Position Details: Automotive Analytics Expert - Connected Vehicle Ecosystem

Description:

About Manufacturing Business Group: 
The Manufacturing Business Group of Our Client is responsible for all the business services & solutions in Automotive, Industrial Machinery & Components, Chemical & Process and Aerospace & Defense industrial segments. It’s a profit center with P&L responsibility across the IT & Consulting service lines offered by Our Client. The MISU prides itself as one of the unique industry players offering three dimensional services – across the manufacturing value chain, connecting the board to the shop floor and full technology services play. 

Our Client is a global leader in the Automotive business, having strategic relationships with leading OEMs & Tier 1 firms across the globe. It has a wide portfolio of revenues ranging from consulting & advisory services, digital services, engineering services, enterprise systems, business process & infrastructure services and application management. 

Our Client has also pioneered the concept of Business 4.0TM – the next generation enterprise. Business 4.0 enterprises would like to tailor and mass-customize the Experience they deliver to each stakeholder. They aspire to create exponential Value by leveraging the power of Ecosystems. They embrace Risk, and have a mindset of Abundance.

Business 4.0 TM is founded on technology, leverages the power of data, information and Intelligence to Design and deliver Experiences that are not just functional, but appeal to stakeholder emotions. It is creating innovative business models, and is driven by Agility and Automation at Cloud scale.

The Future Manufacturing Enterprise Team: 
The Future Manufacturing Enterprise Team was carved out as a SWAT group to entrepreneurially seek white space growth opportunities in the Business 4.0 TM ecosystem, drive strategic growth and elevate market positioning for the Business Group. One such strategic area identified is CASE Automotive Business (Connected Autonomous Shared & Electric Automotive Business).

CASE Automotive Business
Connected & Autonomous Cars as this space if often referred to, is one of the most exciting things happening in the industry today, and is seeing the convergence of Technology - software & hardware, IT and Automotive Engineering like never before to create a true Business 4.0 TM ecosystem. The industry value chain itself has expanded much beyond Automotive to cover Technology, Media & Communication, Insurance, Telecom and many others, and has touch points all the way from the Connected Car to the Connected Customer, Connected Home and potentially the Connected Workplace. 
The CASE Auto Business team has chosen five key business focal points or ‘Product Tracks’, which are CASE Auto Academy & Practice, Autonomous Vehicle Development, Vehicle to Ecosystem Services, Fleet Business Services and Electric Vehicle & Battery Systems Business, each under a designated Product Manager.
As part of this strategic entrepreneurial initiative, we are looking for strong business leaders who would like to participate in this journey.
Job Description:   
The Analytics Lead will provide industry leading skills & expertise, business connects and insights for Vehicle to Ecosystem connected vehicle predictive and remote diagnostics solutions or warranty solutions by deploying appropriate strategy and driving growth in line with the company’s expectations. They are expected to establish strategic capability in the area of V2X predictive and remote diagnostics practice. Role may be expected to lead strategic client programs in part or full from time to time. The aspirants must be willing to operate in flat organization structures and across functional teams to leverage the best of capabilities available for a given requirement.

This role will join a team developing the next generation of V2X Connectivity/Vehicle to Ecosystem business solutions drawing on state of the art technologies including big data, mobility, cloud platforms, intelligent analytics and the Internet of Things (IoT), for solving business problems across product design, sales and after sales functions in the automotive industry.

Responsibilities:  
Solutions- Envision and deploy tools / assets / solutions in the area of Vehicle to Ecosystem connected vehicle warranty or predictive and remote diagnostics solutions. Driving Business Growth – Connect with a portfolio of customers to drive revenue growth; participate in response of key RFPs etc. Practice Capability Building – Participate in defining & building industry leading capabilities. Team Building – Attract talent from the market, mentor & coach them.  Work with partners to build scalable solution. Engage in client programs / projects in problem solving. Build solutions to scale as IP assets and work towards monetizing them. Nurture the solutions over the life cycle. Keep the solutions competitive at all times.

Measurement Metrics for the role include: (1) Revenue Generation (2) Assets & Solutions in area of Practice (3) Scale of Team (4) Client Engagements (5) Partner Engagement

Qualifications: 
(1) 12-15 years of automotive industry experience from OEM / Tier 1 with global brands
(2) Hands on experience in warranty or automotive predictive and remote diagnostics domain with global OEM/Tier 1 brands. Experience in telematics, vehicle connectivity, vehicle to consumer, vehicle to infrastructure and/or smart cities analytics.
(3) Has provided leadership to at least one global brand automotive analytics program in either predictive maintenance, remote diagnostics and/or warranty for an extended period of time, with proven excellence in results.
(4) Worked on building assets / solutions in this space 
(5) Demonstrated ability to work with business levels in client organizations
(6) Deep appreciation of technology and analytical tool sets
(7) Highly experienced in use of Telematics, DTC, ECU, sensor, datalogs, streaming, POS, Service data (Warranty Claims, Repair orders), call center, social, customer survey and similar structured and unstructured datasets. Ability to identify innovative analytical scenarios with this dataset.
(8) Minimum 10 years of experience in all of the following: Exploratory data analysis and presenting actionable insights to clients; Data and Dimension reduction, Association, Anomaly detection, Classification, Regression, Simulation, Optimization; Related algorithms such as PCA, K-means clustering, Naïve Bayes, Decision Trees, CT5, Random Forest, Neural Nets, LSTM, SVM, Linear regression, Logistic regression, Monte Carlo, NLP and text mining etc
(9) Experience with analytics and visualization tools such as Alteryx, Tableau, Qlikview, PowerBI
(10) Strong communication/presentation skills and ability to translate business requirements to analytic problem statements
(11) Domain knowledge across all functions in automotive industry, strong expertise in automotive product development domain and/or warranty domain. Excellent understanding of the main automotive subsystem performance and/or warranty processes.
(12) Strong communication skills
(13) Organizational building expertise
(14)  Experience of working with / for major consulting or analyst forums in similar space will be an added advantage 
(15) Bachelor of Science in Mechanical, Electrical or Electronics Engineering; PG degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Physics or Advanced Analytics preferred.

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