Managing Director – India Platform — Export Manufacturing Platform

The mandate

The board has concluded that incremental adjustment will not resolve a mandate to combine previously separate India businesses within a institutionally backed multi-site industrial manufacturing group. The immediate arena is the export manufacturing platform during a footprint consolidation. For mandate 461, the successful executive inherits decisions that have been deferred, competing stakeholder expectations and a need to establish facts before committing further capital.

The Managing Director – India Platform operating perimeter covers approximately ₹12,550 crore in manufacturing and commercial portfolio, with activity spanning several export manufacturing platform customer, product and delivery clusters rather than a single asset. The Managing Director – India Platform Manufacturing remit carries direct influence over roughly 3,050 colleagues and third-party capacity.

The chair, executive committee and principal capital sponsors want a Managing Director – India Platform who can convert ambiguity into a short list of explicit choices for the export manufacturing platform. The Managing Director – India Platform Manufacturing seat must resolve a footprint consolidation, while preserving the underlying strengths of the export manufacturing platform. For mandate 461, value will come through sharper allocation, stronger leaders and an operating cadence that exposes variance early.

The Managing Director – India Platform’s first year on the export manufacturing platform is expected to end with one country plan, integrated governance and profitable scale. In mandate 461, authority covers resources and leadership appointments; material trade-offs go directly to the board sponsor.

Why this seat is open

This is an urgent replacement for the Managing Director – India Platform — Export Manufacturing Platform seat following an accelerated leadership transition. Interim accountability is in place for the export manufacturing platform, but the board wants a permanent appointment within 6–8 weeks because a footprint consolidation cannot remain under split ownership. The predecessor’s outcome is being handled neutrally and professionally. The external search remains confidential until the preferred candidate and transition plan are agreed.

What you will own

• Set the Managing Director – India Platform value-creation thesis for the export manufacturing platform, translate it into no more than five enterprise priorities and stop work that does not support them.
• Carry stewardship of approximately ₹12,550 crore in manufacturing and commercial portfolio, including allocation, risk acceptance and board forecasts.
• Lead the Managing Director – India Platform Manufacturing organisation of about 3,050 employees and partners, appointing a team with clear decision rights and credible succession for every critical seat.
• Resolve the export manufacturing platform economics and execution constraints created by a footprint consolidation, with Managing Director – India Platform-approved owners, dated milestones and transparent escalation thresholds.
• Establish one Managing Director – India Platform operating review across commercial, customer, financial, people, technology and risk outcomes for the export manufacturing platform; remove reconciliations that obscure accountability.
• Have led a country, division or operating entity with direct commercial, people and governance accountability in mandate 461.
• Build the Managing Director – India Platform’s three-year succession and capability plan for the export manufacturing platform, reducing dependence on individual executives and improving mobility across the wider Manufacturing organisation.

The first 12 months

• Days 1–90: Validate the export manufacturing platform baseline, meet the 30 stakeholders most consequential to a mandate to combine previously separate India businesses, assess the leadership team, stabilise immediate delivery risks and agree a board-owned scorecard with explicit decision gates.
• Months 4–9: Make the principal Managing Director – India Platform portfolio and organisation choices for the export manufacturing platform, install the new operating cadence, fill critical leadership gaps and deliver the first measurable release of cash, capacity or customer value.
• Months 10–12: Demonstrate a repeatable export manufacturing platform trend against one country plan, integrated governance and profitable scale, lock the following year’s capital and talent plan, evidence control sustainability and present a credible three-year value case with downside actions.

What the board will measure

• Delivery of the Managing Director – India Platform’s agreed first-year export manufacturing platform value case within a 10% tolerance, with variance explained before rather than after the relevant quarter closes.
• A Managing Director – India Platform forecast that remains decision-useful across three consecutive quarters and reconciles the export manufacturing platform’s operating, cash, customer and people assumptions.
• Closure of the Managing Director – India Platform mandate’s highest-priority export manufacturing platform risk and execution issues by their board-approved dates, with independent evidence that fixes are sustained.
• Retention of at least 90% of critical export manufacturing platform talent and ready-now successors for at least 70% of the Managing Director – India Platform’s direct reports.
• A quantified Managing Director – India Platform-owned improvement in the export manufacturing platform operating constraint behind a footprint consolidation, supported by a clean baseline and named data owner.
• Clear stakeholder confidence in mandate 461: no unresolved high-severity escalation older than 30 days and no material surprise withheld from its agreed governance forum.

The person

You are currently a Country MD, India CEO or Regional Business President in a institutionally backed Manufacturing or adjacent enterprise. In relation to the export manufacturing platform, your Managing Director – India Platform track record includes a transition where the original plan was no longer sufficient; you can explain your choices, evidence and numerical impact. Candidates from industrial manufacturing, engineering, chemicals, automotive components or process industries will be considered where the operating model, customer stakes and governance intensity match this Managing Director – India Platform brief.

As a Managing Director – India Platform candidate, you bring 28+ years of progressive Manufacturing or adjacent-sector experience, consistent with the 28-plus experience band. At minimum, you have carried a P&L, book, budget or accountable portfolio of ₹7,300 crore and led an organisation of at least 2,125 people.

For mandate 461, the board wants two transitions: a difficult export manufacturing platform portfolio choice and a leadership-system change during a footprint consolidation. As the prospective Managing Director – India Platform for this export manufacturing platform, you must challenge optimistic cases and still create followership. References for mandate 461 must distinguish your contribution from the institution around you.

The Managing Director – India Platform role in Manufacturing is based in Pune; relocation is expected, although a structured weekly commute may be considered during the first quarter.

Non-negotiables

• Current or recent accountability at the level of Country MD, India CEO or Regional Business President, with direct exposure to a board, investment committee or equivalent Manufacturing governance forum.
• Proven Managing Director – India Platform ownership of at least ₹7,300 crore and leadership of no fewer than 2,125 employees in a comparable export manufacturing platform context.
• One completed Manufacturing or adjacent-sector example of a mandate to combine previously separate India businesses with outcomes sustained for at least two reporting periods after the initial intervention.
• Sector credibility from industrial manufacturing, engineering, chemicals, automotive components or process industries; experience that is purely functional and lacks Managing Director – India Platform-level export manufacturing platform consequences will not meet the bar.
• Willingness to meet the Pune location expectation, complete conflicts and background diligence, and protect the confidentiality of mandate 461.

Compensation and terms

The anticipated Managing Director – India Platform package is ₹5.0–7.5 crore fixed + performance variable and LTI, calibrated to the final export manufacturing platform scope and the candidate’s current mix. Any long-term participation for mandate 461 follows standard vesting and performance conditions. The Managing Director – India Platform appointment in Pune, centred on the export manufacturing platform, offers regular exposure to the chair, executive committee and principal capital sponsors. A notice period of up to 6 months can be accommodated for the selected executive in mandate 461.

Confidentiality

The organisation will be identified only after reciprocal interest and a confidentiality undertaking for mandate 461. The market, scale and situation in this brief are intentionally composite and are not a coded description of a named enterprise for mandate 461.