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Chief Executive Officer - Ports & Terminals - Chennai

Ehpv.em2.WeOneCareers · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Full-time Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India 13h ago
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Job Description

Key responsibilities 

Business & P&L Ownership – 

 

  • Own end-to-end financial and operating performance of the business unit, ensuring delivery of revenue, margin, cost, and profitability targets 

  • Translate enterprise priorities into clear operating plans, performance rhythms, and measurable outcomes 

  • Drive performance visibility through disciplined review mechanisms, early risk identification, and corrective actions 

  • Balance growth, cost, and service trade-offs to ensure sustainable business performance

  • Maintain strong financial discipline and value-focused decision making aligned with long-term business objectives

 

Product, Service & Customer Performance – 

 

  • Develop a strong understanding of product, service, and operational capabilities to ensure market relevance and competitiveness 

  • Ensure reliable, consistent, and high-quality service delivery across customer touchpoints 

  • Partner closely with Sales to enable conversion, solution feasibility, and customer commitments, without direct ownership of sales 

  • Provide market, customer, and operational insights to strengthen positioning and win probability 

  • Ensure execution excellence delivers on customer promises, safeguarding credibility and retention

 

Execution & Operational Effectiveness – 

 

  • Drive day-to-day operational performance, ensuring alignment to strategic priorities and customer commitments 

  • Remove structural and cross functional barriers to improve speed, efficiency, and service reliability 

  • Balance cost, service, quality, and risk considerations in complex operating environments

  • Establish strong execution cadence, accountability mechanisms, and performance discipline 

  • Reinforce a results orientation over activity-based management, ensuring consistent delivery outcomes

 

Matrix Collaboration & Commercial Alignment – 

 

  • Work effectively within a matrix structure, aligning closely with Sales, Finance, HR, and enabling functions 

  • Enable commercial success through strong partnership with Sales, ensuring delivery capability matches customer commitments 

  • Align diverse stakeholders around shared priorities, sequencing decisions, and accountability 

  • Influence without authority to resolve trade-offs between commercial ambition and operational feasibility 

  • Reinforce enterprise-first mindset, ensuring BU success contributes to broader organizational value

 

 

Leadership, Culture & Capability Building – 

 

  • Build and sustain a high accountability, high-performance culture anchored in ownership and execution excellence 

  • Develop strong bench strength and functional capability within the business unit 

  • Lead and coach teams to operate with clarity, discipline, and agility in execution  

  • Drive engagement and alignment across cross-functional teams despite structural boundaries 

  • Embed a culture of continuous improvement, ownership, and delivery excellence

QUALIFICATIONS & COMPETENCIES 

Skills and Competencies

  • 20+ years of experience 

     

Behavioral Competencies :

  • Drives results 

  • Ensures accountability 

  • Balances stakeholders 

  • Strategic Mindset 

  • Decision quality 

  • Collaborates  

  • Customer focus 

  • Builds effective teams 

  • Courage  

  • Manages ambiguity 

  • Cultivate Innovation

Stakeholder 

Internal: Board of Directors, Regional Leadership Team, BU Leadership team, Employees Unions etc.,

External: Govt Authorities, CHPA, Customs etc.,

  • Educational Qualification (min)

Masters degree 

  • Preferred Certifications if any

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  • Range/ Min no of years - of overall Experience required 

     

  • Min no of years of Industry specific experience required, if any & the industry type

20 + years of experience

 

 

20 years

 

 

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13h ago

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Nov 4, 2026

Job type

Full-time

Experience

executive

Region

ChennaiTamil NaduIndia
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