Manish Nair
Bengaluru
Summary
Technical & Operations Lead with experience in Production, Stakeholder Management, Digital Transformation, Continuous improvement, AI Product Management, Analytics, Strategy, Program & Project Management, and Customer Delight across domains. Brings in rich experience of leading teams / projects to create value for the organization in Plant Operations, Technology, business processes, cost leadership, quality management, continuous improvement, program management and operational excellence. Certified Scrum Master and Six Sigma green belt.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
General Manager – Product
Bert Labs
06.2022 - Current
- Directed operations of product platforms and product management team across manufacturing domains.
- Collaborated with industry leaders across chemical, cement, automobile, pharmaceutical, FMCG, materials, and pulp & paper sectors to drive manufacturing excellence initiatives.
- Developed and executed go-to-market strategies for products.
- Served as domain expert in manufacturing to provide targeted support.
- Identified and developed use cases for AI and IoT solutions in manufacturing, initiating targeted development projects.
- Managed team of process engineers, data scientists, and developers focusing on energy efficiency and process improvements.
- Facilitated customer interactions to uncover improvement opportunities and align product applications with client needs.
Independent Consultant and expert advisor
Self Employed
06.2019 - 05.2022
- Delivered independent consulting and advisory services in manufacturing operations management and entrepreneurship, guiding clients to optimize operations.
- Coached and mentored working professionals, facilitating career development and enhancing job readiness.
- Created opportunities for startups and new businesses through strategic guidance.
- Conducted expert training in manufacturing operations management, equipping teams with skills to boost operational effectiveness.
HOD – Technical Services
UltraTech Cement Ltd. (Aditya Birla Group)
04.2014 - 07.2018
- Led and developed strategies in consultation with senior management for business, risk, and sustainability in operations and supply chain, enhancing customer satisfaction.
- Lead the process for building Vision/Mission and alignment of Objectives for the Unit.
- Lead business/manufacturing excellence drive in the organization through Leadership meets, appreciation and awards, visual management, training and development, facilitate improvement projects and developing & propagating vision/mission for organization.
- Lead Value creation and high impact Projects – identify, assign, review and closure. Lead Multidisciplinary teams – use six sigma methodology.
- Lead Operations and Technical Support functions.
- Led business excellence initiatives through leadership meetings, training programs, and visual management.
- Lead communication with different stakeholders including shop floor operators.
- Conducted data analysis and continuous improvement projects: sourced, analyzed data, developed insights and dashboards, presented findings to top management, and initiated improvement projects.
- Develop SLA & Review performance against SLA.
- Derive metrics to review performance.
- Use of Statistical and Machine Learning methods.
- Conduct Financial Analytics.
- Production Planning and Budgeting includes optimization and control.
- What-if analysis and Process Improvement: Organize, Co-ordinate and conduct improvement studies, Data Mining, recommend schemes to improve productivity and reduce cost in areas of operations and supply chain management.
- Implement talent sourcing strategies to build a diverse candidate pool.
- Develop talent pipelines to ensure a steady flow of qualified candidates.
- Lead premium training and development programs.
- Design and implement training and development programs.
- Ensure plant availability by implementing effective predictive maintenance practices including Maintenance Inspection, Condition monitoring and NDT testing.
- Facilitate implementation of World Class Manufacturing and Quality Management systems. (Kaizen, Six Sigma, TPM, IMS).
- Achieved Silver sustenance and Gold award in excellence for the unit in two consecutive cycles of ABG Chairman’s WCM awards.
- MR of IMS – QMS, EMS & OHSAS. (Certified Lead Auditor for QMS).
- Completed two critical projects in Carbon Black and Alumina manufacturing industries.
- Drive Safety culture and Lead Safety initiatives, Head incident investigation committee.
- Completed two critical projects in Carbon Black and Alumina manufacturing industries.
- Drive Safety culture and Lead Safety initiatives, Head incident investigation committee.
