Managing Partner – Sector Advisory — Precision-Engineering Division

The mandate

Precision manufacturers seeking to strengthen operational rigour often add inspection layers, containment protocols and corrective-action registers. Yet drawings, process capability, measurement, supplier variation and management decisions can remain disconnected. This advisory partnership is creating a sector leadership role to help boards build integrated quality systems that deliver sustained performance.

The Managing Partner will influence approximately 2,350 employees and material partners across quality, operations, engineering, supply chain, data and organisation practices. They will originate and lead quality recoveries in automotive, aerospace, industrial and other close-tolerance manufacturing. The practice must be independent enough to challenge clients and disciplined enough not to assume line authority or certify its own advice.

Quality recovery begins with product and process risk. Teams need to reconstruct escapes, validate measurement, establish configuration and understand where process control failed. The adviser must bring specialists together but retain the executive view: customer protection, production continuity, cash, leadership and culture.

Supplier quality cannot be solved through scorecards alone. Lower-tier processes, special-process approvals, tooling and change notification may sit outside visibility. Engagement design must include field evidence and enforceable client ownership, not consultant sampling that disappears at exit.

The practice should also resist excessive compliance. Controls that add no risk reduction create delay and teach employees to work around the system. The partner will expect teams to simplify after evidence stabilises.

Customer governance during recovery requires particular skill. Manufacturers may have several customers affected by the same process, each demanding different containment and reporting. The Managing Partner will help clients create one technical truth, protect confidential programme information and negotiate evidence-based release rather than run competing corrective systems. When safety or regulatory duties require broader notification, commercial sensitivity cannot override responsible disclosure.

Digital quality analytics can accelerate pattern detection but cannot replace validated measurement or causal work. The practice may use genealogy, image or process data only where source, bias and decision authority are understood. Teams must be able to explain why a population is at risk and reproduce the analysis without a proprietary black box.

Why this seat is open

The regional council approved a planned new role as client demand grew beyond the existing operations practice. No incumbent is leaving. Investment in laboratories, digital quality and sector talent will follow the Managing Partner's proposition and safeguards rather than precede them.

What you will own

• Define an evidence-led quality recovery offering spanning containment, root cause, process capability, supplier control and management system.
• Originate board-sponsored work where the firm has competence and independent standing.
• Lead critical customer, regulator or certification governance alongside accountable client executives.
• Establish methods for configuration, measurement, corrective action, validation and sustained-control testing.
• Integrate operating, financial, data and organisation consequences into recovery plans.
• Govern alliance laboratories and specialists with transparent independence and evidence standards.
• Build partners, directors and technical leaders capable of running plant work.
• Protect engagement quality, margin, collections, conflicts and outcome review.

The first 12 months

In 90 days, review active pursuits and quality assignments, visit client plants and define acceptance and escalation boundaries. Lead one diagnostic from escaped characteristic through process and leadership cause. Re-scope any proposal that promises certification or closure beyond the firm's authority.

By month six, take two clients through controlled recovery gates, establish independent validation and publish one evidence-based sector perspective without client-identifying claims. Create a specialist network and develop leaders beneath partner level. Every engagement should name client control owners and post-exit tests.

At twelve months, priority clients should close agreed high-risk findings with no repeat across two independent cycles, improve first-pass yield or customer escapes materially and sustain control after adviser withdrawal. The practice should meet revenue, contribution and collection targets, have zero independence breach and enable two directors to lead significant recovery workstreams.

What the board will measure

• Client quality and customer outcomes sustained beyond audit closure.
• Independent evidence and willingness to challenge optimistic remediation.
• Quality revenue and commercially responsible scope acceptance.
• Integration of plant, supplier, data and leadership interventions.
• Professional independence across laboratories, certifiers and connected clients.
• Practice depth beyond the Managing Partner.

The person

You have 28+ years in precision manufacturing, quality leadership or industrial advisory and have led a serious recovery after customer escape, certification concern or systemic process failure. Operating executives with a credible advisory business and current partners with direct plant implementation are relevant.

Your accountable experience should include more than ₹4,000 crore of operations or client portfolio and influence across 1,600 employees and partners. You can explain a containment removed, a root cause initially resisted and how recurrence was independently tested. The partner council will examine conflicts, technical humility and talent development.

This onsite Ahmedabad advisory role entails extensive client and plant travel and reports to global and regional partnership governance.

Compensation and terms

The fixed range is ₹5.0–7.5 crore plus performance variable and long-term incentive, calibrated to partnership entry and verified business. Client outcomes, revenue quality, independence, collaboration and talent determine reward. This advisory appointment is onsite in Ahmedabad with extensive travel and reports through the Global Managing Partner and regional partner council.

Confidentiality

The firm, clients, products, escapes and recovery work are confidential. Case detail follows reciprocal relevance, conflict clearance and written confidentiality. Scale and situations are combined; candidates must not contact certification bodies, customers, suppliers or employees to infer identities.