Customer R&D Technical Manager

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.

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