
Exposure to a manufacturing or shared-services environment
Familiarity with ticketing or workforce-management tools
Prior experience training or onboarding new team members
What the seat comes with
A first line-management seat inside a European manufacturer's India centre
On-site placement in Pune or Chennai with a defined growth path to operations manager
Structured shift patterns and a stable, process-driven work environment
How this gets decided
HR Screening → Assignment → Floor Walkthrough → Manager Round
One application is considered for this role and any other matched opening in the same cycle.

Work arrangement
Yes