A Senior Management leader close to * decades of successful history in Plant Operations Factory Management Supply Chain leadership Procurement Manufacturing Start ups P&L responsibility Global Relocations M&A

+91-963******* adkbwu@r.postjobfree.com www.linkedin.com/in/ k.senthilkumar1974 CAREER TIMELINE

Aug 2011 – Dec2019 – Director Operations & SC - Danfoss Drives,Chennai (Danish Group, Merged with Vacon) Apr 1994 – Apr 1997 - Plant Engineer - TechnostralEltex India Private Limited, Coimbatore May 1997 – Jan 2002 - Engineer – Plant Operations - Praveen Engineering Private Limited, Coimbatore May 1992 – Mar 1994 - Electrical supervisor - RavSun Die Castings, Coimbatore Feb 2002 – May 2007 - Asst. Manager – Production - Venture Power Systems India Ltd, Chennai (US MNC) Jun 2007 – Aug 2011 - Manager – Production - MDL Technologies India Pvt Ltd, Vishakhapatnam (US MNC) 199*-**-**-**-** 97-98-99-200*-** **-**-**-**-**-** **-**-**-**-**-** 14 15-16-17-18-201* 2020 ACADEMICS

• MBA (Production Management) from Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai in 2010

• B.E. (Electrical&Electronics Engg) from Govt. College of Technology, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore with 74.34% in 2000 (Part time)

• Diploma (Electrical&Electronics Engg) from Nachimuthu Polytechnic, Pollachi with 79.08% in 1992 K.SENTHILKUMAR

from Jan 2020 – Sr.Operational Consultant with private companies EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Manufacturing: A Senior leader in Plant operations & Supply Chain management, with 28 years experience in diversified manufacturing industries of Electrical, Power Electronics, Mechanical, Project solutions, Contract manufacturing, Lighting and Magnetic components. Last 13 years in Operational Leadership roles and as Director–Operations & Supply Chain in Danfoss Drives, (a global leader in AC Drives market) I plan, direct, coordinate and oversee operation activities from setting Business strategy and framing factory roadmap with MWB’s. Overall control of day to day executions in Planning, Engineering, Procurement, Production, Quality and Testing, Warehouse and Logistics departments to ensure committed customer delivery with High Quality & safety. A Strong negotiator with Internal and external resources, supplier sourcing and development, component localization, price finalization, Project contracts, RC’s for continuous reduction in manufacturing cost, which supports sales to increase WIN rate in highly competitive & dynamic market. Highly focused in enhancing factory infrastructure & processes in to World Class Manufacturing WCM, which creates right confident to customers during their visit. Implemented Industry 4.0, One ERP, Meet Listen Act-MLA systems, Operations Dashboard, Change management, People values etc.

Customer Centric: Worked closely with Sales as Team member, helping to build strong customer relationships by f2f meeting, heading customer’s factory visits, speedy support for site breakdowns. Being member of Sales review meetings, understand the dynamic changes in customer’s mind and market needs, which helps to tune Operations strategies and actions. Maximizing the company’s operating performance, with YoY growth, optimizing margins, create positive impact on the macro financial goals boiling down to areas with potential for improvement with the right inputs from sales and market Global Leadership: As Global operations team member, Responsible for India Factory P&L by budgeting & controlling FE,OP-ex, Cap- ex, includes creation, allocation, monitoring and control, which create right margin and cash flow in the business results. A member of Global leadership forum, for fixing Business objectives and actions for the Year and creating core and clear roadmap for 3 years for the global market growth. A certified Leader, I ensure Motivation & IDP for each team member to support their growth in the organization, which has given better results with own responsibilities. Work closely with HR & IR for smooth flow of work force process and their improvements

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Production & Planning

• Engg to Order Projects

• Quality & Testing

• Manufacturing startups

• Industry 4.0, WCM

• Large Project executions

• Corporate Mergers

• Global Relocations

• Change management

• Presales & Engineering

• Safety in High level focus

• Training & IDP

• Recruitment & IR

• Regulatory Affairs

• Business Strategy setting

• Must Win Battle

• Annual Budget & Allocation

• P&L Responsibility

• Plant Dashboard

• Financial KPI’s

• FE,Op-ex,Cap-ex Control

• Customer relationships

• One ERP & network

implementation

• Global leadership

• Forecast & Demand Planning

• Vendor sourcing & localization

• Inventory control

• Materials Management- Supplier

to Customer

• Project Materials procurement

• Strong negotiations

• Supplier Audits,valuation

• Contract – RC & production OS

• IB & OB Logistics

• WH Management

• Cost Optimization projects

Plant Operations Supply Chain Business Acumen

WORK EXPERIENCE

2011-2019 – Danfoss Industries Pvt ltd, Bangalore & Chennai (Danish Group, Merged with Vacon Drives, Finland)

