Platform Head - Automobile

Roles & Responsibilities:

1. Understands and develop platform strategy and drives platform portfolio clarity and consensus on project categorization by translating or developing specific goals through project management plan.

2. Drives innovation at platform level, establishes platform variants & configurability targets considering all global variants. Ensures tracking of on-going changes in the product requirements & creates schedules for these changes by deciding phasing-in & phasing-out of products.

3. Maintains existing platform/products defining new variants introductions, supervising feasibility study for the required changes

4. Consolidates market requirements collaborating with Product Planning and leads the Quality Function Deployment (QFD) in customer insighting phase with Product Planning and all COEs to establish product functionalities and requirements for the different aggregates.

5. Support COEs to study predict the future trends / technologies in the market and to conduct a feasibility study to understand the scope of implementation in the respective area of business/function

6. Leads the definition of the platform architecture by collaborating with all COEs and the platform leaders

7. Ensures that the platform architecture matches with the plants and the production requirements

8. Planning, forecasting & allocation of resources for various projects collaborating with COEs to ensure optimum utilization of resources by continuously striving for excellence.