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Chief Executive Officer - Ports & Terminals - Chennai

Chief Executive Officer - Ports & Terminals - Chennai

DP World
Fresher
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Job Description

Key responsibilities

Business & P&L Ownership -

  • Own end-to-end financial and operating performance of the business unit, ensuring delivery of revenue, margin, cost, and profitability targets

  • Translate enterprise priorities into clear operating plans, performance rhythms, and measurable outcomes

  • Drive performance visibility through disciplined review mechanisms, early risk identification, and corrective actions

  • Balance growth, cost, and service trade-offs to ensure sustainable business performance

  • Maintain strong financial discipline and value-focused decision making aligned with long-term business objectives

Product, Service & Customer Performance -

  • Develop a strong understanding of product, service, and operational capabilities to ensure market relevance and competitiveness

  • Ensure reliable, consistent, and high-quality service delivery across customer touchpoints

  • Partner closely with Sales to enable conversion, solution feasibility, and customer commitments, without direct ownership of sales

  • Provide market, customer, and operational insights to strengthen positioning and win probability

  • Ensure execution excellence delivers on customer promises, safeguarding credibility and retention

Execution & Operational Effectiveness -

  • Drive day-to-day operational performance, ensuring alignment to strategic priorities and customer commitments

  • Remove structural and cross functional barriers to improve speed, efficiency, and service reliability

  • Balance cost, service, quality, and risk considerations in complex operating environments

  • Establish strong execution cadence, accountability mechanisms, and performance discipline

  • Reinforce a results orientation over activity-based management, ensuring consistent delivery outcomes

Matrix Collaboration & Commercial Alignment -

  • Work effectively within a matrix structure, aligning closely with Sales, Finance, HR, and enabling functions

  • Enable commercial success through strong partnership with Sales, ensuring delivery capability matches customer commitments

  • Align diverse stakeholders around shared priorities, sequencing decisions, and accountability

  • Influence without authority to resolve trade-offs between commercial ambition and operational feasibility

  • Reinforce enterprise-first mindset, ensuring BU success contributes to broader organizational value

Leadership, Culture & Capability Building -

  • Build and sustain a high accountability, high-performance culture anchored in ownership and execution excellence

  • Develop strong bench strength and functional capability within the business unit

  • Lead and coach teams to operate with clarity, discipline, and agility in execution

  • Drive engagement and alignment across cross-functional teams despite structural boundaries

  • Embed a culture of continuous improvement, ownership, and delivery excellence

QUALIFICATIONS & COMPETENCIES

Skills and Competencies

  • 20+years of experience

Behavioral Competencies :

  • Drives results

  • Ensures accountability

  • Balances stakeholders

  • Strategic Mindset

  • Decision quality

  • Collaborates

  • Customer focus

  • Builds effective teams

  • Courage

  • Manages ambiguity

  • Cultivate Innovation

Stakeholder

Internal:Board of Directors, RegionalLeadership Team, BU Leadership team, Employees Unions etc.,

External: Govt Authorities, CHPA, Customs etc.,

  • Educational Qualification (min)

Masters degree

  • Preferred Certifications if any

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  • Range/ Min no of years - of overall Experience required

  • Min no of years of Industry specific experience required, if any & the industry type

20 + years of experience

20 years

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