Job Description

Roquette is a family-owned global leader in plant-based ingredients and a leading provider of pharmaceutical excipients.Want to help us make a difference?
Using plant-based resources, we collaborate with our customers and partners to imagine and offer ingredients to better feed people and treat patients.
Each of our ingredients responds to unique and essential needs, and they enable healthier lifestyles.To meet our challenges, we are looking for a Head of Production within the Manufacturing team! This position will be located in Gokak.Scope: LocalOur TeamManufacturing is the core function of the company, with the ambition to innovate in our business and operating models through sustainable manufacturing practices.
If you want to be a part of a global and fast transforming team, work in a dynamic environment, do join us!Their mission?
Our strategic objectives are delivering superior customer experience, generating new sources of revenues and new business models, enhancing end-to-end operations productivity, supporting management performance and creating a great place to work for our employees.Your experience and talents will make the difference to:

• Ensure that Environmental, Health and Safety standards and procedures are adhered.
• Production planning and control - Develop and manage master production schedule and operations budgets for products to directly support and ensure that the product is delivered to agreed cost, quality and timelines.
• Input and hold responsibility for manufacturing budgets.
• Implement a customer focused operational culture.
• Responsible for productivity improvement, capacity optimization and Coordinate team activities to optimize cost performance of the plant through capital investment programs, optimizing operating working capital usage and minimizing waste through the development of a continuous improvement culture encompassing excellence principles and clear strategic development. Manage the accurate and on-time introduction of new products - coordinating with and supporting the new product development team to implement new and revised designs and developing effective processes to ensure manufacturability of product while maintaining quality, safety, environmental standards and achieving cost targets.
• Support project management to cross functional activity required for project execution.
• Provide leadership to departments as coach, mentor, develop direct reports and manage a high performing team that delivers continuous improvement, added value and cost reductions. Ensure strong communication between teams under leadership to facilitate exchange of information and in order to implement change and improvements
• Proactively work with product line management, engineering, service and other departments to incorporate best practices into the manufacturing environment.
• Report on manufacturing activities on a regular basis to the Senior Management team, ensuring accurate and timely reporting of the relevant Key Performance Indicators.
• Ensures that others are trained as back-ups on (processes) within the area/department.

Leadership Competencies:

• Team Leadership - empowers and strengthens the team, delegating authority with the intent of enabling the team to work effectively without direct management. Drive for Quality and excellence
• Discipline and compliance
• Make decisions with speed and determination
• Strategic Orientation - has greater understanding of the organizations strategic context and the ability to align with and contribute to it.

What we will love about you:

• Exposure in production of food / chemical process
• Knowledge of sustainable manufacturing practices
• Experience in bulk production
• Ability to work with teams across geographical locations with various functional & technical expertise.
• Proactive, self-starter and able to take initiative

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• Relevant Graduate / Post-Graduate degree (Chemical engineering preferred)
• At least 15+ years of experience

If you identify yourself in this position, please apply by uploading your resume and let's start the journey together !Roquette is proud to be a global company where you can find personal and professional growth through multiple diverse experiences.Roquette believes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion must be woven into everything we do, from the products we make, through the relationships we build with our partners, and most importantly within the teams we create and how we interact together.As we continue to grow, Roquette understands that to be successful we must always be inclusive in our approach, by creating a workforce that represents the world we live in, and the communities and customers we serve.To find out more about our products, values and sustainable development ambitions visit us at and at

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