Ashish S. Rajurkar
Loughrea,Ireland
Summary
Dynamic and results-driven professional with a strong foundation in leadership and management, complemented by exceptional analytical skills and technical proficiency. Demonstrates resilience and calm under pressure, ensuring effective regulatory compliance and attention to detail. Adept at people management and team building, fostering an environment of effective communication. Committed to leveraging these competencies to drive organisational success and achieve strategic goals.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work history
Site Head- Medical device
Biotech Europe, Roscommon
Roscommon, Ireland
05.2025 - 12.2025
- Managed operations at Roscommon and Sligo sites, leading a team of over 80 employees.
- Accountable for budgets and site P&L, realising 20% cost reductions in four months.
- Boosted production capacity by 86% through process optimisation strategies.
- Elevated overall equipment effectiveness by 10% through the implementation of lean practices.
- Maintained rigorous compliance with FDA regulations and international quality standards.
- Conducted takt time analyses that resulted in a 23% improvement in resource efficiency.
- Completed a €4.5M micro and EO project on time and within budget constraints.
- Established strong partnerships with leadership and regulatory bodies, enhancing site reputation in IOL manufacturing.
Operational excellence Manager & Pharmaceutical operation Support
Chanelle pharma, Loughrea
Loughrea, Ireland
09.2019 - 05.2025
- Transformed Veterinary and medical business group into a strategic approach that drove 11 % productivity improvement (€70M in value) across the organization in the last financial year.
- Process Improvement and Innovation: Identify areas for operational improvement, implement changes to enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and maintain product quality. Lead initiatives to introduce innovative technologies and methodologies.
- Responsible for the development, implementation and sustenance of Lean driven continuous improvement program
- Responsible for elimination of 8 types of waste from the process and system by applying VSM and process map.
- Responsible for Standardization of processes and systems, responsible for compliance improvement with zero defects
- Responsible for Strategy development and deployment.
- OEE Attack project: Achieved 15% OEE from 2019 to 2023, OEE increases from 30 % to 45%, 35% Cycle Time Reductions, and 100% RFT compliance improvements during continuous improvement program.
- Reduced cycle time of QC testing time by 33% (13 days to 7 days) by implementing Daily capacity management board, resulting in 49% improvement in batch releases.
- SIPOC implementation from Customer service to dispatch in order to create KPI dashboard.
- Overhauled process management structure and culture by implementing Lean six sigma concept, which helped restore 100% of production adherence, eliminated inefficiencies within 90 days of implementation (On time and in full reach to 90%)
- Succeeded in cleaning 9 million blisters, trained 1.2 billion tablets in FY 23-24 (16% improvement against last financial year)
- Spearheaded 28 Lean Six sigma initiatives, training over 150 employees, leading to a 25% reduction in production waste.
- Orchestrated complex OEE software integration (Digitalization) on 28 stations to enhance process flow, leading to a cost saving of €400K annually.
- Succeeded as an interim production manager led 50 staff of USFDA production site.
- Executed level 1, level 2 and level 3 Visual management board across the 3 sites of Chanelle – SHINGO model approach.
- Training and coaching on Open team to Executive delivery of LEAN six sigma projects directed at reducing waste, variation and improving Safety, quality and productivity.
- Coaching and training on Lean six sigma yellow belt to ensure successful implementation of culture of waste identification, elimination through deployment of LEAN tools.
- Key Responsibilities: (Operational excellence)
- Key Responsibilities: (Pharmaceutical operation support)
Assistant Manager : Lean management & Pharmaceutical operation
Sanofi, Goa
Goa
03.2011 - 09.2019
- Commanded Cultural transformation project across different sites of Sanofi in India and Indonesia
- Provided broad oversight leading cross-functional teams dedicated to improving company performance leveraging Lean Six Sigma’s Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control (DMAIC) process-Improvement roadmap, additionally coached green belt candidates across India and Indonesia
- Implemented SMS (Sanofi manufacturing system) in India and Indonesia.
