PwC - Management Consulting Role - Automotive Domain

Roles & Responsibilities :

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

Key responsibilities of the role may include :

1. Project Delivery / Execution :

- Working with senior PwC professionals and/or leading teams to design solutions applicable to client's problem statement and manage delivery of modules, defining deliverable content, and ensuring buy-in of proposed solutions from top management levels at the client.

- Target and quantify the value of transformation opportunity, work on creating a point of view that can be presented to the C-suite and drive targeted improvement.

2. Business Development :

- Support on business development opportunities, conducting diagnostics and preparation of the proposal documents

3. Automotive Domain Development :

- Contribute to the firm's Automotive practice development initiatives.

- Support in development of assets and methodologies, development of point-of-view, research or white papers, support development of marketing collateral, public speaking and publication in industry periodicals

Experience :

- Years : 3-12 years of experience across stated areas below

- Ideally experience with Management or Business consulting firms related with Automotive Strategy & Operations consulting.

- Alternatively experience with manufacturing and production plant operations will be preferable or experience in organisation design, human capital consulting, financial transformation, cost reduction, or supply chain and procurement.

- 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 :

- Automotive Strategy consulting

- Sales and marketing performance improvement

- Digital transformation

- Manufacturing excellence and production process improvement

- Finance transformation

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

- Technology driven interventions for manufacturing, maintenance and quality

- Production planning and inventory optimization / working capital reduction

- Expert with TPM/ Six Sigma/ Lean methodology in manufacturing environment

Supply chain transformation - Demonstrated improvements in 1 or more of the following KPIs from your experience :

- Sales growth

- Cost optimisation

- Financial process agility

- EBIDTA improvement

- Throughput and productivity

- Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)

- Manufacturing Quality - Defect rate, internal rejection, first time right, cost of poor quality

Education : Engineer/ MBA is mandatory; Any certification on any of the above areas would be preferred

Candidate requirements :

- Strong communication skills - written & verbal

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

- Client stakeholder management skills

- Strong analytical skills

- Ability to lead projects across cross-functional teams

- Advanced knowledge of MS Excel, Word, Power Point

- Possess and demonstrate high integrity and credibility as perceived by all those with whom s/he will work

- Strong intellect coupled with proficient commercial instincts and business acumen

- Willing to travel 70-80% in a month and flexible to adopt to a demanding lifestyle

- Professional networking skills

- Sharp focus on quality delivery

- 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 firm's standards, processes and policies