Must have a good technical background, strong vision, ability to work with the customer at a high level as well as grass-roots, and someone who can communicate clearly internally and externally. This position will unify and manage all technical disciplines within BRAIN Division PGs for Specific Customer Group
Business Development
Work with the Indian Customer business development team and ensure customer/market trends and needs are identified and aligned with BRAIN Product Groups
Identifies and supports advanced development projects and NPA
Ensure customer business is accurately captured in MTP/TDE effort
Ensure that the customers requirements are all identified, negotiated and well understood by the project teams
Input to business case strategies according to knowledge of the market and competitor's position
Lead and conduct all possible actions in order to be able to submit, within the time limits, a competitive quotation technically and economically.
Single point of contact and key technical management interface with customer R&D management to align on strategic collaboration
Drive and facilitate VA/VE initiatives to achieve rigorous regional cost objectives while maintaining full adherence to safety standards.
R&D
Define with R&D teams the technical customer strategies
Oversee product development of specific customer group related business
Manage and communicate with cross functional teams
Define & arbitrate on project priority and resource allocation
Ensure a reuse strategy for product development is deployed to minimize cost & effort
Ensure compliance to the project budget ( R&D ), ensure the team has all the tools and infra to execute specific customer group projects and ensure delivery of the project on-time, on-cost and with quality expected.
Strong knowledge on Product development process and industrialization and vehicle development milestone is preferred
Possess knowledge of Indian Automotive Industry Standards (AIS) and emerging regional ADAS regulatory frameworks and BNCAP/ E NCAP details
Team Management
Provide operational leadership in helping teams identify, develop synergy, efficiency and coordinated actions that meet customer demands and BRAIN objectives.
Adhere to and coach team for application of all the standards and process applicable for the Product Group and Customer Group
Promote Valeo Values and mindset of continuous improvement with project team
Ensure adherence to all Valeo policies including Code of Ethics, Compliance, Anti-trust, 5 Axes, Health & Safety and R&D Development and Quality Assurance Policies
People Mgt
Regular review of the staffing needs.
Define personal development plans
Conduct yearly performance reviews as per Valeo's HR procedure
Identify expertise needs in the team, incl. the competence matrix and the definition of training plans, proposing individuals for expert path etc.
