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Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories (DRL) Ltd. is a leading multinational pharmaceutical company based across global locations. Each of our 24,000 plus employees comes to work every day for one collective purpose: to accelerate access to affordable and innovative medicines because Good Health Can’t Wait.

We started in 1984 with a modest investment, 20 employees and a bold vision. Today, we have research and development centres, manufacturing facilities or a commercial presence in 66 countries. 

For nearly four decades, we have stood for access, affordability and innovation based on the bedrock of deep science, progressive people practices and robust corporate governance. As the pharmaceutical industry evolves and undergoes disruption, we see an opportunity – to strengthen our core further (the next steps) and to build the future (the new bets).

‘The Next and the New’ is how we aim to continue to be the partner of choice – purpose-driven, future-ready and sustainable.  Our aim is to reach over 1.5 Bn+ patients across the world by 2030 by growing our core businesses and building for the future with sustainability at the core of our purpose and strategy. Sustainability for us means operating in a manner that respects people, planet and purpose – helping us conserve precious resources, serve our patients, create value for stakeholders, give back to society, fulfil our potential and maintain our integrity and transparency.

Dr Reddy’s maintains a work environment, free from discrimination and is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to employ & nurture all qualified diverse workforce without regard to race, colour religion, nationality, sex, age, disability status, genetics, sexual orientation, gender expression, citizenship or any other characteristic or classification protected by applicable law(s) of the country we operate in. We treasure every talent and recognize merit and diversity in our organization.

As “Team member GMO planning” you will build & maintain strong relationships with the front-end markets & manufacturing plants.  

This role provides a dual opportunity to learn about the business/market’s developments along with the understanding of the global manufacturing operations.

Roles and Responsibilities 

• Active business partnering  

• Connect with the Markets to understand the business (sales/TpT) and linking back to plant performance.  

• Publish Monthly Plant P&L along with the Insights on Plant Profitability for assigned Vertical (CTO/FTO)  

• Analyse Plants financial KPI like Opex, COPE, Savings and provide the insights 

• Present financial summaries and business insights to senior management 

• Recommend actions by analysing and interpreting the financial data 

• Drive the key initiatives along with Plants finance heads to achieve the committed targets (OE/TVC savings)  

• Support the Annual Budgeting and forecasting Process 

• Release AR's on Operating Expenditure to auditors 

• Analytical support for various review meetings (Gross Margin analysis and Monthly Review Meetings with business teams) 

• Adhoc analysis depending on business requirement. 

• Drive profit maximization opportunities.  

• Drive Analytical projects (for e.g., reduction of NRV hits - analyse negative/low gross margin products and compare with future visibility of the cogs) 

• Drive Profit/Cost improvement plans 

• Drive standardization and simplification of the process 

• Support in the automation/Digitalization journey 

• Identify the areas where automation is possible and develop dashboards to enable faster decision making. 

CA with 3-6 Years of experience