Durability Manager - Business Unit Mexico

The company is looking for an experienced Durability Manager to join our team in Puebla Mexico.

Main duties:

Main tasks related to the Management of DUR department in IDIADA MX Office:

• General management
  • Take responsibility over all the activities (technical and nontechnical) performed by DUR team
  • Keep constant communication paths between Mexico and HQ to discuss BOs quotations and projects
  • Periodically report department status to the US director in USA and to the Head of Durability in HQ
• Business development
  • Perform commercial actions
    • Cooperate with KAMs to detect BOs
    • Visit customers
    • Attend customer workshops and sales meetings
    • Prepare commercial materials (presentations leaflets videos )
  • Generate development plans for short mid and longterm scenarios
    • Analysis of product portfolio; strengths and weaknesses
    • Forecast future needs
  • Perform analysis of investments for new equipment/facilities
  • Expand suppliers network and forge cooperation
• Intelligence
  • Analysis of the market trends
  • Monitor competitors in Mexico: capabilities prices
  • Attend congresses and fairs
• Financial management
  • Issue monthly shipments
  • Monitor department expenses profit and margin
  • Scale down to project figures to understand results
  • Follow up WIP and DSO figures
  • Manage invoices payments and overdues
  • Provide financial figures and forecasts to the US director and to the Head of Durability in HQ
• HHRR
  • Develop team technical capability
  • Empower employees to grow within the department/company
  • Motivate the team to achieve job satisfaction and commitment.
  • Define training plans for the employees
  • Analyze and forecast manpower future needs
  • Manage new employees requests defining main duties and requirements
  • Interview candidates to become new employees and take decisions for hiring
• OHS
  • Make sure all employees are properly trained to understand the risks of the activities they are performing
  • Make sure all employees are following all IDIADA internal rules for OHS
  • Provide the team will all necessary equipment to perform the requested activities
• Quality
  • Guarantee all activities are performed according to quality standard defined by the company
  • Monitor quality indexes (KPI) customer surveys and complaints
  • Manage nonconformities
  • Raise and manage Improvement Opportunities
• Innovation
  • Think out of the box to provide innovative solutions to our customers
  • Create IDEADAS for innovative products to be developed
  • Forge relationships with institutes and universities
• Project management
  • Prepare quotations forecasting revenue cost profit and margin for the project
  • Handle the quotation process and acceptance process through DIANA
  • Manage the project through PAMPOL
  • Periodically monitor the project figures to understand deviations

Qualifications :

Specific requirements

• More than 10 years of experience on DUR testing and development
• Bachelors or Masters Degree in Engineering
• Previous experience in complete development projects for OEMs is an asset
• Strong knowledge on testing validation activities and execution
• High technical Durability background
• Knowledge on charging systems & in New Energy Vehicles is an asset
• Strong experience with test equipment/data logging ETAS INCA IPETRONIK
• Advanced user level of data processing applications: NI DIADEM
• Strong skills on Microsoft computer applications: Word Excel Powerpoint .

General requirements

• Leadership proactiveness and client orientation
• Previous experience living and working abroad is recommended
• With demonstrated adaptability to new environments and capability to properly manage cultural difference
• Prepared to work in a dynamic international and multicultural environment.
• With skills for taking independent initiative and exhibiting creative problemsolving
• Ability to communicate thoughts and technical ideas in an accessible way
• Previous experience managing technicallyadvanced requests from customers
• With a high sense of responsibility and risk management
• With eagerness to learn while training other employees from the department
• With excellent teamwork attitude
• Open to travel intensively around Mexico and to other countries if it is necessary
• With commercial skills to clearly explain department capabilities and emphasize with customers needs
• Fluent English and Spanish

Additional Information :

Applus IDIADA is committed to equality  diversity and inclusion. We dont put limits on you so dont put limits on yourself either. There is a place for everyone.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime