Combines strategic partner governance with benchmark-driven delivery intelligence, translating KPI insights and productivity data into actionable steering decisions across the R&D; organization driving measurable productivity gains.

Your role

Key responsibilities in your current role

• Own and continuously enhance the partner governance framework across the R&D; ecosystem, including operating models, engagement cadences, decision-making forums, performance metrics, and escalation mechanisms to drive operational excellence.
• Serve as the senior point of contact for key internal and external partners, ensuring alignment on strategic priorities, deliverables, interdependencies, resource commitments, execution timelines, and capacity planning.
• Lead Monthly and Quarterly Business Reviews (MBRs/QBRs) and governance forums, driving performance transparency, accountability, action closure, and continuous improvement across the partner ecosystem.
• Define, implement, and monitor SLAs, OLAs, partner scorecards,



and benchmark-driven performance frameworks to measure and improve productivity, cycle time, cost, quality, and milestone predictability across R&D; delivery.
• Establish and govern KPI definitions, data standards, reporting processes, and predictive planning dashboards to provide a single source of truth, identify emerging risks, and enable timely corrective actions.
• Drive executive decision-making through actionable performance insights and recommendations, supporting trade-offs across scope, priorities, resourcing, investments, and partner allocation.
• Lead cross-functional operational excellence and productivity initiatives spanning processes, methodologies, tooling, automation, and standardisation, delivering measurable business impact and improved delivery effectiveness.
• Partner with CoC Heads and Finance on budget, headcount, and capacity planning, while proactively managing delivery, quality, compliance, dependency, and ecosystem risks through structured go

📌 Senior Director, R&D Operational Excellence (Bengaluru)
🏢 Infineon Technologies
📍 Bengaluru