New Product Development Introduction Manager
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Pragmatic, Influential and Visionary New Product Development Introduction Leader with 2-decades of experience in driving complex engineering and new product development for vehicle safety, chassis, and driveline systems. Proven expertise in delivering full product lifecycles - from concept to launch for OEMs/customers. Adept in Agile methodology, APQP led toll-gate and CMP governance with a sharp focus on cost, quality, and timing.
Recognized for delivering high-performing teams, mitigating risks, and ensuring customer-focused, technically robust viable solutions
New Product Development and Flawless Launch: Executed APQP-led NPD multiple programs with agile methodology, achieving 100% on-time PPAP with zero post-launch changes, ensuring robust design maturity and market readiness, integrating structured change management process (CMP) for 100% change delivery.
Build, Validation & Release: Test sample build, DVP-led validation across part, subsystem, and vehicle levels, while establishing end-to-end test operations and homologation processes to ensure OEM compliance, traceability, and quality at every stage.
Executive Engagement: Recognized for strong customer-supplier interactions, executive-level presentations, and strategic stakeholder alignment and fostering collaborative growth.
Engineering Change Excellence: Revamped CMP processes to ensure 100% milestone adherence, reducing design iterations and boosting response agility.
P&L and Strategic Alignment: Owned program business cases, balancing technical milestones with ROI targets and long-term strategic impact with phase-wise gate reviews with risk mitigation, managing resources, adherence to cost, quality, and timing targets.
Process and Quality Focus: Achieved zero audit NCs report via lean practices and adherence to ISO/IATF16949, ensuring system compliance and continuous improvement.
Team Leadership and Mentorship: Passionate about building multicultural team and mentored a team of project management, design, validation and application engineering, fostering accountability, ownership, trust and a performance-driven culture, with honed problem-solving skills, and “Roll up your sleeves and GET-THE-JOB-DONE” winning attitude
Master’s Degree: MBS (Master in Business Studies) IBMR, Pune University
Bachelor’s Degree: BEng Mechanical (Bachelors of Engineering) – Cusrow Wadia Institute, Pune University
Post Graduate Degree: PGDip BM (Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management) – IBMR, Pune University
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