Mission

Continued Customer Satisfaction through the delivery of P1 development projects on time and within agreed resource and budget and quality criteria.

Responsibilities

General

• Responsible for overall management of Vision R&D Operations for the Product Line.

• Responsible for the P1 project delivery of all Vision PL projects across all regions.

• Ensure each Vision Operation entity are performing in terms of Resource and Budget Management.

• Maximize profitability across DVS P1 Projects (D&D and BOMs to CAA or better)

• Owner of MTP2 Input for P1 and P1 Target projects.

Resources and budget management 

• Agree with the PL R&D Director MTP2 and follow budgets and resources related to his project portfolio 

• Review and manage resources dedicated to Operations across the PL.

• Deliver on quarterly basis an 18 month load forecast for all operations entities.

• Implement competence improvement plans across operations entities

• Develop and implement efficiency improvement plans 

• Management of the Vision Operations Site support teams including people management, status reporting, interaction with other functions within relevant Site (HR, IS, Facilities, Health & Safety)

• N+1 & N+2 line management for reports including: Travel authorization, holiday approval, absence recording, annual appraisal, objective setting & training need analysis completion. 

• Support recruitment of new hires for the continued development of the assigned R&D Operations in line with Vision R&D strategic direction

Product development for Customer Projects

• Support Business Development/RFQ Response as requested by Vision R&D management 

• Track and publish customer projects status for all Vision operations

• Implement Standardization strategy, escalate Lessons Learned to improve the Standards

• In charge of the robust design in line with Metier standards and Industrial network for manufacturability

• Review and challenge Destandardization requests before release

• Implement methodologies  and Tools  necessary to state of the art developments

• Manage development according to quality, cost and timing requirements by implementing effective DRs, TMMs and TCs

Customer interface and TDP contribution

• Based on the highlights of the project scope, contribute to the construction of the TDP(s) around components, products, systems, integrating customer trends and drivers for all Vision Operations

• Manage the customer intimacy with regular meetings

• Support the technical communications with the customers across all Operation entities.                  

Key Competences (Transversal/Professional)