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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