Madhusudan GM

Strategic leader with a track record of driving manufacturing operations with global manufacturing companies in the fields of Building materials, Ceramics (Glass Frits & Tiles) and FMCG. Extensive-hands-on operational leadership experience with P&L responsibility for implementing strategic operational goals to exceed customer expectations for product quality, cost & delivery. Proactive team leader devoted to continuous improvement, promoting operational excellence and engaging teams to achieve business objectives. Ensure that Health, Safety, and Environmental systems are prioritized and facilitated, direct and drive implementation of WCM (Lean Business strategy) and drive Continuous Improvement across all manufacturing-related areas of the business.

• Significant experience in driving overall plant Operations (in sync with company's mission and strategic direction as conveyed through policy deployment); inclusive of implementing continuous process improvements to minimize waste and reduce costs while maximizing quality and yield. 
• Ensure that the operation is run with the highest standards of safety, occupational health and environment culture.
• Achieve and strive to continuously improve upon the Key Plant performance indicators.
• Merit of being an Accredited Instructor for World Class Manufacturing (Lean Manufacturing) who led the WCM implementation; recognized with Bronze Award for successful implementation of WCM in plant through WCM techniques to achieve best performance in KPIs.
• Formulating annual financial budget, evaluate periodic labour cost, overhead cost, material cost to ensure effective cost management.
• Guide and provide direction for improvements in environment systems to ensure 100% compliance to local statutes and Group standards.
• Proficient in analyzing production systems/ processes, identifying bottlenecks and steering continuous improvement
• Formulate short and long range plans for expansion of plant facilities, modifications and improvements. 
• Lead the process of New Product development and work in close tandem with sales team for development of new products in line with the business plan.
• Effectively managed teams to meet the needs of market, underpinning a positive and committed organization culture and ensuring appropriate professional development of team members
• Working on talent pool and succession planning of the management cadre and workforce, appraising their KRA based performance and providing feedback on the same
• Making the optimum utilization of available resources, new developments, engineering & maintaining statutory compliance related to statutes.
• Supervising the projects from conceptualisation to completion while ensuring resource optimisation and completing the project within time and budget parameters
• Review and put-up project proposal or plan to determine time frame, financial limitations, procedures for project.
• Planning, estimation based on base line & align budget approval accordingly as approved by Management.
• Conducting research on available vendors to determine which vendors offer the best pricing and product quality.
• Scheduling projects involving basic & detailed engineering activities in coordination with consultants.
• Finalization of Technical specification /requirements as per prior experience with optimized CAPEX.
• Implementation of Safe work practices during Project Implementation
• Provide project status reports /MIS of project milestone, risks and project results.

Bachelor of Engineering from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore.