Today TGBL, renamed to Tata Consumer Products, is home to well-loved brands – Tata Tea, Tetley, Tata Salt, Eight O’Clock Coffee, Himalayan Water and emerging brands like Tata Sampann, Tata Soulfull, Tata Gluco Plus and Tata Water Plus.
Our offerings are rooted in the core Tata values of responsibility and welfare of the community. Our brands are present in over 40 countries with a diverse workforce spread across the world.
As Tata Consumer, we aim to deliver high-quality, sustainable, and innovative products, that will delight consumers and create lasting value for all our stakeholders.
Deputy General Manager – Production
- Date: 29 Sept 2026
- Location: IN
- Company: Tata Consumer Products Limited
- Function: Product Supply Organization
Job Description:
Job Statement/Job Purpose:
- Own the production strategy and deliver annual, monthly and daily operating plans for SDC, with governance across Agglomeration and Packing interfaces.
- Provide visibility on safety and ensure full compliance with HIRA, OCP, FMEA, LOTO, work-permit, process-safety and incident-prevention requirements.
- Ensure product quality, food safety, hygiene and sanitation in line with GMP, HACCP, BRC&IFS, FSMS, QMS and EMS requirements.
- Lead production managers and shift teams through clear priorities, governance routines, performance reviews, capability building and succession planning.
- Set and govern critical process standards across extraction, concentration, spray drying and related operations to deliver stable quality and throughput.
- Partner with Engineering and Maintenance on asset reliability strategy, preventive maintenance, shutdown planning, critical spares and capacity-risk mitigation.
- Own production cost, yield, throughput, utility consumption, process loss, packing loss and productivity performance against ABP commitments.
- Ensure robust SAP governance, material reconciliation, inventory accuracy, production MIS, controls and timely month-end closure.
- Support NPD.
- Build and govern the production improvement portfolio covering PIT, Kaizen, Lean, cost optimisation, sustainability, water and energy reduction.
- Ensure audit and statutory readiness, effective management of change, closure of non-conformities and sustained compliance with corporate standards.
Customer Service
- Ensure production output meets agreed quantity, quality, blend, packaging and dispatch requirements.
- Coordinate with Planning, Quality, Maintenance, Packing, Stores, Purchase to resolve operational constraints quickly.
- Support investigation of internal and customer complaints, establish root causes and close corrective and preventive actions within timelines.
- Maintain product integrity and traceability from raw material and intermediate stages through finished goods handover.
Internal Processes
- Implement SOPs, production standards, control plans and daily management routines across assigned operations.
- Review operational KPIs covering safety, quality, output, yield, downtime, manpower, power, fuel, water and cost; initiate recovery actions for deviations.
- Coordinate production and maintenance windows, shutdown activities, trials and changeovers without compromising safety or customer commitments.
- Ensure audit readiness, timely closure of non-conformities and effective implementation of CAPA, MOC and risk-mitigation actions.
Innovation and Learning
- Drive statistical process control, data-based problem solving and sustained improvement of critical process parameters.
- Identify and implement automation, digitalization and visual-management opportunities that improve control, reporting and decision-making.
- Lead or support process trials, equipment upgrades, validation, commissioning and knowledge transfer across production teams.
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