DEPUTY. MANAGER - DE - DAC - CV CDMM
Mahindra Group · Posted Oct 6
Automotive, farm equipment, information technology, financial services, and hospitality services
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About the role
Mahindra Group is hiring a Deputy Manager in Chennai for component development within its automotive operations. The role covers supplier sourcing, RFQ/TSO processes, techno-commercial evaluation, cost benchmarking, localization, and APQP/PPAP compliance for automotive components including steering, brakes, and cooling systems. It involves cross-functional coordination with engineering, quality, manufacturing, supplier, and programme teams to ensure component readiness through SOP.
What you will do
- Manage component development from RFQ through design finalization, development, validation, tooling and SOP.
- Handle RFQ, TSO, technical evaluation, commercial quotes, Quote synthesis and drive should be costing.
- Evaluate supplier technical proposals, manufacturing feasibility, capacity, tooling and investment requirements.
- Coordinate with Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, Supplier and Programme teams for component development and issue resolution.
- Drive should-costing, cost benchmarking, VA/VE, localization and cost-reduction activities.
- Manage supplier readiness for prototype, validation, pre-production and SOP requirements.
- Track tooling, prototype parts, FTG and development milestones and ensure timely closure.
- Support supplier development for quality, delivery, capacity and process capability.
- Manage commercial activities including price finalization, development/tooling cost and cost escalation/de-escalation.
- Drive resolution of supplier issues impacting programme timing, cost or component readiness.
- Ensure compliance with APQP, PPAP and Mahindra quality requirements.
- Release of PR/PO, proto PO, Accessment of proto quotes, evaluation of quotes
- Component development milestones
- RFQ / TSO / commercial quote closure
- Cost and savings targets
- Supplier readiness and FTG
- QCD performance
- VA/VE and localization
- Tooling and development cost
- Supplier quality and delivery
- Timely closure of development issues
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 4-8 years of Experience
- Industry Preferred Automotive Industry
- BE/B.Tech in Mechanical/Automobile/Production or related engineering discipline.
- Component development and materials management
- RFQ and TSO process
- Techno-commercial evaluation
- Commercial quote analysis, quote synthesis and negotiation
- Should-costing and cost benchmarking
- VA/VE and localization
- Supplier development and sourcing
- APQP, PPAP and DFM/DFA
- Automotive manufacturing process knowledge
- Programme and milestone tracking
- Knowledge of Steering, Brakes and Cooling System / Heat Exchanger components
- Good hands on MS office, SAP usage and T code awareness
- Cross-functional coordination and CFT management
- Stakeholder management
- Supplier relationship management
- Problem solving and decision making
- Negotiation and influencing
- Ownership and result orientation
- Risk identification and mitigation
- Planning and execution
- Analytical and data-driven approach
- Effective communication
- Should be good team player.
- Will be required to travel extensively at supplier end for project development and proto developments
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Mahindra Group
The Mahindra Group is a multinational conglomerate federation of companies with a presence across more than 20 industries globally. The group holds leadership positions in utility vehicles, farm equipment, information technology, and financial services. Driven by its core purpose to enable people to Rise, Mahindra operates across over 100 countries.
- Industry
- Conglomerate
- Company size
- 327000+ employees
- Founded
- 1945-10-02
- Location
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Chairman
Group CEO & Managing Director
Group Chief Financial Officer
Group Chief Technology Officer
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