PwC - Associate Director - Automotive Consulting

LOS: Advisory

SBU: One Consulting

Competency: Automotive Consulting

Qualification; MBA

Years of experience:8+ years

Level: Associate Director

Location: Gurgaon & Pune

Roles & Responsibilities (essential functions and responsibilities of the job):

We are looking for experienced professionals for our Automotive consulting practice with proven and demonstrated experience in driving transformations with tangible outcomes.

Key responsibilities of the role may include:

1. Project Delivery / execution: Work with client C-level and lead projects - design solutions applicable to client problem statement and manage delivery of work products with the right levels of quality. Define deliverable content and facilitate buy-in of proposed solutions from top management levels at various automotive clients.

2. Business Development: Lead business development opportunities, conducting diagnostics and preparation of winning proposals

3. Automotive Domain Development: Lead development of assets and methodologies, development of point-of-view, research or white papers, development of marketing collateral, and publications in industry periodicals.

Experience:

- Ideally experience with Management or Business consulting firms related with Automotive/Future of Mobility Strategy, Innovation & Operations consulting. Alternatively, experienced professionals working with Indias top automotive companies with experience in strategy, supply chain, manufacturing, sales or marketing functions.

- We are looking for candidates with demonstrated experience in delivering tangible improvements in automotive OEM and component companies in India.

Areas of previous experience across 1 or more of the following:

- Strategy consulting

- Sales & marketing performance improvement

- Innovation Management

- Digital transformation

- Supply chain transformation

- Organization structure & productivity improvement

- Cost reduction across multiple levers in manufacturing e.g. raw material consumption, manpower cost, maintenance cost, spares & consumables cost, and energy & utility cost

- Data driven interventions for sales, marketing, manufacturing, supply chain

Education: MBA from a top tier institute; Any certification on any of the above areas would be preferred

Candidate specifications (insert the relevant personal skills here):

- Strong communication skills - written & verbal

- Strong presentation skills and experience of having dealt with CXO level

- Strong analytical skills

- Delivery of tangible value on projects

- Ability to lead projects across cross-functional teams

- Advanced knowledge of MS Excel, Word, Power Point

- The individual should possess and demonstrate high integrity and credibility as perceived by all those

with whom s/he will work

- The individual should have strong intellect coupled with proficient commercial instincts and business

acumen

- The individual must be willing to travel 70-80% in a month and flexible to adopt to a demanding

lifestyle

- Professional networking skills

- Sharp focus on quality delivery

- Ability to develop / customize solutions relevant to client

- Able to thrive in relatively unstructured situations, maturity and ability to handle pressure

- High initiative and drive, positive attitude and high commitment

- Ensure compliance to the firms standards, processes and policies

- The skills we look for in future employees (This is standard text that is incorporated into every job description. You do not need to add any content into this field. This is for your information only):

- All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviors that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients.