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As a Senior Product Change Manager of Steering Products within Vehicle Motion Division, you will play an important role in driving the success of our North American portfolio. In this role, you will be overall responsible for change management, securing implementation of complex and cost-reduction changes, and actively shaping the product portfolio. You will work closely with cross-functional teams in the U.S., Mexico, and Europe, including our manufacturing plants, to facilitate the implementation of product changes, manage customer implementation scenarios, and accelerate time-to-market, thereby ensuring competitiveness and profitability.
Job Responsibility:
Lead Engineering Change Management (ECM) process from centralized customer account view
Key member of ECM Review Team (RT), steering and consulting side by side with Engineering and Quality Leads
First level interface/escalation to ECM Steering Committee (Senior Leadership)
Approve Engineering Change Requests (ECRs), Planning and Final Review, as central sales representative
Actively shape product portfolio via strategic insight into proposed changes and change management process
Evaluate and define criteria on quality and completeness of the ECR documentation prior to customer communication
Key interface between change representatives and Customer Team Project Managers (PJMs)
Organize the communication to the affected PJMs and distribute documents for customer communication
Coordinate documentation of customer requirements, affected Customer PJMs, and provide to change representative
Support Customer Teams with internal ECR Kick-Off Meetings while ensuring adherence to ECM guidelines
Increase transparency of ECM by maintaining a comprehensive change overview within ECM RT and reporting across various levels of the organization as needed
Quarterly review within Sr. Leadership on state of ECM across VM-NA including status of current and new KPI’s
Define, support, and deploy ECM training across the teams, as necessary
Share best practices across products and regions, with critical eye to ensure lean and effective ECM within VM-NA
Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline
5+ years of professional work experience in automotive industry (i.e. engineering, project management, or similar)
Strong change management process background required
2+ years of full product life cycle experience
Nice to have:
Self-driven, high energy and proactive with strong motivational skills who can lead teams toward a common goal
Individual must have ability to make independent decisions that may be of a complex nature
Strong organization skills to efficiently manage varying topics with process driven mind-set
Previous experience leading cross-functional teams with ability to quickly build internal networks
Strong VM product and product release process know-how from quotation to SOP
Change management experience from OEM and/or Bosch industrialization view
Proficient with Microsoft Office, SAP ECM Future or similar change management software