Vinay Pawar

🏭 Pune & Chennai | Technology | Operations | Supply Chain | HR | Finance | Program Management | Quality 🏭 🌟 Seasoned executive driving growth and innovation in the dynamic automotive sector. Leading the Clusters and Cockpit Division with a stellar INR 500+ Crore business across two state-of-the-art plants in Pune and Chennai. 🔑 Key Responsibilities 🔑 📊 P&L Ownership: Orchestrating robust financial performance, ensuring sustained profitability and growth. 🌐 Strategic Vision: Crafting and executing divisional strategies aligned with market trends and business objectives. 👥 Team Leadership: Nurturing high-performance teams across Technology, Operations, Supply Chain, HR, Finance, Program Management, and Quality. 🌍 Global Excellence: Ensuring world-class quality standards, operational efficiency, and innovation in an increasingly competitive landscape. 📈 Business Expansion: Spearheading expansion initiatives, driving market penetration, and building strategic partnerships. 💡 Innovation Champion: Fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement across all functions.

In this role, I built the key mandate to transform Engineering functions into a future ready organization. Hold accountability from RfQ to Product SOP in areas of R&D and Manufacturing Engineering. Strategized to win back lost businesses in CV and 2W segment for Clusters – successful within six months to win back 2 major CV customers and one 2W customer. Interaction with all major OEM’s – M&M, Hero, Bajaj, AL, VECV, Volvo, TML, Yamaha, Piaggio etc. ➟ Championed initiatives in areas of People, Product, and Process to drive organization towards excellence and be Future Ready. ➟ During a very short period, rebuilt confidence of a key OEM on Engineering competency of team resulting in winning a major project order. ➟ Increased profitability and minimized expenses through effective P&L management. ➟ Successfully moved Deep Red projects into Green zone by personally involving and executing game changing actions.

While working in this role, I led green field setup of Spark Minda Technical Centre, persuasively built business case for Connected Mobility and e-Mobility verticals and led the setup of these verticals, and played an active role in transformation of Group’s image from Mechanical to Electronics System supplier. Served as the lead member in evaluation and acquisition of a startup in Connected mobility space. Supervised development teams from Mechanical, Electronics, Software, and System Design and Control. Held ownership for new product development for legacy and non-legacy businesses along with business development and new business acquisitions. ➟ Conceptualized and executed new electronic products in Security Systems, e-Mobility, Shared Mobility, Connected Mobility, Clusters, Body Control domains. ➟ Selected as Best Employee three years in a row, received appreciation from Group CEO for setting up new business initiatives. ➟ Ramped up team to 100+ R&D members and started additional revenue generation for group by foraying into engineering services for JV partners in Europe and NA in areas of AUTOSAR, Cybersecurity and product development ➟ Filed for 8 patents in 2 years in varied products under development. ➟ Rolled out initiatives to improve team competency and streamlined development processes.

Led delivery and program management of multi-million-dollar AUTOSAR improvement strategic partnership program with a Tier 1. Managed team of 150+ Autosar experts delivering best-in-class generic AUTOSAR components - MCAL, BSW, Tools, and Customer specific SDK’s. Supported Sales team as Business SME in the field of ADAS, Powertrain and E/E areas – region Italy. Instrumental in initial setup of KPIT’s new development center at Italy and its delivery and operations. ➟ Handled role of Global Delivery Head for a 15 million Pound ADAS and Chassis Electronics offering to an UK Based OEM and part of JLR organization structure.

I held accountability for business and revenue generation, P&L responsibility for Renewable Energy Business. I was helping in rebuilding relationships with key influencers in the channel and shaping the business strategy and marketing plan. ➟ Successfully championed new product evangelization, contract negotiation, and pricing endeavors. ➟ Played a number of roles spanning product management, major account management, channel and partner management, corporate marketing, and marketing communications. ➟ Leveraged contacts within PE and VC network for funding.

During this tenure, I integrated and ramped up the Business Unit from 5 to 140 members supporting various company locations in one year with 96% deployment efficiency. Successfully managed acquisition and integration of team from another reputed IT company into Continental without affecting quality, employee satisfaction and customer satisfaction. ➟ Nurtured innovation within the team by forming an “Innovation Cell” resulting in 5 patent applications – joint patent application holder in 3 of them. ➟ Received “Automotive Gold Award 2010” within Continental for innovation related to emerging markets. ➟ Instigated Quality improvement measures to constantly improve quality levels year on year by 25% aiming towards zero defects by setting up independent review, improving competencies, and testing effectiveness and workflow tools.

As platform responsible, collaborated with customer teams in managing prestigious projects like development of “TATA- NANO Small Car” engine management system software (from Quotation to Start of Series production). ➟ Built and led the Indian team responsible for developing a new software platform / product line called “Value Motronic” specific for Emerging markets and bringing its pilot customer project (Suzuki) to series production. ➟ Established detailed action plan and attained milestones for technology transfer of two major software platforms from Germany to India tracked directly by the Executive Management Committee at Bosch, Germany.

-> Designed and commissioned the very first installation of Open Control System(based on HP-Unix platform) for ABB at India’s oldest refinery Oil India Ltd. – Duliajan, Assam -> Designed and oversaw installation and commissioning of Distributed Control Systems and programmable logic controllers for the IOCL - Guwahati, Panipat, Reliance – Hazira and Essar Oil Jamnagar