Associate Director - Automotive Consulting

Looking for candidates only with Automotive Consulting experience and only from Cost reduction, cost optimization skill set

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:

- 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.

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

- 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 India's 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 firm's 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.