Plant Manager

Job Title

Plant Manager

Job Description

Job title: Plant Manager / Senior Director - Manufacturing

Based in: Pune, India

Reports to: Head of Integrated Supply Chain, Precision Diagnosis

Summary:

Philips is a global health technology company focused on improving people’s health and well-being through meaningful innovation. For more than 130 years, Philips has combined advanced technology, clinical expertise, and deep consumer insight to support better care for more people.

Headquartered in the Netherlands and operating in more than 100 countries, Philips focuses on key areas including diagnostic imaging, image-guided therapy, patient monitoring, health informatics, consumer health, and personal care.

In India, it has a strong healthcare manufacturing and innovation presence in Pune through its Healthcare Innovation Center and Chakan operations. The Chakan site is an important part of Philips’ manufacturing footprint, supporting advanced healthcare technology products and systems for domestic and global markets. The site’s capabilities across manufacturing, servicing, repair, and product development make it central to quality, operational excellence, and scalable healthcare delivery.

The Plant Manager leads the Pune manufacturing site, overseeing complex processes, assembly lines, safety, quality, cost, and operational performance. This role ensures reliable and predictable manufacturing outcomes, drives Operational Excellence, manages budgets and workforce utilization, and builds strong talent pipelines while maintaining full compliance with EHS, regulatory, and company standards.

Your role:

• Lead and coordinate large manufacturing teams across diverse processes, assembly lines, and plant functions.

• Champion a strong safety culture and ensure compliance with applicable EHS standards, regulations, and company policies.

• Oversee risk assessments and mitigation plans to reduce safety, quality, and operational risks.

• Drive Operational Excellence initiatives that improve productivity, quality, efficiency, and cost performance.

• Own annual operating plans, site financial planning, and multi-year manufacturing and investment plans.

• Manage expenditures within approved budgets and lead business continuity planning for the site.

• Ensure quality and regulatory compliance while continuously improving manufacturing processes.

• Optimize equipment, workforce, and capacity utilization to meet changing demand efficiently.

• Apply Lean, Six Sigma, and other improvement tools to solve complex operational challenges.

• Lead succession planning, hiring, performance management, compensation planning, and career development for site teams.

You're the right fit if you have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial, Manufacturing, Production Engineering, or a related field with 15+ years of experience; or Master’s degree with 13+ years of experience.

• Proven experience leading large-scale manufacturing operations, production systems, and cross-functional plant teams in a highly regulated medical device / med tech environment.

• Strong track record of delivering safety, quality, delivery, cost, productivity, profitability, and customer commitments.

• Experience owning annual operating plans, budgets, forecasts, capital investments, cost optimization, and working capital priorities.

• Demonstrated success driving Lean, Six Sigma, TPM, Kaizen, digital manufacturing, and continuous improvement programs.

• Strong knowledge of EHS, quality, regulatory, and compliance standards, with experience leading risk mitigation and business continuity planning.

• Experience across supply chain, procurement, inventory, capacity planning, transfers, NPI, and plant expansion or transformation programs.

• Strong people leadership experience, with the ability to build, develop, engage, and retain high-performing teams while leading transformational and organizational change.

How we work together
We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.

About Philips
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If you’re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our culture of impact with care.