Digital Product Manager
Exide Industries Limited
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Product Manager – Industry 4.0
This role will be uniquely positioned to work collaboratively with executive leadership, business and IT,and third-party vendors to establish a cohesive strategy and lead teams through a digital transformation of business processes and technical capabilities in Digital Factory & Industry 4.0 Initiatives.
Location : Kolkata/Mumbai/Pune/Bangalore
Role Description
- Drive growth and enable differentiating manufacturing capabilities as competitive advantage through innovative technology solutions.
- Complete ownership of the new digital initiatives in Manufacturing which encompass Energy Management, Plant Maintenance, Quality Management, MES, Warehouse Management,OEE,Labour Productivity,Safety, Traceability,etc.
- Experience of end-to-end digitisation of Product Life Cycle Mgmt (PLM) process for introducing a new product right from conceptualization, setting up RFQ process flow, Cost estimation, APQP, E-BOM, M-BOM, SAP Integration, etc.
- Creating business requirement documents for new platforms like IIOT, Manufacturing Analytics, IT/OT Integration, MES,vision systems,etc.
- Selecting right vendor partner for the end to end digital transformation and working hand in hand to plan out the entire transformation plan.
- Collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure digital vision and driving alignment and progress
- Design,pilot, implementation and maintenance of platforms; facilitating release planning with stakeholders as well as weekly demos
- Building the team as needed to successfully implement the digital vision
Expertise
- BE/B.Tech in Computer Science or Control Systems Engineer and around 5 years experience in manufacturing industry
- Strong experience in the use of the internet of things, data analytics and industry 4.0 technologies.
- Expertise in improving productivity, quality and cost reduction in manufacturing operations
- Engineering knowledge & skills in PLC, SCADA and Controls logic and Robotic programing is desirable
- Strong Problem Solving skills. Experience in working with cross-functional teams from tech, design, and business