Production Manager
Reliance Industries Limited
11.2000 - 04.2014
- Joined as GET (Graduate Engineer Trainee). Worked in different operating areas including Marine tank farm, Propylene Recovery Unit, Fluid Cat Cracking Unit, Project War room, President’s Office, Coker Operations.
- As Production & Operations Head of World’s largest Coker Plant (170 KBPSD) having eight coke drums with 12 Hr. coking cycle. Continuous batch process; was responsible for managing entire Plant team, day to day operations and troubleshooting
- Ensure excellence standards in Operations including safety.
- Developed and implemented profit improvement and energy conservation schemes to maximize profit margins.
- Carry out Job Cycle Checks for critical SOP.
- Develop Shutdown plans including commissioning and pre-commissioning plans and implementation.
- Completed major turnaround of unit on record schedule while ensuring safety.
- Process Safety Management coordinator.
- Establish Safety systems in line with Du Pont Safety standards.
- Dashboards and Shift Scorecards creation, Business Process Mapping, Alarm Rationalization.
- Drive and Implement Operational excellence standards in shopfloor.
- Developed and assessed employee competencies to enhance skills and performance.
- Development of Training programs and Modules.
- Assisted the Site Operations President by reviewing plant change orders, Capex proposals, and participating in the business transformation process.
- Develop Training modules and programs.
- Carried out variance and data analysis of process operations in Propylene Recovery Unit and Fluid Cat Cracker, reporting findings to senior management.
- Plan and co-ordinate for various pre-commissioning and commissioning activities like steam blowing, rotomole cleaning, pigging.
- Establish monitoring systems for tracking project progress.
- As Shift Engineer in Marine Tank farm, handled crude oil, products receipt and dispatch logistics, cryogenic LPG handling, sea water filtration and effluent treatment units.
- Also determine ocean losses.
Education
Post Graduate Program - Data Science
Praxis Business School
Bangalore03.2019
B.Tech - Chemical Engineering
Dr. B.A.T. University
Lonere, Maharashtra01.1999
HSC/XII -
R.J. College
Mumbai01.1995
SSC/X -
St. Xavier’s High School
Mumbai01.1993
Skills
- Product Management
- Operations Leadership
- Business Process Improvement
- Operations Excellence
- Strategy Development
- Program Management
- Project Management
- Supply chain management
- Performance dashboards
- DMAIC methodology
- Dashboards and Performance metrics development
- Quality Management
- Quality Assurance
- Risk Identification
- Mitigation
- Incident Investigation
- Hazard Identification
- Sustainability
- Environment Management
- Optimization of processes
- Process Planning
- Product Analytics
- Market Research
- User Experience
- Business Intelligence
- Revenue Growth
- Customer Insights
- Process optimization
- Statistics
- Financial Analytics
- Marketing Analytics
- Machine learning
- Deep Learning
- NLP
- Python
- R
- SQL
- Tableau
- Google Analytics
- Troubleshooting
- Google Analytics
Websites
Certification
- Certified Scrum Master, Scrum alliance, 06/01/19
- Manufacturing Management, IIM, Bangalore, 01/01/05
- Lead Auditor, DNV, 01/01/08
- Six Sigma – Green Belt, 01/01/18
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 05/21/77
- Nationality: Indian
- Marital Status: Married
Languages
- Hindi
- Marathi
- Malayalam
- English
- Hindi
- Marathi
- Malayalam
Timeline
General Manager – Product
Bert Labs
06.2022 - Current
Independent Consultant and expert advisor
Self Employed
06.2019 - 05.2022
HOD – Technical Services
UltraTech Cement Ltd. (Aditya Birla Group)
04.2014 - 07.2018
Production Manager
Reliance Industries Limited
11.2000 - 04.2014
Post Graduate Program - Data Science
Praxis Business School
B.Tech - Chemical Engineering
Dr. B.A.T. University
HSC/XII -
R.J. College
SSC/X -
St. Xavier’s High School