Acquisition & Project Manager- Power Electronics

Bosch Group•Farmington Hills, MI

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About The Position

This role works in the electrification field and is responsible for acquiring customers for power-electronics projects for electrified vehicles. Responsibilities begin with defining and engaging in the preselling strategy. The position is technically responsible for customer acquisitions throughout the Americas and leads a cross-functional global project team spanning system, hardware, mechanics, software, application, purchasing, and plant functions. It serves as a central interface across involved functions and customer teams, fostering effective cooperation and solution-oriented, partnership-based collaboration. The role works with commercial teams to define and align pricing strategies. The manager identifies acquisition-specific customer trends and requirements, market activity, and competitor information in collaboration with customer teams and key accounts. The position pursues acquisition targets and communicates local market requirements to the organization to support sustainable alignment of technical product concepts. After an acquisition is won, the manager guides the project through development with the local engineering team, the global development network, and related purchasing, industrialization, plant, and quality functions.

Requirements

Completed university degree at the Master's, Diploma, or PhD level in electrical engineering, mechatronics, mechanical engineering, or a comparable field.
At least 7 years of experience in vehicle electrics/electronics.
Experience managing product development projects and project management.
Software and hardware knowledge.
Experience cooperating in international teams.
Communicative, assertive, resilient, creative, and a team player.
Proactive, independent, committed, responsible, systematic, solution-oriented, and goal-oriented working style.

Nice To Haves

German language skills are helpful.

Responsibilities

Define and engage in the preselling strategy for power-electronics projects for electrified vehicles.
Lead customer acquisitions across the Americas and take technical responsibility for those acquisitions.
Lead cross-functional global project teams involving system, hardware, mechanics, software, application, purchasing, and plant functions.
Coordinate with customer teams and internal functions, optimize cooperation and processes, and promote solution-oriented, partnership-based collaboration.
Define and align pricing strategies in conjunction with commercial teams.
Identify customer trends and requirements, market activity, and competitor information with customer teams and key accounts.
Pursue acquisition targets and communicate local market requirements to support sustainable alignment of technical product concepts.
Guide won projects through development in collaboration with local engineering, the global development network, purchasing, industrialization, plants, and quality.