Director Strategic Planning

Driving Growth & Strategic opportunities

• Institutionalize strong “Ideation MOS” in partnership with CE&S Offering Management team and key global stakeholders. Build a strong pipeline of BTI and NPI ideas through periodic innovation hackathons and/or ideation sessions by working closely with Engineering and other cross-functional teams.
• Apply Offering Management tools to quickly identify customer needs, assess market size and competitive positioning during the ideation stage. Develop compelling “value propositions” and “user experience” roadmaps to shape the differentiated offerings.
• Build “open innovation culture” through broader engagement with external startup ecosystem, as well as key academic institutions. Partner with CE&S Offering management team in operationalizing the startup cohort program and integrate the engineering teams with selected startups to derive the business outcomes.
• Pro-actively work with cross functional stakeholders including VP GMs of GBEs, Offering Management Leaders, CE&S Offering Management function to run “Growth MOS”. Prioritize the growth investments based on short term and long-term GBE priorities.
• Drive the “community of practice” initiative leading into tangible business outcomes while building the future ready capabilities across AERO engineering teams. Ensure relevance of these practices to Aero environment by aligning them to business and technology STRAP priorities.
• Build strong customer centric culture through external ecosystem play.
• Define both short term and long-term regional strategy that includes customer connect in the region, accelerating product portfolio improvements, and investment allocation decisions to drive organic growth.
  

Responsibilities

Operational Rigor

• Own and drive “Growth MOS”, leverage the OML, HUE and Engineering functions across India, India, CZ, China sites to drive Growth in an integrated way.
• Influence Teardown and Competitor Benchmarking MOS with GBEs, and other key stake holders to achieve tangible outcomes.
• Partner with engineering teams to prioritize ideas and analyze technical feasibility for early-stage product concepts. Enable engineering participation in CE&S led Z21 discovery workshops and accelerate the Z21 process to make quick product Go/No Go decisions.
• Operationalize Growth SDP, oversee GBE SPOC MOS for effective execution, maintain scorecards, reporting RAIL, schedule and status for leadership and stakeholders.
  

Qualifications

Desired Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent. Minimum of 15+ years of product development experience, at least 4-5 years in leadership positions with commercial background, preferably exposure to P&L
• Experience of introducing new products into the market, right from the concept of the Idea to commercial success. Experience with design thinking, market research, and go-to-market strategies is a must.
• An entrepreneurial, creative problem solver who is persuasive and tenacious to bring cross-functional teams together to explore new ideas. Has an ability to look beyond the silos of the businesses to find the common threads that can drive innovation.
• Strong tactical and strategic skills required - Ability to consistently make timely decisions even in the face of complexity, balancing systematic analysis with decisiveness.
• Excellent communications skills - Conveying complex concepts clearly and persuasively to a variety of audiences, both verbally and in writing including executives (ALT, VPGM’s).
  

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