Job Description:

Position: Head – NPD

Location: Zaroli - vapi

Experience: 20 - 22 Years

Industries: Automobile

Responsibilities:
- Centralized NPD Governance
- Act as single point of ownership for NPD across all plants.
- Define and deploy standard NPD processes, APQP framework, and documentation
- common to all locations.
- Approve and monitor NPD timelines, milestones, and launch readiness at each plant.
- Ensure process discipline and consistency across plants.
- Multi-Plant Project Management
- Allocate NPD projects to plants based on capacity, capability, technology, and customer requirement.
- Track progress of all projects through centralized review meetings and dashboards.
- Resolve inter-plant bottlenecks and resource conflicts.
- Ensure SOP readiness simultaneously across concerned plants.
- Technical Standardization & Best Practices
- Establish common plating and painting process standards, specifications, and control plans for all plants.
- Drive technology transfer and replication of proven processes between plants.
- pprove process changes,



current chemistries, and new coating technologies before plant implementation.
- Ensure uniform corrosion resistance, durability, appearance, and quality standards.
- Centralized Costing & Feasibility Control
- wn central feasibility approval for all RFQs (Export & Domestic).
- Standardize costing methodology, cycle time calculation, tooling norms, and scrap assumptions
- Validate plant-wise cost competitiveness and recommend right-plant sourcing.
- Drive group-level cost reduction and VA/VE initiatives.
- Customer & Export Coordination (Central)
- Act as central technical interface for key OEMs, Tier-1 and export customers.
- Support customer technical reviews, audits, trials, and approvals across plants.
- Align customer requirements uniformly and avoid deviation between locations.
- Ensure compliance with export regulations, customer-specific standards, REACH /ROHS.
- Quality & Compliance Oversight
- Ensure all

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