Sajjan Suthar

Meticulous acquisition R&D manager with international collaboration, strong organizational skills, ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy. Deliberate trouble-shooter rectifying glitches and solving problems in little time.

Proven history of initiating and delivering successful projects right from proof of concept followed up with business acquisitions, development & SOP handover in large complex development and production environments.

Mechanical Application Manager with 9years & counting international experience in R&D of automobile Industry. Experienced personal for business acquisitions, customer services, part development and business relationship building. Technical R&D representative working in tandem with sales team as application engineer

ZF India Pvt. Ltd, Pune (India) (ZF Group)

Aug.2018 – Current Customer Engineering Manager (CEM) [ZF India Private Ltd. Pune (INDIA)]

• Technical R&D representative working in tandem with sales team as application engineer for passenger car’s chassis components such as suspension ball joints, tie rods, stabilizer links, control arms for all the OEMs in India.
• Streamlined the technical signoff for all the RFQs as being technical support for product justification, DVP&R finalization and supplying optimized technical product to customers from OEMs and Tier1 suppliers for India & global exports.
• Managed technical projects to deliver product from concept to series production with detail track of quality cost and time of deliverables.
• Key responsibility holder for the customer satisfaction as technical project manager.
• Negotiate cross project technical content, specifications & standards to align it according to current project needs and market requirements.
• Translated technical concepts and information into terms parties could easily Led the team for technical problem-solving, handling product change requests and necessary management escalations to save project’s QCD (Quality, Cost, Delivery) targets to achieve on-time completion of the project deliverables.

2010 – 2014 Bachelor of Technology (B-Tech), Mechanical Engineering

Symbiosis International University, Pune Maharashtra (India)