Open Secret - Production Head

About Open Secret

Open Secret is a brand with a vision to make every Indian family snack better. Powered by a strong operating team of strategists and marketers from Harvard Business School, IIM, and IIT with 40+ years of collective FMCG experience and backed by the strongest set of mentors - Matrix, Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Kunal Bahl, Rohit Bansal, and Vivek Gambhir.

The goal is to become the most preferred snacking brand for families by un-junking their favourite snacks. Open Secret is currently available through their website at https://opensecret.in, multiple ecommerce platforms, and across offline stores Pan India where they sell their entire range of un-junked snacks including; Nutty Cookies, Nutty Chips, Flavoured Nuts, Nutty Shake Mixes and Nutty Spreads.

About The CEO And Co-Founder

Ahana Gautam is an experienced operator with a passion to build and grow the biggest consumer brands in India. She has a B.Tech from IIT Bombay and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She started her career at P&G where she worked across multiple functions - supply chain, finance and marketing. Ahana grew her passion for food brands at General Mills in the US where she launched natural and organic products.

Role & Responsibility

• Owning Production for a multi-category plant in equivalent capacity as a Plant Head - across 2 shifts of operations at Bhandup, Mumbai.
• Managing a team of 6-8 reportees including Production Managers (2), Production supervisors (4-6) and dotted reporting from other department Supervisors.
• End-to-end production process ownership and systems ownership at Plant - owning the KPIs for productivity and production yield/losses.
• Responsible for deployment of 5S & FIFO processes to ensure material handling as per best quality systems and processes.
• Engineering/automation solutions for increasing productivity and production capacity of the lines.
• Responsible for military discipline within the team of 100+ Contract labor across 2 shifts
• Also responsible for process optimization at CM sites - soft touch on Productivity and Conversion cost KPIs there.
• Coordination with Supply Chain team for ensuring smooth production and inventory visibility.
• Coordination with Procurement team to ensure smooth material availability at all Experience
• Ex-military rank holding officer preferred.
• Preferably 2-5 years operations/corporate experience preferred. ( Food background only)
  
  

Educational background: Preferably engineering or MBA, open to other graduate streams as well. Bachelor's degree is a pre-requisite.

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