Knowledge Analyst – Product Development, Auto

The PD CoC - Asia DtV Lab enables McKinsey's global Product Development practice to deliver distinctive expertise, proprietary methodologies and diagnostics with greater scale and speed with higher quality and consistency. Asia DtV Lab is an integral part of a network of global DtV lab. Your Impact: You would spend a significant part (~70% to 80 %) of your time working onsite as part of consulting teams helping solve complex client problems in product development domain. This work includes (and is not limited to) rationalizing product design based on competitive teardown analysis and customer insights, helping client teams estimate product should cost based on clean sheet costing (and hence design a low cost product), working on new product development arena reducing new product development time, cost and quality attributes, carrying on survey to understand improvement aspects of the organization to support an efficient and effective product development and improving thereof to build a sustainable capability for the R&D organization for clients, etc. The remaining time (~20% to 30%) will be spent on developing cutting-edge knowledge related to the Product Development (PD) domain and in delivering specialized remote services to clients. You will focus on product development & design across industries. You will be expected to work on various product development engagements, provide expert client service by way of product teardown analysis, supplier development recommendations, clean sheet costing, cost saving ideas/lever identification. You will also be required to support development and maintenance of various practice knowledge initiatives (build Firm's knowledge on product development related topics). This is a global role (cross geography, cross industry) and would work well for those who truly envision themselves growing into 'experts' within the PD domain. You will be based out of either Chennai or Gurugram, as part of Product Development Center of Competence (PD CoC) – Asia DtV Lab, a group of expert consultants with domain expertise in topics related to product development. The team supports several dimensions of Product Development and Procurement (PDP) topics, like product development diagnostics for assessment of improvement opportunity, margin transformation support through product redesign and implementation of relevant solutions & frameworks, R&D process re-design for better time to market and cost of design, and reducing complexity by adopting modular product designs.

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