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Production Associate\nDepartment: New Product Development\nReporting Manager: Tejaswa Pratap Singh\nEmployment Type: Full-Time | Long-Term\nAbout the Role\nWe are looking for a Production Executive - 3rd Party Manufacturing to take ownership of production execution across our external manufacturing partners.The role will be the key coordination point between 3rd-party manufacturers, R&D, Quality, Procurement, and Supply Chain, ensuring that products are manufactured as per approved formulations, specifications, quality standards, timelines, and cost targets.This is a hands-on execution role for someone who understands manufacturing on the ground, can troubleshoot production challenges quickly, and has the ownership to drive external manufacturing partners toward consistent quality, efficiency, and timely delivery.The role will also play a critical part in NPD scale-up and commercialization, ensuring a smooth transition from R&D trials to successful commercial production.\nYou Should Apply If You Have\nHands-on experience in food, nutraceutical, FMCG, pharmaceutical, or similar manufacturing environments.\nStrong understanding of production processes, manufacturing equipment, troubleshooting, and scale-up.\nExperience working with or managing third-party / contract manufacturing partners.\nStrong ownership and execution mindset with the ability to take accountability from production planning to final dispatch.\nAbility to manage multiple stakeholders across manufacturing, R&D, Quality, Procurement, and Supply Chain.\nStrong problem-solving skills and the ability to identify root causes and drive practical solutions.\nAbility to work in a fast-paced environment where priorities can change quickly.\nCommercial understanding of the relationship between quality, cost, productivity, and delivery timelines.\nYou Should Not Apply If You\nPrefer a purely coordination or follow-up role without hands-on involvement in manufacturing.\nAre uncomfortable taking ownership when production issues arise.\nStruggle to challenge external manufacturing partners when quality, timelines, or specifications are not being met.\nPrefer highly structured environments with limited ambiguity or problem-solving.\nFocus only on production volume without considering quality, cost, yield, wastage, and efficiency.\nAre not comfortable working cross-functionally with multiple stakeholders.\nWhat Would Make You a Strong Fit\nWe would be especially excited about someone who:\nCan independently take a product from NPD trial to successful commercial production.\nHas a strong troubleshooting instinct and focuses on root cause and solutions rather than excuses.\nUses metrics such as yield, rejection, downtime, OEE, wastage, and production cost to improve manufacturer performance.\nContinuously looks for ways to make processes faster, better, cheaper, and more consistent.\nHas the confidence and maturity to challenge manufacturing partners while maintaining strong relationships.\nDemonstrates high agency, urgency, and a bias toward action.\nKey Skills\n3rd-Party / Contract Manufacturing\nProduction Planning & Execution\nFood / Nutraceutical Manufacturing\nManufacturing Process Knowledge\nNPD Scale-up & Commercialization\nProduction Troubleshooting\nRoot Cause Analysis\nVendor / Manufacturer Management\nQuality & Process Compliance\nYield & Wastage Management\nCost & Productivity Improvement\nSOP Development\nCross-functional Stakeholder Management\nData-driven Operations\nFirst 6-Month Success Metrics\nBy the end of the first six months, success in this role would mean:\nOn-time production and dispatch with consistent quality and adherence to approved specifications.\nImproved 3rd-party manufacturer performance across quality, yield, wastage, cost, and timelines.\nReduction in batch failures, rework, deviations, and production losses.\nSuccessful execution of NPD scale-up and commercialization from trial batches to commercial production.\nStronger SOPs, production dashboards, performance tracking, and manufacturer accountability.\nFaster identification and resolution of production and manufacturing issues.\nEstablishment of a scalable and reliable operating rhythm with key manufacturing partners.\nWork Experience: 2-3 years\nWorking days: Monday - Saturday\nLocation: Head Office - Okhla Phase 1 - Delhi\nPerks:\nFriendly atmosphere\nHigh learning & personal growth opportunity\nDiverse work environment\nWhy Nutrabay:\nWe believe in an open, intellectually honest culture where everyone is given the autonomy to contribute\nand do their life’s best work. As a part of the dynamic team at Nutrabay, you will have a chance to learn\nnew things, solve new problems, build your competence and be a part of an innovative\nmarketing-and-tech startup that’s revolutionising the health industry.\nWorking with Nutrabay can be fun, and a place of a unique growth opportunity. Here you will learn how\nto maximise the potential of your available resources. You will get the opportunity to do work that helps\nyou master a variety of transferable skills, or skills that are relevant across roles and departments. You\nwill be feeling appreciated and valued for the work you delivered. We are creating a unique company\nculture that embodies respect and honesty, which will create more loyal employees than a company that\nsimply shells out cash. We trust our employees and their voice and ask for their opinions on important\nbusiness issues.\nAbout Nutrabay:\nNutrabay is the largest health & nutrition store in India. Our vision is to keep growing, have a sustainable\nbusiness model, and continue to be the market leader in this segment by launching many innovative\nproducts. We are proud to have served over 1 million customers uptill now, and our family is constantly\ngrowing.We have built a complex and high-converting eCommerce system, and our monthly traffic has grown to a\nmillion. We are looking to build a visionary and agile team to help fuel our growth and contribute towards\nfurther advancing the continuously evolving product.\nFunding:\nWe raised $5 million in a Series A funding.\nNutrabay is an equal opportunity employer. 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