Job Description for Global Product Manager for Advanced Safety and Autonomous Driving (f/m/d)

Moving mobility forward

About the hiring business segment: Advanced Safety & User Experience

Join the team that has made automotive history and brought visionary innovations to the car. As early as 1959, we developed the first cruise control system, followed by many other industry-wide innovations such as the first heads-up display, collision warning system, adaptive cruise control (ACC) and the first emergency braking assistant. These technologies pioneered and launched the mobile future: fully autonomous driving and connected vehicles for the smart world of tomorrow.  

As a leading international supplier for active driver assistance systems (ADAS), Aptiv works in great partnership with almost all car manufacturers. Our sensors, systems and software can already be found in almost all passenger cars today. 

About Aptiv's Product Management Organization

As the leading technology partners and supplier of Advanced Safety and Autonomous Driving, APTIV is delivering best in class products and services. The global Product Management organization ensures that we stay ahead of the competition and expand our market leading offering of innovative and highly competitive products to our customers. As a global organizational function within APTIV ASUX, the Product Management deals with new product development, business justification, planning, verification, forecasting, pricing, product launch, and marketing of a product or products at all stages of the product lifecycle, it integrates people, data, processes and business systems. It provides product information for customer, engineering, marketing and sales and their extended enterprise.

About this opportunity

As the Global Operations Manager of the AS&UX product management organization, you are responsible for the deployment and day to day operations according to the defined best in class way of working. You will coordinate the workload and tasks of all product managers, establish and operate a regular cadence, as well as track and measure the organization in accordance to its success KPIs. You will implement and monitor the operating system (Operationalizing the process) based on defined KPIs for GPL, Engineering and other functions.

Among other things the candidate will:

1.global operation and execution: product management teams operation according to the defined processes, cadence and workflows. You will implement and monitor the operating system (Operationalizing the process) based on defined KPIs for GPL, Engineering and other functions.

2.assistance to global product management: day to day assistance to operate a smooth and lean cadence of the product management team, incl. workshops and internal/external meetings.

3.track and report daily on progress: according to the product management roadmap, dynamic work streams and the defined maturity stages he/she will report the progress being made on the various work products

4.track and report daily on issues: track and share metrics about Issues, daily blocker review and report

5.run a daily product management meeting: working level alignment, senior leadership team alignment

Requiered skills & experiences

• At least 5 years’ experience as team manager, staff manager or relevant management experience

• Analytical and efficient approach while keeping the focus on the set goals

• Proactive, hands-on and creative problem-solving mindset

• Excellent communication skills that are fluent in written and spoken English

• Strong collaborative and cross-functional mindset

• Strong communication and presentation skills – structured and visual 

• Strong handling of Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook) 

• Strong understanding of product management

• Good understanding of Lean practices

• Self-reliant and independent way of working   

• Proven ability to handle multiple priorities in a constantly changing, fast-paced environment with a large and diverse workload

• Understanding of Strategy and Innovation Management

If you have questions or would like to apply please contact Frederick Dohn via phone (+49 (0)202 / 291 - 1632) or email (frederick.dohn@aptiv.com).