AVP - OPERATIONS

Nitika Pharmaceutical Specialities Pvt. Ltd; Nagpur District; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Nikita Pharmaceutical Specialities Pvt. Ltd. in Nagpur (Rural), India, seeks an AVP of Operations to oversee complete plant operations, drive profitability, and lead cross-functional teams.

The role emphasizes safety, quality, service, and cost optimization within an Excipients manufacturing environment. Candidate should have extensive pharma industry experience, strong leadership, and a track record of implementing 5S/Kaizen/Lean for manufacturing excellence.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in pharma manufacturing
• Proven track record in plant operations and cost control
• Experience with 5S, Kaizen and Lean methods
• Strong focus on safety, quality and process improvements
• Exposure to P&L management and budgeting
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams across functions

Responsibilities

• Spearhead overall plant operations to meet organisational profit targets
• Manage P&L, formulate business plans and budgets for the plant
• Develop and implement health, safety, and environmental management systems
• Drive strategic initiatives to increase turnover and optimize costs
• Lead the plant team and provide direction for safety, quality, service and efficiency
• Oversee process improvements to reduce rejection rates and cycle times

Skills

Leadership

Operations management

Lean Manufacturing

Quality management

Job description

Nitika Pharmaceutical Specialities Pvt. Ltd | Full time

AVP - OPERATIONS

Nagpur (Rural), India | Posted on 04/10/2026

1. Spearheading entire plant operations asper the goals of organization and ensured the achievement of plant profittargets

2. Managing P&Loperations, formulating business plans & budgets and directingmanufacturing operations through business excellence philosophy

3. Devising health safety management systems for maintaining soundenvironmental and safety conditions

4. Help toconsistently increasing business turnover YOY by re-organizing businessdirection and through strategic initiatives & cost control measures at thePlant.

5. A PrincipalExecutive ‘Point of Contact’ for theteam with responsibility of providing overall leadership and direction for all plant operations tocontinuously improve results in safety,quality, service, budget and cost performance.

6. Extensive IndustrialExperience in Excipients Manufacturing Companies

7. Experience in ContinuousDistillation production process

8. Skilled in developingstrategies for managing the production processes by initiating modificationsfor lowering rejection rate, realizing operational efficiencies, controllingvariability, losses costs and reducing the cycle-time and optimizing resources.

9. An asset to theorganization with impressive skills in reducing the cost by integrating operations with lesser operatingtime into existing operations and by replacing labor-intense processes.

10. Leveragedknowledge of Quality Improvement andManufacturing Excellence Tools & Techniques like 5S,Kaizen, Lean; skilled inimplementing process improvement crossvarious project processes to reducerejection levels & cost and ensure high quality standards of projectexecution.

11. Expertise in taking corrective action for any negative trends related to product quality, customer service,capacity, lead time, labour efficiency, space, utilization, yield, and businessprocesses effectiveness.

12. Capable at strategizingand implementing processes modifications to enhance operational efficiency; formulated SOPs of the processes,developed plant facilities, layout & re-drafted master plan

13. Played a key role in leading.

14. Executed various techniques for Safety andMotivation of the Workforce and Employees in plant such as Life Saving Rule’s(LSR) and Way We Work (WWW) Value system for effectively achievingorganizational goals; sharing Global Techniques with Plant Team

15. Designed and Installed Disc type RO plant andImplemented Process optimization for Water Conservation.

16. Inclusiveleader ensuring sustainable growth in productivity,profitability and steering the annual budget planning, cost efficiency in theplant along with optimum usage of fuel and energy

17. Evaluating strategies and processes are in place to meet business objectives andoperational needs in terms of price, quality and delivery targets, whichenables the company to function and compete in the market

18. Identifying improvement projects (Cost, Efficiency and Energy Conservation), guidingand directing project team in order to achieve defined project objectives;supervising Environment, Health and Safety Concerns by addressing issues relatedto Industrial Health, Hygiene & Safety

MUST HAVE SKILLS -

From Pharma Industry

At least worked for 5-6 yrs on same position