Purpose of the Role
Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles has rapidly strengthened its market position in India and has set ambitious growth aspirations for 2030: >20% share of the domestic PV market | 1.2M+ annual sales by FY30, ~2X FY26 | Strong double-digit EBITDA margins | Leadership in EVs, supported by new nameplates and an expanded market footprint
To drive a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and business excellence across TMPV by partnering with leadership teams to identify enterprise-wide improvement opportunities, strengthen organizational capabilities, institutionalize excellence frameworks, and deliver measurable business outcomes through transformation, benchmarking, digital enablement, and cross-functional collaboration
Job Responsibility
- Partner with business and functional leaders to identify, diagnose and prioritize enterprise-level improvement opportunities and jointly drive interventions delivering measurable business outcomes.
- Build a culture of continuous improvement and excellence by embedding improvement mindsets, ownership, and performance-driven behaviors across the organization
- Benchmark leading practices across industries and identify innovative approaches that can be adapted and deployed within the organization
- Strengthening enterprise operating models through improved alignment of processes, people, technology, governance and decision-making frameworks
- Institutionalize innovation and structured improvement methodologies through frameworks, governance mechanisms and deployment models.
- Leverage technology, analytics, digital capabilities and AI to transform existing ways of working and build scalable improvement engines
- Drive cross-functional and ecosystem-wide collaboration to resolve systemic business issues and unlock enterprise-level opportunities.
- Build organizational capability by developing improvement champions, strengthening problem-solving capabilities and scaling successful practices across the enterprise.
- Lead enterprise Business Excellence assessments, TBEM deployment, application development, maturity evaluations and governance mechanisms to drive continuous improvement and sustain excellence across the organization
- Monitor transformation effectiveness and ensure realization of targeted business benefits through structured governance and performance tracking mechanisms.
Stakeholder Profiles & Nature of Interactions
Internal
- Executive Leadership Team
- Business Unit Heads
- Functional Heads
- Corporate Strategy
- Manufacturing
- Product Development
- Quality
- Supply Chain
- HR
- Finance
- Digital & IT Teams
External
- Industry Benchmarking Organizations
- Consultants
- Academic Institutions
- Technology Partners
- Business Ecosystem Partners
Tata Business Excellence Group (TBExG) / External Assessment Forums
Desired Candidate Profile
10–15 years of experience in Business Excellence, Transformation, Strategy, Operations Excellence, Consulting, Continuous Improvement or related domains.
Additional preferred experience:
- Expert-level knowledge and hands-on deployment experience of TBEM / Business Excellence frameworks.
- Experience as an External Assessor at Tata Group-level TBEM assessments.
- Proven experience in excellence application writing, assessment preparation, and organizational maturity evaluations.
Experience in driving enterprise-wide transformation and capability-building initiatives.
Skills & Competencies
Major Skills
- Business Excellence & Organizational Transformation
- TBEM / Excellence Framework Deployment
- Process Excellence & Continuous Improvement
- Business Process Re-engineering (BPR)
- Strategy Deployment & Execution
- Lean Six Sigma & Problem Solving
- Performance Management & KPI Design
- Benchmarking & Best Practice Adoption
- Change Management
- Data Analytics & Business Insights
- Project / Program Management
- Digital & AI-led Transformation
Core Competencies
- Strategic Thinking
- Systems Thinking
- Analytical Problem Solving
- Stakeholder Management
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- Influencing & Facilitation
- Change Leadership
- Decision Making
- Innovation Mindset
- Results Orientation
- Customer Centricity
- Ownership & Accountability
Critical Competencies (Must-Have)
- Enterprise-wide Transformation Leadership
- TBEM Assessment & Application Capability
- Process Improvement & Operational Excellence
- Organizational Diagnosis & Improvement Planning
- Capability Building & Coaching
- Governance and Benefits Tracking
Tata Motors is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to a fair and transparent hiring process. All recruitment decisions are based strictly on Merit, Role alignment, and Business requirements. It does not solicit or accept any form of payment or gratuity from candidates at any stage of the recruitment process. Any such request received should be considered fraudulent and reported immediately.
About Tata Motors:
Part of the USD 180 billion Tata group, Tata Motors Limited (BSE: 500570; NSE: TATAMOTORS), a USD 52 billion organization, is a leading global automobile manufacturer of cars, utility vehicles, pick-ups, trucks, and buses, offering an extensive range of integrated, smart, and e-mobility solutions. With ‘Connecting Aspirations’ at the core of its brand promise, Tata Motors is India’s market leader in commercial vehicles and ranks among the top three in the passenger vehicles market.
Tata Motors strives to bring new products that captivate the imagination of GenNext customers, fuelled by state-of-the-art design and R&D centres located in India, the UK, the US, Italy, and South Korea. By focusing on engineering and tech- enabled automotive solutions catering to the future of mobility, the company’s innovation efforts are focused on developing pioneering technologies that are both sustainable and suited to the evolving market and customer aspirations. The company is pioneering India's Electric Vehicle (EV) transition and driving the shift towards sustainable mobility solutions by developing a tailored product strategy, leveraging the synergy between Group companies and playing an active role in liaising with the Government of India in developing the policy framework.
With operations in India, UK, South Korea, Thailand and Indonesia, Tata Motors markets its vehicles in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, Southeast Asia, and the SAARC countries. As of March 31, 2025, Tata Motors’ operations include 93 consolidated subsidiaries, two joint operations, four joint ventures, and numerous equity-accounted associates, including their subsidiaries, over which the company exercises significant influence.