Customer R&D Technical Manager
Valeo
- Location
- Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
- Job type
- Full-time
Required skills
- business case
- compliance
- cross functional
- ethics
- product development process
About the role
Valeo
Website:
valeo.com
Job details:
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.
- Conflict resolution and negotiation skills
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