Associate Director - Automotive Consulting (8-18 yrs)

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:

1. 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.

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

3. 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

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