Chief Executive Officer - Ports & Terminals - Chennai
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The job in short
Chief executive officer for ports and terminals.
Details
- Found
- 19 d ago · posted 2026-10-05
- Location as listed
- Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
- Role
- Executive / Director
- Source
- The company’s own careers site
Full description
Key responsibilities
Business & P&L Ownership –
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Own end-to-end financial and operating performance of the business unit, ensuring delivery of revenue, margin, cost, and profitability targets
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Translate enterprise priorities into clear operating plans, performance rhythms, and measurable outcomes
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Drive performance visibility through disciplined review mechanisms, early risk identification, and corrective actions
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Balance growth, cost, and service trade-offs to ensure sustainable business performance
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Maintain strong financial discipline and value-focused decision making aligned with long-term business objectives
Product, Service & Customer Performance –
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Develop a strong understanding of product, service, and operational capabilities to ensure market relevance and competitiveness
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Ensure reliable, consistent, and high-quality service delivery across customer touchpoints
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Partner closely with Sales to enable conversion, solution feasibility, and customer commitments, without direct ownership of sales
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Provide market, customer, and operational insights to strengthen positioning and win probability
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Ensure execution excellence delivers on customer promises, safeguarding credibility and retention
Execution & Operational Effectiveness –
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Drive day-to-day operational performance, ensuring alignment to strategic priorities and customer commitments
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Remove structural and cross functional barriers to improve speed, efficiency, and service reliability
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Balance cost, service, quality, and risk considerations in complex operating environments
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Establish strong execution cadence, accountability mechanisms, and performance discipline
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Reinforce a results orientation over activity-based management, ensuring consistent delivery outcomes
Matrix Collaboration & Commercial Alignment –
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Work effectively within a matrix structure, aligning closely with Sales, Finance, HR, and enabling functions
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Enable commercial success through strong partnership with Sales, ensuring delivery capability matches customer commitments
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Align diverse stakeholders around shared priorities, sequencing decisions, and accountability
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Influence without authority to resolve trade-offs between commercial ambition and operational feasibility
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Reinforce enterprise-first mindset, ensuring BU success contributes to broader organizational value
Leadership, Culture & Capability Building –
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Build and sustain a high accountability, high-performance culture anchored in ownership and execution excellence
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Develop strong bench strength and functional capability within the business unit
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Lead and coach teams to operate with clarity, discipline, and agility in execution
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Drive engagement and alignment across cross-functional teams despite structural boundaries
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Embed a culture of continuous improvement, ownership, and delivery excellence
QUALIFICATIONS & COMPETENCIES
Skills and Competencies
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20+ years of experience
Behavioral Competencies :
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Drives results
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Ensures accountability
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Balances stakeholders
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Strategic Mindset
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Decision quality
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Collaborates
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Customer focus
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Builds effective teams
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Courage
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Manages ambiguity
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Cultivate Innovation
Stakeholder
Internal: Board of Directors, Regional Leadership Team, BU Leadership team, Employees Unions etc.,
External: Govt Authorities, CHPA, Customs etc.,
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Educational Qualification (min)
Masters degree
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Preferred Certifications if any
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Range/ Min no of years - of overall Experience required
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Min no of years of Industry specific experience required, if any & the industry type
20 + years of experience
20 years
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