Product Management - Change Manager

Bosch Group•Plymouth Charter Township, MI

About The Position

As a Senior Product Change Manager of Steering Products within Vehicle Motion Division, you will play an important role in driving the success of our North American portfolio. In this role, you will be overall responsible for change management, securing implementation of complex and cost-reduction changes, and actively shaping the product portfolio. You will work closely with cross-functional teams in the U.S., Mexico, and Europe, including our manufacturing plants, to facilitate the implementation of product changes, manage customer implementation scenarios, and accelerate time-to-market, thereby ensuring competitiveness and profitability.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline.
5+ years of professional work experience in automotive industry (i.e. engineering, project management, or similar). Strong change management process background required.
2+ years of full product life cycle experience.
Indefinite U.S. work authorized individuals only. Future sponsorship for work authorization unavailable.
Candidates who have been offered the position must pass both screenings before their start date.

Nice To Haves

Self-driven, high energy and proactive with strong motivational skills who can lead teams toward a common goal.
Individual must have ability to make independent decisions that may be of a complex nature.
Strong organization skills to efficiently manage varying topics with process driven mind-set.
Previous experience leading cross-functional teams with ability to quickly build internal networks.
Strong VM product and product release process know-how from quotation to SOP.
Change management experience from OEM and/or Bosch industrialization view.
Proficient with Microsoft Office, SAP ECM Future or similar change management software.

Responsibilities

Lead Engineering Change Management (ECM) process from centralized customer account view.
Key member of ECM Review Team (RT), steering and consulting side by side with Engineering and Quality Leads.
First level interface/escalation to ECM Steering Committee (Senior Leadership).
Approve Engineering Change Requests (ECRs), Planning and Final Review, as central sales representative.
Actively shape product portfolio via strategic insight into proposed changes and change management process.
Evaluate and define criteria on quality and completeness of the ECR documentation prior to customer communication.
Key interface between change representatives and Customer Team Project Managers (PJMs).
Organize the communication to the affected PJMs and distribute documents for customer communication.
Coordinate documentation of customer requirements, affected Customer PJMs, and provide to change representative.
Support Customer Teams with internal ECR Kick-Off Meetings while ensuring adherence to ECM guidelines.
Increase transparency of ECM by maintaining a comprehensive change overview within ECM RT and reporting across various levels of the organization as needed.
Quarterly review within Sr. Leadership on state of ECM across VM-NA including status of current and new KPI’s.
Define, support, and deploy ECM training across the teams, as necessary.
Share best practices across products and regions, with critical eye to ensure lean and effective ECM within VM-NA.