• Heading India Operations & Supply Chain for setting Business objectives, Delegate, follow up, Review and support the team

• Developing Core and Clear Strategy with MWB’s for India Operations by learning from previous challenges

• Overall control in day to day operations of 3 different manufacturing units to ensure customer delivery with QCDS KPI’s

• P&L responsible for factory, framed Score card Dashboard for India to control Business & Financial PPI’s

• Responsible for Factory contribution, creating annual Budget & allocation, monitoring FE, Op-ex,Cap-ex and Shared service expenses

• Head of Procurement with continuous cost optimization goal to support sales to increase HIT rate. Closely worked with Vendors from Sourcing, Auditing, Validation, Offers/contract negotiation, monitoring execution till deliver into door step

• Lead a large scale Project executions for thermal, steel and cement segments

• Leading Contract management as RC’s, Outsource manufacturing, Project contracts & evaluate supplier with open feedback

• Administering the strategic inventory reduction plans across country to meet budget plan at factory level.

• Leading the implementation QMS/IATF certification for factory & managing audits for continuous improvement

• Enhanced Factory into WCM by Global bench marking practices and demonstrated to customer during visits, which helped to increase confident level on product and process

• Indian member of Global leadership forum, framed corporate objectives, learning, actions for global market growth

• Well versed in working with Matrix organization and headed global projects

• Trainer & motivator, conducted workshops for CFT, customers and vendors for quick solutions

• Handled the below Process/Projects:

o Factory Startups – Built manufacturing set up in Bangalore for Vacon from leasing land, Made WCM setup in Chennai by relocating and received IATF certification within a year o Headed corporate merger for India, relocated factory from Bangalore to Chennai and combined as one Operations foot print o Cost optimization projects and achieved 5% reduction on YoY by Valued Engineering & Strong negotiation approach o ASQ Certified Lean Six Sigma BB and trained GB’s in every year with needed projects in factory and Business level o Global relocation of VFD manufacturing lines from China to India with all legal compliance o QMS,IATF, 15 consultant certifications

o Implemented Global Enclosed Drives (Electrical Panel) business strategy o Individually lead and executed Solar container solution for 10MW project o Headed 15 to 20 MLA(Meet Listen Act) projects internally and with customers o Increasing CLI index with CFT collaboration

2007 to 2011 – MDL Technologies India Pvt ltd, VSEZ (MDL Corp.,USA)

• Lead Green field project - Started working from Factory construction & setting up new 2 different type of production units within 2 yrs

• Received all mandatory compliances from SEZ and received subsidy thro M-SIP

• Headed Planning and Production of HID lighting Ballast and power supply units and ensure delivery Initiated savings measures and attained cost reduction in annual costs (waste management) especially in raw material scrap

• Lead Central supply chain and delivery planning for about 3 years with result of increasing deliverable KPI’s

• Acted as Project manger for R&D and worked closely with department heads from board desk view

• Achieved productivity by adopting industrial & value engineering techniques and conceptualizing and setting up the “U” cell production layout concept

• Recruited Human resources from operator to manager and trained for quick start up as well continuous productivity improvements SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENTS

• Handled 650MINR worth of Green field project for setting up HID lighting magnetic division to deliver to US market

• Worked from Procurement to Commissioning in Electronic color sorting machines with wide learning's

• Signing authority for India and Headed commercial for India business

• Indian Management Team member

• Elected as member of Global Leadership forum among 5000 leaders by board

• Driven Global strategy for Enclosed Drive (Electrical Drives Panel) Business & implemented in 5 global factories

• Global Operations team member & reported to Group vice president

• Black Belt project – Improving customer responsiveness in Sales, Service and Engineering solutions

• Relocation of production lines from Canada to India in 2004

• Acted as Product management for Lighting transformer supplied to US market

• Program manager for GE lighting, Philips and other MNC’s

• Done Energy saving project in Electrical and Pneumatic consumptions for 3 plants and resulted savings of 60K INR per month CERTIFICATION & TRAINING

• Management Program in Leadership - Leading Leaders at Denmark

• Management Program in leadership – Leading Others at Denmark

• American Society for Quality - Lean Six Sigma Black Belt by Business Excellence Solutions, Finland

• American Society for Quality – Lean Six Sigma Green Belt by Business Excellence Solutions, Finland

• Management Program for Kaizen-Kaikaku Bench marking at Kaizen Institute, Portugal

• Crisis Leadership - skill Improvement at Finland

• Certified Internal Auditor for ISO 9001/2008,14001,OHSAS 18001,IATF

• Finance Management for Non-Finance, KPMG

• Logistics Management for cost optimization and quick delivery

• Negotiation skill improvement

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