Capacity Constraint and Throughput Economics Director

The mandate

This commission will establish a planning model that reflects binding constraints and economic throughput rather than assuming all demand and resources scale smoothly. It is not an operational improvement programme. The consultant must identify the economically relevant constraint logic, integrate it into financial scenarios, test decisions and transfer the method within eight months.

Contracted artifacts are a constraint map, throughput and contribution specification, capacity-step model, scenario library, decision pilot and governance handbook. The work must show how bottlenecks migrate when one constraint is relieved and prevent isolated utilisation improvements from being mistaken for enterprise value.

Six milestones fall at weeks four, nine, fifteen, twenty-two, twenty-eight and thirty-two. The Planning Sponsor accepts the map and specification; joint finance and operations owners accept model and scenarios; the steering group accepts pilot and handbook. Acceptance requires reconciled financial effects, verified capacity logic, sensitivity tests and internal reproduction.

Client inputs include approved aggregate flow and cost information, named process experts, current capacity assumptions, commitment schedules and four historical or forward decisions. Incomplete operational evidence will be shown as a scenario range. The consultant may not infer protected production detail or expand into operational execution.

What you will own

• Identify binding and near-binding constraints using approved aggregate evidence, observation and accountable-owner validation.
• Define throughput economics that distinguish incremental contribution at the constraint from average margin and allocated cost.
• Model capacity steps, lead times, ramp, maintenance, yield and downtime as ranges linked to integrated financial effects.
• Show how relieving one bottleneck changes the constraint location and the value of subsequent interventions.
• Create scenarios for demand mix, capacity loss, step expansion and prioritisation with explicit cash and service consequences.
• Pilot four allocation choices and compare model recommendations with historical outcome or current executive judgement.
• Establish change control for constraint assumptions, including trigger-based refresh and expiry of temporary overrides.
• Transfer the approach through analyst reproduction and a live decision session led entirely by internal owners.

Candidate qualifications

• At least 15 years in FP&A, capacity economics, throughput analysis or operational finance at Director level.
• Evidence that identifying a true constraint changed product, customer, investment or resource prioritisation without disclosing former clients.
• Technical mastery of throughput contribution, bottleneck migration, step capacity, utilisation limits, yield, lead time and integrated modelling.
• A case where improving a local efficiency measure would have reduced enterprise outcome and how you demonstrated it.
• Experience validating operational assumptions while maintaining finance ownership of economic interpretation.
• Ability to use ranges honestly when source evidence cannot support a single capacity estimate.
• Demonstrated transfer of specialist constraint analysis to internal finance teams through live application.

Working terms and boundaries

• The consulting engagement lasts eight months at five days a week and is governed through six milestone acceptances.
• Deliverables cover financial constraint analysis, model, scenarios and pilot; operational redesign and implementation are excluded.
• The consultant can recommend economic prioritisation but cannot direct production, service or capital decisions.
• Aggregate flow data, experts, capacity assumptions, commitments and pilot cases are client-provided dependencies tracked formally.
• Completion requires reconciled scenarios, an accepted four-case pilot, internal reproduction and closure of critical model defects.

Application

Applications for this mandate are received in one way only: through the India Board Terminal's application process. It is automated end to end. Your Executive Passport travels to the mandate holder in its confidential form, your answers to the three questions below are read before anything else in your file, and every stage that follows is recorded on your applications page.

There is no address to write to and no intermediary to call. The mandate holder reads what the Terminal delivers and nothing else, which is what keeps the process the same for every applicant and keeps your name out of it until you release it. Applications close on 8 October 2026. Mandate reference FPA-CON-2026-TPE-36.