Role & responsibilities

1. Program Risk & Health Management

- Identify, assess and forecast program and engineering risks across vehicle development programs.
- Synthesise inputs from multiple functions to identify the few critical risks requiring leadership intervention.
- Drive risk prioritisation, mitigation and closure with respective program/function owners.
- Establish and monitor program health indicators and risk dashboards.

2. Leadership Reviews & Strategic Insights

- Prepare leadership-level reviews for the President / senior management, converting detailed program inputs into concise insights, decisions and actions.
- Independently deep-dive into complex topics and develop fact-based recommendations.
- Connect information across programs/functions to identify systemic issues, trends and opportunities for horizontal deployment.

3. Cross-functional Execution

- Work closely with Product Development, Engineering COEs, Product Planning, Procurement, Manufacturing, Finance and other stakeholders.




- Drive structured problem-solving on cross-functional issues.
- Follow through on agreed actions and ensure timely closure

Preferred candidate profile

- Minimum of 2-4 years of experience in the automotive sector in the realm of risk management, preferably in recent product development, Manufacturing or Automotive Strategy / Planning.
- Experience can be Pre/ Post MBA.
- Full time MBA/ PGDM from a premier B-School (IIMs, ISB, XLRI, SPJIMR, FMS, IIT, and other equivalent etc)
- BE/ B Tech in engineering from reputed institution (TIER-1).
- Candidate without prior Automotive /Mechanical industry experience will not be considered.
- Preferred combination of experience: Engineering + MBA assignments specialization in Planning, Operations, Finance, General management, EAs to P&L; Owners or related disciplines.

📌 Strategic Risk Management || Automotive/ Farm Division|| South India (Chennai)
🏢 Symbiosis Management Consultants
📍 Chennai