Arvind Ravishankar
Manager Corporate Strategy Product Planning & Transformation
Albstadt
Summary
Talented Manager with strong International exposure and insights into the Automotive Industry. Highly result oriented and strong capabilities in planning, strategy definitions, stake holder management and communication across various strategic topics and projects.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Manager Corporate Strategy Product Planning & Transformation Projects
ZF Group (ZF Friedrichshafen A.G)
5 2021 - Current
- Responsible for corporate & cross-divisional product strategy reviews annually for the Board for the Integrated & Passive Safety tech domain within ZF
- Responsibility for overarching planning premises for 5 product lines within ZF as well as responsibility for scenario modelling & quantification, trend monitoring, legislation impact analysis for major markets
- Support M&A/cooperation projects & Business Field Analysis with market and technology insights, drive jointly with Sales & product planning functions the "Voice of Customers" mapping
- Conduct product-market fit analysis & commercial evaluation of business cases for innovation & core development projects
Account Manager Integrated Safety + New Automotive Customers & Heavy Commercial Vehicles
ZF Group (ZF Automotive Germany GmbH)
2019.10 - 2021.05
- Drive business development efforts for Integrated Safety technologies across all customers including NACs and HCVs with the target business win of 100Mi € globally
- Point of contact to support customer on all Integrated Safety technology topics and commercial inputs (Volume, Price, Development & Tooling costs, Customer Workshops etc.)
- Leading Customer Quote process with leadership for on-hand RFI/RFQs
- Support market and competitor screening and benchmarking.
Customer Engineer - Integrated Safety
ZF Group (TRW Automotive GmbH)
2018.01 - 2019.09
- Compilation of Advanced Engineering project definitions for Integrated Safety, Techno-Commercial presentations for the customer teams in view of CQA (Capex, BOM Cost, Engineering Effort and other product cost)
- Strong coordination with Sales & Program Management in view of advanced engineering programs
- Handle management of budgets & recoveries for all advanced customer engineering projects
- Managing regular status updates and progress reports of ongoing engineering projects to management
- Preparation & presentation of relevant material for customer requests and customer workshops.
International Post Graduate Trainee
ZF Friedrichshafen A.G
2016.10 - 2017.12
- Rotation 1: Long-range Product Strategy and Product Innovation Industrialization - BU OSS(Oct2016-Jan2017) Location: ZF TRW, Alfdorf (Germany)
- Rotation 2: VA/VE measures implementation process improvement - Div P(Feb 2017 - May 2017) Location: ZF Friedrichshafen A.G, Saarbrücken(Germany)
- Rotation 3: Operational and Strategic planning for Global Steering Sales - BU Steering (June 2017 - Sep 2017) Location: ZF TRW, Washington Township - Michigan, USA
- Rotation 4: Artificial Intelligence for Corporate Communications - Digitalization (Oct 2017 - Dec 2017) Location: ZF Friedrichshafen A.G, Friedrichshafen , Germany.
Marketing Intern
EVONIK INDUSTRIES
2015.05 - 2015.12
- Market Strategy for Road Marking Business, Idea Evaluation and Innovation Strategy Development, develop a continuous development program to foster soft skills among the growing sales, technical, and marketing teams.
Graduate Apprenticeship Trainee
REXROTH BOSCH GROUP
2012.02 - 2013.02
- Customer Order Production Planning, Sourcing and Procurement of direct and indirect materials, Inventory Handling, Prototype processing to assist development team with new releases.
Education
Master of Science - Management Engineering
Politecnico Di Milano
Milan 2013.01 - 2015.05
Master of Science - Business Management
Loughborough University
Loughborough, UK 2014.01 - 2015.05
Mechanical Engineering - Bachelor of Engineering
Visvesvaraya Technological University
Bangalore, India 2007.01 - 2011.05
Skills
Strategic Planning
TOP management Engagement
Critical Thinking & Problem Solving
Market Research
Product Planning
Areas of Interest
- Strategy & High Impact Projects
- Product & Portfolio Management
- Business Development & M&A
- Market & Customer Insights
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: Date of Birth
- Nationality: Nationality
Languages
English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
German
Intermediate (B1)
Software
Microsoft Powerpoint
Microsoft Excel
PowerBI
Mural
Timeline
Account Manager Integrated Safety + New Automotive Customers & Heavy Commercial Vehicles
ZF Group (ZF Automotive Germany GmbH)
2019.10 - 2021.05
Customer Engineer - Integrated Safety
ZF Group (TRW Automotive GmbH)
2018.01 - 2019.09
International Post Graduate Trainee
ZF Friedrichshafen A.G
2016.10 - 2017.12
Marketing Intern
EVONIK INDUSTRIES
2015.05 - 2015.12
Master of Science - Business Management
Loughborough University
2014.01 - 2015.05
Master of Science - Management Engineering
Politecnico Di Milano
2013.01 - 2015.05
Graduate Apprenticeship Trainee
REXROTH BOSCH GROUP
2012.02 - 2013.02
Mechanical Engineering - Bachelor of Engineering
Visvesvaraya Technological University
2007.01 - 2011.05
Manager Corporate Strategy Product Planning & Transformation Projects
ZF Group (ZF Friedrichshafen A.G)
5 2021 - Current
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