Senior Manager_Customer Chief Engineer - XC

Location: Chennai, TN, in

Company Description

In India, Bosch is a leading supplier of technology and services in the areas of Mobility Solutions, Industrial Technology, Consumer Goods, and Energy and Building Technology. Additionally, Bosch has in India the largest development center outside Germany, for end-to-end engineering and technology solutions. The Bosch Group operates in India through twelve companies: Bosch Limited – the flagship company of the Bosch Group in India – Bosch Chassis Systems India Private Limited, Bosch Rexroth (India) Private Limited, Bosch Global Software Technologies PVT LTD, Bosch Automotive Electronics India Private Limited, Bosch Electrical Drives India Private Limited, BSH Home Appliances Private Limited, ETAS Automotive India Private Limited, Robert Bosch Automotive Steering Private Limited, Automobility Services and Solutions Private Limited, Newtech Filter India Private Limited and Mivin Engg.Technologies Private Limited. In India, Bosch set-up its manufacturing operation in 1951, which has grown over the years to include 17 manufacturing sites, and seven development and application centers.The Bosch Group in India employs over 38,700 associates and generated consolidated sales of about ₨.30,368 crores (3.7 billion euros) in fiscal year 2022-23 of which a revenue exceeding ₨.14,929 crores (1.67 billion euros) was generated by Bosch Limited, the flagship entity.

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