Director - Head of Automotive Infotainment / UX / Display HMI

Experience: 15 to 20 years

Build-up & Lead R&D in India for BA UX with 200+ engineers

Leadership

- Lead dedicated SW, FT and Q engineering groups in TCI (10 directs, 200+ total)

- Lead extended teams @ external partners

- Inspire/motivate Local Leaders/Manager/Teams to come up with lowest cost/best performance R&D solution

- Leverage synergies and force re-use across customer projects

- Drive methodical and organizational changes as necessary

- Dynamic Staffing of SW Project Teams and Taskforces

- Strive for quality excellence and push for innovations

QA

- Responsible for SW-quality of the customer projects under the responsibility of TCI

- Perform/Organize SW gate reviews for all projects in TCI responsibility

- Supervise SW KPIs and PCC for TCI projects on a regular basis

- Trigger LL management & best practice sharing

- Assure proper/deep testing, traceability as well as failure analysis across SW

Planning

- R&D SW, FT and Q estimations & R&D budget planning for local projects in TCI

- Cost Center planning

- Resource planning

- People Development & Training planning

Strategy

- Define India SW application strategy (generic, dedicated technologies / roadmaps and skills needed)

- Develop SW Application vision for location India and assigned customer projects regarding roles/skills/methodology

Functional amplitude / job complexity:

The role has multifunctional responsibilities:

Leading Leaders:

Leading Leaders (Lean Agile Leaders with their assigned employees) and Leading Business strategies (Business Owners)

Coaching and guiding leaders to improve business & program metrics

Developing new leaders

Organization Vision & Strategy:

Define and achieve the vision for the R&D India

Defining and achieving KPIs for R&D India

Builds up strategic technology competencies with respect to product portfolio/ program development

Drive the Heat management strategies into R&D India

Represent Business Area UX in Continental India, SCT Management, Tech Center India, Automotive Quality, cross BA Initiatives

Transforming the organization into agile organization

Central Functions Engagement:

Closely working with Tech Center India management team and central functions for Controlling, HR, Central Quality, Facility and IT topics

Represent Business Area UX in location related audits

Budget Management:

Manage SW Development Center budget for the Cost Centers

Manage SW Development Center invest and expenses

Manage SW Ramp-up India project

Supplier Management:

Define supplier strategy

Prepare Statement of work and evaluate external supplier

External Service budget planning

Responsible for External Service Delivery and Acceptance

Employee Capability Management:

Drive employees to operational excellence and ensure individual growth in competencies valuable for business/ program

Skill gap analysis and closing gaps

Build high performing teams

Develop technical experts

Resource Management:

Resource hiring, allocation and effective utilization

Training/ talent/ performance management of resources

Resource Retention

Responsible for resolving resource conflicts

Project Management (15+ projects in 2020):

Accountable for the quality of delivery of the project teams

Accountable for delivery on time and on budget of the project teams

Ensure customer & stakeholder satisfaction, handle escalations

This role has a major influence on the total success of the department

It is expected from the role to have major influence (power to decide, power to fulfill tasks independently) on the following responsibilities:

Leading Leaders

Budget Management

Supplier Management

Employee Capability Management

Resource Management

Central Functions Engagement

Project Management

It is expected to work closely with the Global SW team for the following responsibilities:

Organizational Vision and Strategy

Innovation:

The role demands innovation in terms technologies, process, methods and tools

The SW Development Center engineers will also be driven for innovative solutions that may translate to IP/ID/Patents

Competency in communication:

This role demands effective communication with Global SW Head, Tech Center India Head, Continental India Head and timely to Global R&D Head

This role also demands communicating to public media for HMI SW Development Center India branding

The role also needs effective communication and negotiation skills with External Supplier Automotive India Heads