Chief Operating Officer

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Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Job summary

Unknown company in the specialty chemicals sector is seeking a COO to provide strategic and operational leadership. The role focuses on manufacturing excellence, scalability, and profitable growth across multiple sites.

The COO will drive process innovation, supply chain resilience, and regulatory compliance while engaging with global customers and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 20+ years of progressive experience in Specialty Chemicals, Fine Chemicals, Advanced Materials or Chemical Manufacturing.
• At least 5 years at COO / President Operations / Chief Manufacturing Officer / Cluster Manufacturing Head level.
• Experience reporting directly to a Promoter, CEO, MD or Board.
• Proven leadership of multi-site manufacturing operations and export-oriented operations.

Responsibilities

• Strategic & Operational Leadership across multiple manufacturing locations.
• Manufacturing & Operations Excellence.
• Greenfield Projects & Capacity Expansion.
• EHS, Sustainability & Process Safety.
• Supply Chain & Customer Fulfillment.
• Financial Performance & Value Creation.
• Quality & Regulatory Excellence.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Manufacturing excellence

Global customer management

Operational scalability

Education

B.E./B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering

MBA in Operations/Strategy/Finance

Job description

Industry: Specialty Chemicals / Advanced Chemical Manufacturing

About the Role

We are seeking an accomplished Chief Operating Officer (COO) to provide strategic and operational leadership across a rapidly growing specialty chemicals organization.

The COO will be responsible for driving manufacturing excellence, operational scalability, profitable growth, process innovation, supply-chain resilience, EHS, quality, technology commercialization, projects and organizational capability building across multiple manufacturing locations and business support functions.

The role will be central to translating the organization's growth strategy into operational execution, while ensuring safe, compliant, cost-effective, customer-focused and globally competitive operations.

Organization Context

The organization is a publicly listed specialty chemicals company with multiple manufacturing facilities, an R&D centre, international subsidiaries and a greenfield manufacturing project under development.

The organization serves domestic and international customers across 35+ countries.

Key Responsibilities

• 1. Strategic & Operational Leadership
• 2. Manufacturing & Operations Excellence
• 3. Greenfield Projects & Capacity Expansion
• 5. EHS, Sustainability & Process Safety
• 6. Supply Chain & Customer Fulfillment
• 7. Financial Performance & Value Creation
• 8. Quality & Regulatory Excellence

Candidate Profile

Education

Mandatory

• B.E./B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering, or

Preferred

• IIT / ICT / NIT / other premier institutions.
• MBA in Operations, Strategy or Finance would be an advantage.

Experience

• 20+ years of progressive experience in Specialty Chemicals, Fine Chemicals, Advanced Materials or Chemical Manufacturing.
• At least 5 years at COO / President Operations / Chief Manufacturing Officer / Cluster Manufacturing Head level.
• Experience reporting directly to a Promoter, CEO, MD or Board.
• Proven leadership of:
  • Multi-site manufacturing operations
  • Export-oriented operations.

Preferred Industry & Technical Exposure

Experience in one or more of the following will be strongly preferred:

• Specialty Chemicals
• Continuous Flow Chemistry
• Electrochemistry
• High-Purity Chemical Manufacturing
• New Plant Commissioning
• Global Customer Management

Ideal Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate is a senior chemical-industry operator who can simultaneously think like a business leader, operate like a manufacturing transformation leader and execute like a greenfield-project owner—with the credibility to engage the Board, technical teams, global customers and large frontline organisations.