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- Posted By: SKP Placements, Chennai
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- Date Posted: 3rd Sep 2010
- Salary: negotiable
- Location: Arumbakkam (600001)
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- Full Description:
Principal Responsibility:
To drive growth in sales and profit margin through the introduction of new products into global markets in conjunction with India sales and marketing.
The global engineering teams are focused into four distinct groups each with a global leader.
1. “Core Engineering” new product development. This includes all of Engineering electro-mechanical NPI (eg wiring devices, cable management, circuit protection) and the Friedland ranges.
2. Electronics and Systems” new product development. This includes new electronics and software based products and systems (eg Ex-Or, Astral, Echo)
3. Current Products (product improvements addressing customer complaints, plant efficiency improvements etc)
4. Value and component engineering (VE/CE). This reduces the product cost through design or resourcing without reducing the product specification or performance to the market.
The India leadership role will manage the local team to cover all these areas and liaise with the global heads across all these four focus areas. The primary goal will be to drive growth from new product introduction. This new product introduction into the India market will be driven by new development, buying in new products from third parties and bringing existing products into India from other parts of Engineering centers.
New product developments for India which involve significant design will leverage the mechanical, electronic and software teams outside of Engineering center India.
New Product Development and Introduction
• Leverage the global engineering team and NPI process to deliver market leading, IP protected products that drive industry leading growth and profitability for India Center. The key measures of success will be market share and organic sales and margin growth driven by the introduction of new products.
• Directly responsible and providing NPI programme management excellence and leadership for all India new product development projects.
• Develop an organisation with a close working relationship with sales and marketing. With the India marketing leader develop the marketing and engineering teams to have an intimate understanding of the market dynamics, customer base, competition, competitor’s products, emerging relevant technologies, legislation and relevant external mega trends
• To deliver NPI programme management excellence:
o To ensure new products are delivered on time, on product and project cost budgets
o To deliver year on year improvements in time to market
o To deliver 5 – 6 sigma customer and manufacturing quality levels from new products
Responsibility for programme management:
o Interface with marketing to establish a basic project plan at early stages of product definition.
o Project manage mixed discipline team including engineering (hardware, software and mechanical) marketing, procurement, production, quality and finance.
o Work with marketing during the market research phase
o Concept design. Leverage the Malaysia and Bangalore design teams for mechanical and electronics / software developments respectively.
o Detailed design and development. Leverage the Malaysia and Bangalore design teams for mechanical and electronics / software developments respectively.
o Prototype build and test
o Introduction into manufacturing
o Work with marketing during the market launch phase
o Responsible for developing and managing all aspects of the plan and budget.
o Complete responsibility for delivering the project on time, to budget and to customer satisfaction.
o Reporting monthly on project progression.
o Identify and develop contingency plans to mitigate risks.
Typical NPI project duration is from 6-9 months to 2-3 years for a major program.
Current Product Management
• Interface with the global Head of Current Products to provide India current product leadership including
o India Product Improvement
o India Design Service (product specials)
o Embed a current product management engineering processes
o Manage the design registration and patent portfolio for India
Value and Component Engineering
• Interface with the Engineering global Head of VE / CE to ensure India beats it VE / CE targets.
• Ensure effective and robust global engineering processes and organisational training and development.
To drive growth in sales and profit margin through the introduction of new products into global markets in conjunction with India sales and marketing.
The global engineering teams are focused into four distinct groups each with a global leader.
1. “Core Engineering” new product development. This includes all of Engineering electro-mechanical NPI (eg wiring devices, cable management, circuit protection) and the Friedland ranges.
2. Electronics and Systems” new product development. This includes new electronics and software based products and systems (eg Ex-Or, Astral, Echo)
3. Current Products (product improvements addressing customer complaints, plant efficiency improvements etc)
4. Value and component engineering (VE/CE). This reduces the product cost through design or resourcing without reducing the product specification or performance to the market.
The India leadership role will manage the local team to cover all these areas and liaise with the global heads across all these four focus areas. The primary goal will be to drive growth from new product introduction. This new product introduction into the India market will be driven by new development, buying in new products from third parties and bringing existing products into India from other parts of Engineering centers.
New product developments for India which involve significant design will leverage the mechanical, electronic and software teams outside of Engineering center India.
New Product Development and Introduction
• Leverage the global engineering team and NPI process to deliver market leading, IP protected products that drive industry leading growth and profitability for India Center. The key measures of success will be market share and organic sales and margin growth driven by the introduction of new products.
• Directly responsible and providing NPI programme management excellence and leadership for all India new product development projects.
• Develop an organisation with a close working relationship with sales and marketing. With the India marketing leader develop the marketing and engineering teams to have an intimate understanding of the market dynamics, customer base, competition, competitor’s products, emerging relevant technologies, legislation and relevant external mega trends
• To deliver NPI programme management excellence:
o To ensure new products are delivered on time, on product and project cost budgets
o To deliver year on year improvements in time to market
o To deliver 5 – 6 sigma customer and manufacturing quality levels from new products
Responsibility for programme management:
o Interface with marketing to establish a basic project plan at early stages of product definition.
o Project manage mixed discipline team including engineering (hardware, software and mechanical) marketing, procurement, production, quality and finance.
o Work with marketing during the market research phase
o Concept design. Leverage the Malaysia and Bangalore design teams for mechanical and electronics / software developments respectively.
o Detailed design and development. Leverage the Malaysia and Bangalore design teams for mechanical and electronics / software developments respectively.
o Prototype build and test
o Introduction into manufacturing
o Work with marketing during the market launch phase
o Responsible for developing and managing all aspects of the plan and budget.
o Complete responsibility for delivering the project on time, to budget and to customer satisfaction.
o Reporting monthly on project progression.
o Identify and develop contingency plans to mitigate risks.
Typical NPI project duration is from 6-9 months to 2-3 years for a major program.
Current Product Management
• Interface with the global Head of Current Products to provide India current product leadership including
o India Product Improvement
o India Design Service (product specials)
o Embed a current product management engineering processes
o Manage the design registration and patent portfolio for India
Value and Component Engineering
• Interface with the Engineering global Head of VE / CE to ensure India beats it VE / CE targets.
• Ensure effective and robust global engineering processes and organisational training and development.
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