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Bajaj Healthcare has hired Shreekumar Shankarnarayan Nair as its Chief Operating Officer, starting November 27, 2025. The pharmaceutical company is bringing on someone who has spent 40 years working in drug manufacturing and getting products from factories to customers.​

Who Is Shreekumar Nair?

Shreekumar Nair studied science at SIES College in Mumbai and got a diploma in materials management. He spent most of his working life solving real problems in pharmaceutical factories across India.​

He most recently worked at Alembic Pharmaceuticals, where he ran their supply chain and operations until he retired in July 2025. Before that, he worked at Glenmark Pharmaceuticals from 2003 to 2009, managing their supply operations. In 2021, he won the Lifetime Achievement Award in pharmaceutical supply chain work.​

What Bajaj Healthcare Does

Bajaj Healthcare runs 15 factories in Gujarat and Maharashtra that make medicines and the active ingredients that go into them. The factories make 730 tons of active ingredients every month and produce 100 million finished medicine units.​

The factories pass inspections from the US FDA and European authorities, so they can sell internationally. The company also recently started processing opium gum and poppy straw for the government in a specialized facility.​

Why This Hire Matters Right Now

Bajaj Healthcare just reported strong numbers. In the last quarter, profits went up 17.56% to Rs 11.11 crore and sales grew 11.13% to Rs 147.91 crore. But the pharmaceutical business is cutthroat. Everyone is fighting to make medicines cheaper while keeping quality up. Factories have to run smoothly or the margins disappear.​

Shreekumar Nair will oversee all the factories and make sure they work efficiently. He needs to cut waste, keep quality high, follow government rules, and maintain relationships with the big international companies that have bought from Bajaj for 30 years.​

The Leadership Team

Sajankumar R. Bajaj runs the company as Chairman and Managing Director. Anil C. Jain is the Managing Director. Now Nair joins them to handle operations day to day.

What This Means

Bajaj Healthcare is betting that good operations management wins in this industry. You can have good products and good salespeople, but if your factories don’t run smoothly, you lose money and customers go elsewhere. By hiring someone who has spent 40 years fixing factory problems, the company is saying it takes operations seriously.

That’s a signal to investors and employees that management knows what actually matters in pharmaceutical manufacturing.​