Akash Vashistha

1.Creates and manages the new product development pipeline portfolio, to ensure successive annual roll-outs of value-added profitable products.
2. Collaborates cross-functionally to drive the Customer to Concept process to bring new products to market.
3. Identifies marketing opportunities by analyzing and defining the total market, market share, competitor market share, and available market share by product market.
4. Provides leadership and support for the design, development, refinement, and implementation of products by initiating research to identify consumer needs; develop new products to meet consumer needs; research consumer acceptance of products; work with manufacturing to identify packaging improvements, identify co-pack opportunities; develop introductory market programs to introduce new products; and lead status meetings to drive programs or new product initiatives to market. Periodically presents project updates to the leadership team.
5. Develop, maintain and update new product development “Concept to Customer” process to ensure a group of new concepts/products are available to be introduced and commercialized on an annual basis to include:
o Ideation Capture
o Funnel to Focus
o Stage Gate Management
o Performance Evaluation

• Documented user stories, specifications and product features into detailed work order to communicate across teams and build mandatory requirements.
• Plan and establish sequence of operations from product ideation with iterative approach to product delivery and devising end to end Go To Market product strategy.
• Overseas experience in China for purchase & vendor development and had training for lithium ion battery fabrication for EVs and AGVs.
• Managing strategic sourcing cycle, market research, collecting user feedback and other relevant informations needed for product development.
• Leading technical team for development of software and hardware for EVs & AGVs projects for smart lithium ion battery packs for clients like Hero Moto Corp., Minda Silca, General Motors, Hi-tech Robotic systemz with IoT and web based tracking applications
• Review production schedules, engineering specifications and cross functional execution of the product roadmap
• Coordinate & implement quality control objectives, activities, or procedures to resolve production problems, maximise product reliability & minimize costs.
• Confer with clients, vendors, staff, management personnel regarding purchases, product and product specifications, manufacturing capabilities or project status.
• Established criteria for each milestone within product roadmap as means to measure developmental progress.

• Determining root cause of failures using statistical methods and recommend changes in parts/product design, tolerances or processing methods
• New Product Implementation for new models associated with OPPO and
• OnePlus with cross-functional teams
• Apply continuous improvement methods such as lean manufacturing to enhance manufacturing quality, reliability, or cost-effectiveness
• Designing process flow for performing various rework and reflow to be carried out
• Defect analysis for the laboratory test failures
• Prepare documentation for new manufacturing processes or engineering procedures.