Paul Desai (Paul)

Senior Management professional with over 23 years of industry experience in turning around businesses, meeting tight deadlines on shipment, revenue, manufacturing, greenfield set-ups, plant management, and operations management for  Automotive, FMCG, Electronics,  Connector, Metal Stamping, and Plastic injection molding industry.

People Management and team building are one of the key areas across my career ranging from 15 to 2000+ people directly managed, trained, and mentored.

PROFILE SUMMARY

• Versatile leader with international exposure in working in Thailand, Australia, Germany (14+years)
• Exhibited excellence in managing the functions of plant set-up, policies & procedures implementation, budget formulation, quality assurance and control; tackled growth challenges for the plant with focus on accelerating plant performance and enhancing operational efficiency
• Exhibited excellence in managing erection & commissioning of various equipment involving resource planning, in-process inspection, team building and co-ordination with internal departments
• Impressive success across all phases of business, including setting up & commissioning state-of-the-art & commissioning manufacturing systems, plants and in restructuring & turnaround of plants
• Decisive, strategic and performance-driven professional with merit of delivering transformational change in Plant; directed functions for P&L, Strategic Planning, Production, Maintenance, Tool Maintenance, Quality, Logistics, Engineering, Cost Optimization, Process Improvements, HR, Stakeholder & Team Management
• Gained exposure in working on industries like Automation for factory (design and development), Automotive Tooling Mfg., consumer plastic, Fibre optic connector Industry, Opto-mechanical sensor assembly, hard disc suspension manufacturing & application tooling industry, EMS & Manufacturing Industry
• Managed capital expenditures (CAPEX) and professional services entailing preparation of strategies, risk assessments, governance guidelines and policies, tendering, contract preparation, procurement management and planning, benefit savings, bid evaluations, supplier negotiations and vendor selection and approvals
• Career milestones includes setting up of new factory in Ahmedabad as Green Field Project for Koko of size 1 million Sq. Feet, defining the capacity, cost, statutory compliance, contract manufacturing, supply chain ramp up to 10x times for Koko, setting up CKD assembly unit for Koko in Kenya and defining business strategy and model for rapid expansion and scaling up; recruited almost 485 persons for Koko since 2019 till date

Achieving professional excellence in monitoring production, process rationalization, manufacturing flow harmonization and bottleneck & defect identification for improving efficiency with enhanced customer orientation and focus