Program Manager RFQ

Job Responsibilities:

Liaise with BD team and internal CFT (R&D, ME, CD, SCM etc.) for costing cycle execution within short span of time to strive for business award.

Participate in kick off meeting arranged by BD team & DR0 meeting planned by R&D team along with CFT in which customer expectation, RFQ targets, customer milestones are set and agreed.

Act as the single point of contact between CFT and BD team.

Coordinate with R&D design team to share the BOM & technical PPT required by CFT for costing, capex, risk identification and investment calculation.

Liaise with CFT for RFQ feasibility- Engineering feasibility, manufacturing feasibility, commercial feasibility.

Coordinate with CFT to get the required inputs like investment, BOP quote, tooling cost required to prepare the cost sheet.

Tooling breakup review and share with BD in customer format.

Prepare the cost sheet and evaluate with benchmarking costing along with CFT.

Propose RMC for analysis and discussion with Finance team based on IRR, NPV calculation at business award stage.

Coordinate and review of costing at each gate exit of program and track its increase and reduction with respect to phase0 and take up with BD team for further negotiation with customer.

Daily tracking of RFQs in departmental tracker.

Driving execution of RFQs through PLM tool. Ensuring Phase-0 project plan is created in PLM and CFT is updating it on regular basis.

Perform Win-Loss analysis for the RFQs handle.

Maintain the central database of customer wise cost compilation to reduce person dependency in execution of priority task.

Gate 0 (Phase-0) closure and handover project to Program Manager.

Check business potential according within core customer and visit customer site as and when required.

Polymer/Metallic:

1.Receipt of Enquiry

• Review inputs from customer and business development for correctness
• Make RFQ response timeline long with RFQ engineer
• Periodic review of RFQ register for timely response of RFQ

2.Enquiry / RFQ study

• Receipt and Study of RFQ inputs (Technical/Commercial) from BD Team
• Study of customer SOR, CSR along with quote CFT
• Team feasibility study and business risk assessment for ok to quote

3.Enquiry / RFQ Floating to CFT Teams

• Review make or buy item requirements
• Finalize list of potential suppliers for the each BOM item
• Conduct cross functional RFQ review meetings
• Visit potential suppliers for evaluation of new RFQ requirements

4.Review of costing inputs received from CFT Teams

• Preparation and Finalization of tooling specification for enquiry
• Cross check and finalization of mold costing after receiving from tool room / suppliers
• Along with SCM initial tooling cost negotiation with potential suppliers based on targets from customers
• Finalization of FTG requirement along with ME / plant and review as per manufacturing process flow
• Review of DVP cost with R&D development Quality

5.BOM Preparation and submission to BD

• Finalization of the costing BOM matrix based on CFT teams inputs
• Cross check and Finalization of buy items and decide strategy for outsourcing activity along with SCM
• Finalization of costing BOM along with finance for all costing input requirements and submission to BD

6.Participation in Business negotiation and acquisition

• Visit customer along with BD for commercial negotiation and proving the cost along with required break ups.
• Finalization technical requirements based on received target costs
• Work along with BD and finance for business finalization by necessary inputs
• Conducting meeting with CFT teams and collection of cost inputs

7.Gate 0 Closer and handover project inputs to Program Manager

• Lead gate 0 kickoff meeting
• signing gate 0 document and handover project to project manager
• Make phase wise planning based on project requirements
• Auditing toolmaker and toolmaker finalization along with SCM No changes in JD, will as per standard UJR and as per JD available in career GPS