Manager - Production (API)

Centrient Pharmaceuticals; Balachaur; Presencial; INR 2.500.000 - 3.600.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Centrient Pharmaceuticals seeks a seasoned leader to head API manufacturing operations, ensuring safe, efficient, and compliant production aligned with cGMP and regulatory expectations. The role emphasizes strengthening quality culture and driving process standardization, data integrity, and continuous improvement.

The ideal candidate has 12–20 years in API manufacturing, with a strong background in GMP, team leadership, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver performance improvements and

Formación

• 12–20 years of API manufacturing experience.
• Postgraduate degree in science/engineering.
• Strong GMP/regulatory knowledge and compliance track record.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams in manufacturing operations.
• Lean/Six Sigma experience and process improvement orientation.

Responsabilidades

• Plan, organize, and control API manufacturing activities and optimize plant capacity utilization.
• Monitor batch execution, yield, cycle time, and resource utilization.
• Support deviation closure, customer complaints, change control and audit actions.
• Maintain audit readiness and adherence to SOPs, BPRs, and quality systems.
• Drive continuous improvement and cost-saving initiatives across manufacturing.

Conocimientos

API Manufacturing Expertise

Leadership & Team Management

Problem Solving & Analytical Skills

cGMP & Regulatory Knowledge

Data Analysis & Decision Making

Coping with pressures & setbacks

Manufacturing & Technical Knowledge

Communication & Stakeholder Management

Educación

M.Sc. / Chemical Engineering

Descripción del empleo

Purpose of the Role:-

To lead API manufacturing operations through effective supervision and team management, ensuring sustainable operational performance, production targets are achieved safely, efficiently, and in compliance with cGMP, regulatory requirements and business objectives. In addition to this, strengthening quality culture through robust implementation of GMP, quality systems, process standardization, data integrity, and continuous improvement programs.

Key Individual Accountabilities:-

• Production management: Plan, organize, and control API manufacturing activities. Optimize plant capacity utilization,

Monitor batch execution, Yield, Cycle time, and resource utilization.

• Participate, support & timely Closure of deviation, customer complaints, change control and Audit compliance actions
• Maintain audit readiness at all times and adherence to SOPs, BPRs, and quality systems
• Identify improvement ideas from Daily cycle to improve efficiency & productivity
• Supervise manufacturing activities throughout the production process equipment and monitor process parameters
• Facilitate root cause analysis & problem-solving initiatives to address quality & operational issues
• Ensure compliance with GMP, regulatory requirements, corporate standards, and customer expectations
• Collaborate with QA, QC, Engineering, EHS, Warehouse, Supply Chain, Procurement RA & Finance
• Drive Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, and Operational Excellence programs

Key Shared Accountabilities:-

• Build strong cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder engagement to deliver results
• Ensure decisions are data-driven, risk-based, & aligned with business and compliance priorities
• Equipment Reliability & Asset Management
• Production Delivery & Customer Supply
• Support technical team for new projects & stabilization of new installations

Key Leadership behaviors:-

• Cross functional collaboration
• Quality & Compliance Mindset
• Lead the shift supervisor and team
• Easy to adaptability to change
• Continuous Improvement Mindset
• Takes ownership of plant performance
• Developing others and clear communication

KPIs:-

• No critical audit & repeat observation and Customer complaint
• Recordable Injuries / LOPC : No
• Daily production plan adherence (%) & OEE Equipment utilization (%)
• Meeting Mopex/Opex numbers as per annual budget
• Timely implementation of cost-saving projects
• Right First Time (RFT) batches (%)
• Status of cleanliness, Plant Integrity & Housekeeping and GMP compliance

Required Competencies:-

• API Manufacturing Expertise
• Leadership & Team Management
• Problem Solving & Analytical Skills
• cGMP & Regulatory Knowledge
• Data Analysis and Decision Making
• Coping with pressures & setbacks
• Manufacturing & Technical Knowledge
• Communication & Stakeholder Management

Minimum years of experience:-

12 to 20 years

Education:-

M.Sc. / Chemical Engineering