Aditya Prabhu

About Aditya Prabhu

I’m a transformational Operations Leader with over 13 years of experience driving end-to-end improvements across manufacturing, supply chain, and engineering functions. My background is rooted in technical depth and strategic execution, and I’ve had the opportunity to lead large-scale initiatives across global organizations—from consolidating manufacturing footprints and leading major continuous improvement programs, to executing divestitures and transforming manual operations into highly automated systems.

Experience

1. Director of Npi, Process Development and Service Operations

   Sonova Group

   May 2023 — Present · US

   CONSOLIDATION OF INTERNATIONAL MANUFACTURING SITE - Lead core team of 15 cross-functional specialists in establishing a new production facility for hearing aids. Established end-to-end process for manufacturing, supply chain, engineering logistics, and ERP systems for the site in 18 months. Results included scaling production from 20% to 90% in 18 months. Reduced delivery times 40% and improved customer satisfaction scores from 6 to 8.2TEAM AND TALENT OPTIMIZATION - Restructured the engineering organization to strategically align organizational talent and capability to the 5-year roadmap. Led interviewing and hiring processes to scale the team over 6 months while delivering on engineering goals across 4 verticals. Enhancements to team structure and capacity yielded 50% increase in project delivery and 10% improvement in yearly engagement survey scores of the engineering organizationMANUFACTURING LEADERSHIP FOR INTERNATIONAL SITES - Led a team of engineering and operations personnel in generation and built out of strategic roadmap for engineering and operations strategy at 4 different sites across North and South America. High-impact manufacturing process improvements resulted 7% cost reduction across all 4 sites and a 12% performance improvement achieved via adoption of technology.DELIVERED 4.5M IN COST SAVINGS THROUGH OPERATIONS TRANSFORMATION - Led end-to-end redesign of refurbishment processes for the hearing aid product across 4 sites while running a $100M Operations — diagnosed customer pain points, reengineered bottleneck operations, and drove SQDCIP(Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, Inventory and Productivity) metric improvements — reducing costs by $4.5M within 7 months while positioning teams to consistently achieve 93% On time in Full and sustainable COGS reduction.

Education

• Savitribai Phule Pune University

  Bachelor's Degree, Mechanical Engineering

• Rutgers University

  Master's Degree, Industrial & Systems Engineering

Skills

• Operations Research
• Six Sigma
• Ms Project
• Production Planning
• Minitab
• Process Engineering
• Autocad
• Project Planning
• Engineering
• Value Stream Mapping
• Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (Fmea)
• Supply Chain Engineering
• Kaizen
• Microsoft Project
• Arena Simulation Software
• Quality Management
• Continuous Improvement
• 5s
• Industrial Engineering
• Operations Management
• Design of Experiments
• Manufacturing
• Spc
• Lean Manufacturing
• Fmea
• Supply Chain Management
• Jit