Manager-Customer Chief Engineer - XC

Key tasks & responsibilities

• Technical Strategy Leader for customer account
• Get and influence OEM requirements to make sure that the right product (BU, cross-BU or cross-division) is offered at the right time
• Active contribution to the CCE community to support Domain product strategy cross customer and cross BUs/Divisions to develop new business opportunities
• Be the OEM voice within the Domain to influence product strategy
• Monitor the marketplace relative to the performance of competitors' products, planned customer applications and emerging new technologies and trends to ensure a competitive position
• Provide market-insight-view to customer based on trustful relation (4-eye-conversation)
• identify the customer profile in order to guide Domain-internally to deal with the customer’s expectations, processes and mindset
• Technical consultancy towards acquisition and project managers
• Innovation
• One face to the customer to drive the innovation at OEM
• Promote Bosch Innovations at Customer and align road map implementation with the customer
• Driving/pushing/executing advanced studies
• Look and think across all BU’s and BBM for new business opportunities
• Project Management
• Sponsor of all C/D customer projects within one BU and all cross-BU projects
• Know-how transfer and good practice sharing internally/externally
• Ensure proper project planning
• Engineering budget management with applicable business units

Qualifications

• Graduate / Post graduate University education in Engineering (Preferably CS, EC )

Additional Information

Experience :

• Technical background and cross-functional customer team knowledge
• At least 10 years management experience from engineering, product management or project management. Preferably working experience within the Electronics / Cross domain

Preferred:

Management experience from engineering, product management or project management

Core skills:

Large technical knowledge over all XC product portfolio incl. SW and services

Ability to evaluate a technical solution at vehicle level (system competence)

Deep Knowledge OE expectations/pain points

Customer process know-how

Project management processes (enabler for sponsor)

Communication:

Structured communication (internally and externally, at all managements levels) tailored according to customer DNA

Able to convince BU’s about the importance of scope and future impact.

Entrepreneurial skills:

Able to define the financial pre-requisites and network to enable solutions

Ability to look and think across all BU’s and BBM to propose new ideas and holistic solution

Able to define a technical customer strategy

Leadership:

Able to work in and build up collaboration teams to create additional values and growth

Able to lead a team (Manager role)

Strategic skills and thinking

Future oriented person, eager to learn about new things

Creative

Lateral thinking / think out of the box

Good Leader/Entrepreneur:

Result orientation (on time/spec/budget) and strong focus on deliverables

Good team player

Coaching ability

Pro-active

Strives for excellence

Customer oriented:

Social competence (Persuasiveness/ empathy)

Stress resistant

Commercial/Technical affinity and background

Good Communication Skills