Senior Manager_Customer Chief Engineer - XC

Job Description

Key tasks & responsibilities

• Technical Strategy Leader for customer account
  • Get and influence OEM requirements to make sure that the right product (BU, cross-BU or cross-division) is offered at the right time
  • Active contribution to the CCE community to support Domain product strategy cross customer and cross BUs/Divisions to develop new business opportunities
  • Be the OEM voice within the Domain to influence product strategy
  • Monitor the marketplace relative to the performance of competitors products, planned customer applications and emerging new technologies and trends to ensure a competitive position
  • Provide market-insight-view to customer based on trustful relation (4-eye-conversation)
  • identify the customer profile in order to guide Domain-internally to deal with the customer's expectations, processes and mindset
  • Technical consultancy towards acquisition and project managers
• Innovation
  • One face to the customer to drive the innovation at OEM
  • Promote Bosch Innovations at Customer and align road map implementation with the customer
  • Driving/pushing/executing advanced studies
  • Look and think across all BU's and BBM for new business opportunities
• Project Management
  • Sponsor of all C/D customer projects within one BU and all cross-BU projects
  • Know-how transfer and good practice sharing internally/externally
  • Ensure proper project planning
  • Engineering budget management with applicable business units

Qualifications

• Graduate / Post graduate University education in Engineering (Preferably CS, EC )

Experience:

• Technical background and cross-functional customer team knowledge
• At least 10 years management experience from engineering, product management or project management. Preferably working experience within the Electronics / Cross domain

Preferred:
Management experience from engineering, product management or project management

Core skills:
Large technical knowledge over all XC product portfolio incl. SW and services
Ability to evaluate a technical solution at vehicle level (system competence)
Deep Knowledge OE expectations/pain points
Customer process know-how
Project management processes (enabler for sponsor)

Communication:
Structured communication (internally and externally, at all managements levels) tailored according to customer DNA
Able to convince BU's about the importance of scope and future impact.

Entrepreneurial skills:
Able to define the financial pre-requisites and network to enable solutions
Ability to look and think across all BU's and BBM to propose new ideas and holistic solution
Able to define a technical customer strategy

Leadership:
Able to work in and build up collaboration teams to create additional values and growth
Able to lead a team (Manager role)
Strategic skills and thinking
Future oriented person, eager to learn about new things
Creative
Lateral thinking / think out of the box

Good Leader/Entrepreneur
Result orientation (on time/spec/budget) and strong focus on deliverables
Good team player
Coaching ability
Pro-active
Strives for excellence

Customer oriented
Social competence (Persuasiveness/ empathy)
Stress resistant

Commercial/Technical affinity and background
Good Communication Skills