Role Context:
This role is positioned as a critical leadership anchor within the SCMLogistics function, working closely with the overall SCM leadership to drive operational excellence, resilience, and scale. The incumbent will play a pivotal role in shaping logistics strategy while ensuring flawless execution, particularly across high-volume road and rail movements in a manufacturing environment.
The position requires a professional who combines strategic depth with hands-on operational command, and who can seamlessly step in to lead complex logistics operations when required.
Candidate Requirements
Education
- B.Tech / B.E. (Mandatory)
- Post-Graduate qualification in Supply Chain Management (MBA / PGDM / equivalent Mandatory)
Experience
- 15+ years of experience in Supply Chain / Logistics within the manufacturing sector.
- Demonstrated expertise in managing large-scale road and rail logistics operations.
- Experience working in complex, multi-stakeholder industrial environments.
- Exposure to high-volume, asset-intensive industries (steel, metals, cement, power, heavy engineering) preferred.
Key Accountabilities:
- Drive end-to-end logistics operations across road and rail for inbound, outbound, and inter-unit movements.
- Translate SCM priorities into robust logistics execution plans, ensuring cost, service, and safety objectives are consistently met.
- Lead freight strategy, transporter development, contract negotiations, and performance governance.
- Own railway coordination, rake planning, route optimization, and multimodal logistics efficiency.
- Partner closely with manufacturing, projects, sales, commercial, and finance teams to enable uninterrupted operations.
- Play an active role in capacity planning, disruption management, and contingency readiness.
- Strengthen process discipline, digitization initiatives, and continuous improvement within logistics.
- Provide leadership, guidance, and mentoring to senior logistics teams, building long-term functional capability.
- Ensure full compliance with statutory, safety, and regulatory requirements governing transportation and logistics.
What We're Looking For
- Strong commercial acumen and understanding of logistics cost drivers
- Ability to operate with strategic perspective and execution rigor
- High level of ownership, judgment, and operational maturity
- Confident stakeholder management across internal leadership and external partners
- Leadership presence with the ability to influence outcomes without formal escalation
