We are seeking a highly experienced and driven professional to join the Tenneco team as Manager – Product Launch. This role will be responsible for leading end-to-end product launch activities, ensuring seamless coordination across cross-functional teams and alignment with customer and organizational requirements. The position involves overseeing PPAP readiness, program timelines, and manufacturing feasibility, while ensuring transparency through structured documentation and reviews. The individual will drive capacity planning, cost assessments, and tooling requirements. This role requires close collaboration with plant teams and global stakeholders to conduct gate reviews, track action plans, and ensure timely execution of development milestones including sample builds and production signoffs. Additionally, the role focuses on driving protected launch, ramp-up activities, and successful transition to mass production, while capturing learnings for continuous improvement. Reporting into the respective leadership, this position demands strong technical expertise, program management skills,
and the ability to effectively coordinate across multiple functions.
Experience Required - 10+ years
Qualifications - B.tech / Masters
Job Responsibilities:
• Coordinate PPAP documents readiness. Ensure all PTRs are a part of this package for transparency with management.
• Team feasibility, capacity reviews & escalation to management for any gaps.
• Obtain customer requirements RFQs RFI (ICY)
• Assisting in estimating new tooling requirements and costs; coordinating tool revisions in relation to product design changes
• Obtain smart sheet training and manage all programs through the same.
• Review requirements with CFT. Assessment of costs, feasibility, CAPEX involved etc.
• Schedule Gate reviews with global management & local CFT
• Biweekly meeting with plant to review action items. Create & maintenance of