Manufacturing Owner

You’ll be our: Manufacturing Owner

You’ll be based at:  IBC Knowledge Park, Bangalore

You’ll be aligned with: COO

You’ll be a member of:Operations Vertical

What you’ll do at Ather:

• Breakdown organization OKRs assigned to the horizontal into program objectives, defining stories against it, and prioritizing the swimlane’s backlog to streamline execution, while maintaining conceptual and technical integrity of the OKR. 

• Take ownership of the Horizontal/P&L and achieve Key Results that are linked to Org OKRs. Propose, decide, and allocate capital and resources to the P&L, keeping in mind resource constraints

• Define overall metrics against each KR, to evaluate movement in program objectives. 

• Take accountability of all the dotted line reporting of all the relevant team members in the P&L, ensuring the right structure and functioning of the horizontal

• Maintain dashboards of each horizontal’s KPIs and resource and capital allocation to evaluate progress towards OKRs vs cost

• Define capital allocation for the FY, and revise and review each quarter

• Present the horizontal KPIs and progress during P&L reviews and seek intervention or help from management team wherever required

• Iteratively and proactively communicate changes in dependencies to the swimlane, other P&L Owners, and other stakeholders, and assist with decision-making and sequencing of critical changes

• Work with other swimlanes and their manufacturing owners on getting inputs to solution development as well as deploying solutions developed by IMM team

• Work with program manager on steering and running of the horizontal, resolving any prioritization conflicts and taking measured risks to break any impasse

• Work with program manager on culture building within the horizontal, ensuring that Ather’s TAAS values are lived

• Work with other Manufacturing Owners and Product Owners to arrive at the right objective/true north that help achieve the Org OKRs

• Work with Functional managers to identify right resource and give the right feedback back to functional managers on their representatives

• Work with Functional managers for building capacity and capability of functional representatives in the horizontal 

• Work with Finance partner to budget, track, and adjust capital inflow, outflow, and cost allocations, based on changes in priorities

Here’s what we are looking for: 

• A passionate engineering manager who has strong knack to think strategically

• Ability to think in scenarios

• Good business acumen along with good decision making skills

• Clear and effective communication

• Willingness and ability to engage stakeholders at multiple levels within the organization and bring the right change through influence

You bring to Ather:

• B.E/M. E in Industrial/Production/ Electrical / Mechanical engineering from a reputed institute (Tier 1 Preferred)

• MBA in operations or supply chain management is preferred

• 8-12 years’ experience in Production Engineering/Warehouse management/ Manufacturing Engineering/Industrial Engineering

• Sound experience  in material and information flow management within manufacturing

• Experience in greenfield setups - (Production lines/Plants)

• Dedicated time spent on manufacturing and warehouse management

• Exposure to Logistics from a strategic and operational perspective

• Basic Digital competency and I4.0 Know how is a must