Head Corporate Quality

Role: Corporate / Central Quality

Location: Ahmedabad
Industry: Cement Manufacturing / Building Materials

Purpose of the role:

This position is responsible for defining, driving, standardizing, and monitoring quality systems, processes, and performance across all manufacturing units for Cement, RMX, and other building materials businesses.

The role ensures product quality consistency, regulatory compliance, customer satisfaction, technical excellence, process improvement, and capability development across plants and business units.

Role & responsibilities:

• Develop and implement organization-wide quality strategy, standards, systems, and policies across Cement, RMX, and allied building materials businesses.
• Drive quality assurance and quality control systems across all plants, grinding units, RMX plants, and other manufacturing locations.
• Ensure compliance with BIS standards, statutory norms, ISO systems, customer specifications, and internal quality benchmarks.
• Monitor product quality performance across all units through periodic reviews, audits, benchmarking, and analytics.
• Guide plants on process optimization, quality stabilization, clinker and cement performance improvement, and reduction in quality-related complaints.
• Lead central quality initiatives related to product development, cost optimization, alternate raw materials, blended cement enhancement, and sustainability-linked quality improvements.
• Establish standard laboratory practices, calibration systems, testing methodologies, and quality protocols across locations.
• Drive customer-centric quality improvement initiatives and support technical services teams in addressing customer complaints and market feedback.
• Lead inter-plant benchmarking and implementation of best practices to improve consistency and operational excellence.
• Coordinate with Manufacturing, Process, Sales, Marketing, Procurement, Projects, R&D, and Technical Services teams for quality enhancement initiatives.
• Drive capability building and technical competency development of quality teams across businesses.
• Lead quality audits, management reviews, and external agency interactions related to quality systems and certifications.

Preferred candidate profile

• 13+ Years of Experience into corporate quality.
• Preferred from Building Material/ Chemical industry.
• Qualification - B.S c/ M. Sc or relevant