- Provided broad oversight leading cross-functional teams dedicated to improving company performance leveraging Lean Six Sigma’s Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control (DMAIC) process-Improvement roadmap, additionally coached green belt candidates across India and Indonesia
- Reduced and sustained OOGs by substitution of suppliers of Excipients, API, and packaging material. (Paracetamol, Montelukast sodium)
- Executed SMED (Sanofi Manufacturing system) approach
- Implemented SMED, VSM, TFM, 5S, +QDCI, PDCA & Process mapping to improve %OEE. Improved OEE of Packaging equipment by 5 %
- Successfully resolved content uniformity issue on codeine formulation by monitoring, controlling & streamlining manufacturing processes
- Executed operational excellence project (Takt time analysis and VSM) that regularly delivered cycle time- PCT NMT 7 days.
- Increased batch size of various products to enhance productivity & effective utilization of machine occupancy, by this showed a favorable saving of ~20000 man-hours.
- Created production 2 department as a Wash less facility (water consumption reduction project)
- Increased DEHT and CTH study of IBCs from 10 days to 35 days resulted in productivity improvement.
- Improved capacity of trains by 23% through effective usage of DCM which was the bottleneck.
- Improved yield improvement projects (2% improvement on a codeine formulation compression station)
- Capacity debottlenecking project-Executed more than 70 validations in 9 months thereby improved plant capacity by 13%
- Conducted 11 monthly assessment of the plant across sites.
- Commanded Cultural transformation project across different sites of Sanofi in India and Indonesia
- Key Responsibilities: (Lean management -2017 to 2019)
- Key Responsibilities: (Pharmaceutical operation 2011 to 2017)
Production officer: Solid dosage form (Manufacturing & Packing)
Glenmark-Generics, Goa
Goa
07.2009 - 03.2011
- Provided comprehensive management of various production suits like dispensing, Granulation, coating, and compression and handlined skilled and unskilled operators in 3 shifts.
- Successfully managed the responsibility for the tablet and granulation Production module.
- Prepared 3 MPR and Weekly/Monthly Production reports.
- Provided training for Operating personnel on SOPs and cGMP guidelines.
- Preparation and revision of Operating instructions and SOPs for Production.
- Provided cleaning validation.
- Key Responsibilities
Executive: Solid dosage form (Manufacturing & Packing)
Wyeth Pharmaceutical, Goa
Goa
07.2007 - 07.2009
- Provided comprehensive management of various production suits like Steroids production, general tablets production and packing in 3 shifts.
- Successfully managed the responsibility for the packing activities.
- Document preparation such as SOP, BMR, and MFR.
- Production planning.
- Online verification of documents with respect to CGMP.
- Key Responsibilities
Education
Lean six sigma master black belt certification - under process
Claudius Consulting
UKSkills
- Leadership and management
- Attention to detail
- Regulatory compliance
- Analytical skills
- Effective communication
- Technical proficiency
- People management
- Resilience
- Calm under pressure
- Communication skills
- Team building
Accomplishments
- Awarded by Quality Excellence award Chanelle pharma by CQO.
- Awarded to create a wash less facility in production department @ Sanofi, India
- Awarded by Asia Pacific lead on lean implementation @ Sanofi, India & Indonesia
- Awarded by site head as a LEAN sustainability pillar member.
- Awarded every year as a best dancer @Sanofi Cultural event.
Behavior dimension
- Pragmatic, well-organized, goal oriented and determined person willing to lead Production, Opex & cross functional team.
- Open-minded & result-oriented personality to work transversally in a matrix organization.
- Collaborative approach across cross functions.
- Easy & quick adaptation to variable situations requiring analysis and decision making.
Timeline
Site Head- Medical device
Biotech Europe, Roscommon
05.2025 - 12.2025
Operational excellence Manager & Pharmaceutical operation Support
Chanelle pharma, Loughrea
09.2019 - 05.2025
Assistant Manager : Lean management & Pharmaceutical operation
Sanofi, Goa
03.2011 - 09.2019
Production officer: Solid dosage form (Manufacturing & Packing)
Glenmark-Generics, Goa
07.2009 - 03.2011
Executive: Solid dosage form (Manufacturing & Packing)
Wyeth Pharmaceutical, Goa
07.2007 - 07.2009
Lean six sigma master black belt certification - under process
Claudius Consulting