Job Description

Designation

General Manager - Warehouse Excellence

Function

Product Supply Organization Location

Mumbai Reporting To

Senior Vice President - Planning and Logistics

Job Description

Tata Consumer Products Ltd.

About the Job: General Manager - Warehouse Excellence

Function: Delivery

Location: Mumbai

Reporting To: SVP-Planning & Logistics

At Tata Consumer Products Ltd, we stand #Forbetter – Planet, Sourcing, Nutrition, Communities. And #ForBetter Opportunities …. Here’s an exciting one!

How does this Job align to our Strategy?

At the core of Tata Consumer Products' business approach lie six strategic pillars that serve as the foundation for its growth and success: Strengthen core & accelerate our growth business, Build on new opportunities, Drive execution excellence everyday, Create future ready organization, Drive Digital and Innovation and Embed Sustainability.

This job opportunity closely aligns with one of these key strategic pillars, which is Strengthening & Accelerating our Core Business. The role involves Demand Planning for certain product categories in TCPL India business. The job aims to bring business value by driving warehouse and logistics transformation through network optimization, digital enablement, operational excellence, and capability building to create a future-ready, customer-centric, and cost-efficient supply chain network.

Where do you come in as?

Executive Director & COO

MD & CEO

SVP – Planning & Logistics

General Manager - Warehouse Excellence

This job is at N-3 or 4 level (N corresponds to CEO’s level)

Top dimensions:

Geography: India

Direct reports: 0

Complexity of the role (Optional): Medium

Will this job require travel (Y/N): Yes

Matrix Reports: NA

Type of Role: Individual Contributor

Primary Stakeholders (Optional):

What are the Key Deliverables in this role?

Financial Outcomes

• Drive warehouse and logistics network optimization to improve cost-to-serve and overall supply chain efficiency.
• Deliver secondary freight savings through route optimization, load consolidation, freight negotiation, and transport productivity initiatives.
• Improve warehouse productivity, storage utilization, inventory handling efficiency, and asset utilization across the network.
• Identify and implement cost optimization opportunities across warehousing, transportation, and CFA operations.
• Support strategic network design decisions balancing service levels, inventory positioning, and logistics costs.

Customer Service

• Improve OTIF, fill rates, and service reliability through optimized warehouse and distribution operations.
• Design channel-specific fulfillment and warehousing solutions for GT, MT, E-commerce, Quick Commerce, Food Service, and Exports.
• Lead seamless CFA transitions, warehouse changeovers, and network redesign initiatives with minimal business disruption.
• Establish robust CFA and logistics partner performance management processes to improve service outcomes.
• Enhance end-to-end visibility and responsiveness across warehouse and distribution operations.

Internal Processes

• Lead implementation and adoption of WMS, TMS, barcoding, and warehouse digitization initiatives across the logistics network.
• Standardize warehouse operating procedures, inventory controls, productivity measures, and governance mechanisms.
• Drive warehouse layout optimization, flow-path improvement, material handling efficiency, and warehouse engineering initiatives.
• Lead cross-functional transformation projects covering network redesign, warehouse modernization, and logistics excellence.
• Build data-driven performance management routines and operational dashboards for warehouse and logistics operations

Innovation and Learning

• Benchmark warehouse and logistics practices against leading FMCG and global supply chain organizations to identify improvement opportunities.
• Evaluate and deploy automation, digital solutions, advanced analytics, and emerging warehousing technologies.
• Develop organizational capability in warehouse engineering, network design, transportation excellence, and logistics analytics.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement through lean methodologies, structured problem-solving, and operational excellence initiatives.
• Build advanced analytics and scenario-planning capabilities to support network optimization and future supply chain transformation.

What are the Critical success factors for the Role?

• Proven ability to lead large-scale warehouse, logistics, and network transformation initiatives delivering measurable cost, service, and productivity improvements.
• Strong expertise in supply chain digitization and systems implementation, including WMS, TMS, barcoding, warehouse automation, and analytics-driven decision making.
• Ability to drive network optimization and operational excellence, including warehouse design, flow-path optimization, transportation efficiency, and CFA network rationalization.
• Strong cross-functional stakeholder management and project execution capability to influence Planning, Manufacturing, Procurement, Sales, Customer Service, Finance, CFA partners, and external service providers.
• Data-driven approach to problem solving and business case development, with a strong focus on cost-to-serve, service levels, productivity, and ROI realization.

What are the Desirable success factors for the Role?

• Experience in leading FMCG warehousing modernization programs, including greenfield/brownfield warehouse projects and warehouse engineering initiatives.
• Exposure to advanced supply chain technologies and automation solutions such as ASRS, robotics, IoT-enabled operations, digital control towers, and AI-driven logistics planning.
• Strong commercial acumen with experience in freight procurement, contract negotiations, and logistics partner development.
• Capability to build internal Centers of Excellence and develop organizational capability, creating sustainable expertise in warehouse excellence and logistics transformation.
• MBA/ B. Tech. with relevant and depth of experience in Warehouse, Logistics & Transportation management & transformation

TCPL Growth Mindset and Behaviors

We are obsessed about keeping Consumers & Customers first in our hearts – that’s why we are here !

We are trailblazers in executing with Excellence … Together as One Team !

We take Ownership of our business …delivering value for our Stakeholders .. no Compromises !

We are Open to Continuously improving … Continuously innovating … For Better !

We live & breathe our Tata Code of Conduct

About Us: At Tata Consumer, we stand ‘For Better.’

Tata Consumer Products is a focused consumer products company uniting the principal food and beverage interests of the Tata Group under one umbrella. Our brands embody our purpose of ‘For Better ‘through the value they deliver to consumers with a focus on innovation, health and wellness, convenience and premiumisation. The Company’s portfolio of products includes tea, coffee, water, RTD, salt, pulses, spices, ready-to-cook and ready-to-eat offerings, breakfast cereals, snacks, mini meals, herbal supplements and vending business. Few of our key brands include Tata Tea, Tetley, Eight O’Clock Coffee, Tata Coffee Grand, Himalayan Natural Mineral Water, Tata Copper+ and Tata Gluco+, Tata Salt, Tata Sampann, Tata Soulfull, Organic India and Chings. In India, Tata Consumer Products has a reach of over 200 million households, giving it an unparalleled ability to leverage the Tata brand in consumer products.

The Company has a consolidated annual turnover of ~Rs. 20,290 Crs with operations in India and International markets. For more information please visit www.tataconsumer.com