Kalyan Bhowal

Strategic Planner & Implementer offering 28+ years of rich experience with skills in managing a diverse range of Plant/Production Operations & Product Development activities within global and multicultural environment. Competent in managing end-to-end manufacturing operations with key focus on bottom line profitability and customer satisfaction by ensuring optimal utilization of resources.

Global

Trainer LG Manufacturing System (IE activities and Lean Manufacturing) familiar with Lean Manufacturing initiatives to reduce production leads time & improve productivity. Comprehensive understanding about various process improvement activities as per 5S, 6 Sigma and LG Innovation system. Experienced in working with global cross functional team and align on common objectives and joint targets for the functions and resources, including general oversight for activities, projects, and troubleshooting issues when they arise.

Visionary & strategist with rich experience in swiftly ramping up projects with competent cross-functional skills and ensuring on-time deliverables within preset cost parameters while adhering to respective procedures and standards/norms. Proven track record of streamlining/overcoming business challenges, participating in high level operational initiatives while delivering results in growth, revenue & operational performance. Possess a clear understanding of industry, technology trends with skills in instituting quality control techniques to achieve product excellence at the lowest overall costs; knowledge about ISO:9001, ISO:13485, CE marking and India MDR 2017 guidelines.

Strong people leader & team player; excellent motivational skills to sustain forward growth momentum while motivating peak individual performance from team members.

Director India Manufacturing Operation - Translumina Therapeutic - Dehradun

(2021-07)

Overall responsibility of manufacturing, quality, regulatory compliance, planning, procurement and logistics of 3 plants reporting to Group CEO. Head the planning and execution of setting up new manufacturing facility in Dehradun as a part of the backward integration and capacity expansion plan of the Company.

• Liaise with all external bodies, such as authorities, employer and employee's organizations, industry associations, regional and local institutions, and other public stakeholders
• Benchmark the current manufacturing processes of the company with industry best practices and reform them to achieve optimal outcomes
• Enhancing overall quality systems and compliance culture of the company
• Guide team for providing quality improvement, and risk reduction via supplier engagement
• Drive cost optimization measures to reach industry best-in-class benchmarks
• Working closely with the sales and marketing team, lead the entire SNOP – procurement, production planning, production and delivery to ensure timely delivery with efficient operations and inventory management
• Build a manufacturing and operations organization, including the processes, and ways of working focused on KPIs based on yield, costing, efficiency and quality
• Collaborate with the other Leadership team members including the Sales and Marketing head and the CFO in achieving customer satisfaction, topline and bottom-line goals
• As a key member of the Leadership Team, contribute into the development of the overall Global Strategy of the Company
• In partnership with the Sale, Marketing and Finance Heads, contribute into the development of the overall business plan to execute the strategy
• Lead and motivate the manufacturing, quality, planning and procurement teams in delivering KPIs
• In collaboration with HR, build a strong manufacturing and operations organization with robust people processes to drive multifold growth, coupled with strong talent and performance management
• Guide the learning and development team on the development needs of the manufacturing and operations team and be the long-term sponsor for the same

Head Production & Head Plant QA - Becton and Dickinson India Ltd. - Bawal, Haryana

(2012-06 - 2021-06)

Served as Functional Head (Production) from Jun'12-Dec'17 and Head Plant QA and Regulatory from Jan'18-Jun'21.

• Devising & implementing quality strategies/plans in order to achieve the corporate goals and ensuring compliance to BD WW norms, ISO & CE
• Executing the techniques in bringing efficiency in operations for improving quality standards and achieving maximum cost savings
• Conducting inspections at various stages to ensure safety & quality specifications are met without deviation
• Implementing systems for meeting different quality standards for maintaining the relevant documents
• Develop and monitor the operating and capital budgets, and participate in the Annual Planning and periodic forecasting process
• Leading all activities of production operations such as production scheduling, manpower planning, customer inspection; controlling machine maintenance activities to meet the monthly production targets
• Organizing, planning and coordinating the entire product development including requirement analysis, finalizing specifications and new concept development
• Gathering requirements, suggesting new ideas and preparing project proposals/technical specifications for smooth execution of projects within the time and cost parameters
• Planning detailed engineering activities and finalizing requirements/specifications in consultation with Engineering & Production Departments
• Resolving customer complaints and setting-out quality standards for various operational areas and ensuring a high-quality customer experience while adhering to SLAs
• Devising & implementing production strategies/plans in order to achieve the organizational production goals
• Implementing cost saving techniques/measures and modifications for reducing expenditures and increasing operational profits
• Developing project baselines; monitoring & controlling with respect to cost, resource deployment, time overruns and quality compliance for ensuring satisfactory execution of the same
• Leads the Quality Operations staff in the development and deployment of key business and Quality strategies, continuous improvements and customer focus activities
• Working closely with manufacturing site Q&R leaders and other key partners to ensure all BD site is fully align with local and international standards as part of QMS processes and other relevant regulatory/global standards

Manager (Production) - LG Electronics India Ltd. - Greater Noida

(2003-06 - 2012-06)

Engineer - Manufacturing & Process Technology - Whirlpool of India Ltd. - Pune

(2000-08 - 2003-05)

Engineer Production - Amtrex-HITACHI Appliances Ltd. - Ahmedabad

(1997-08 - 2000-07)

B.Tech. - Mechanical - North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology, North Eastern Hill Central University (1997)