Gaurav Kadam
Pune
Summary
PMP ® certified Product planning and development professional having 14 years of successful track record in delivering results with complete ownership and frugal, innovative mindset. Thrives in competitive markets with unsurpassed drive, passion and commitment to exceeding expectations in customer satisfaction
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Deputy General Manager
Tata Motors Ltd
08.2019 - Current
- Leading planning activities for product refreshes, model year and regulatory compliances for existing products.
- Design, plan and Conduct Market research, QFD, Design clinics, Kano analysis and benchmarking to define product positioning and target customers
- Regular competition tracking in terms of new launches, sales figures, price movement. Analyze & review competition data to derive inputs for future intervention planning.
- Drive concept planning through innovations with focus on target customer needs, market trends, regulations and brand identity.
- Configure the car specifications, product attribute leadership strategy (PALS) and features through value laddering tool to meet Business case targets such as Volumes, Pricing, Contribution and Investments
- Plan and conduct Design clinics, market research to tests the car concepts in market with target customers against competition
- Business case preparation and analyze to get program approval ensuring alignment with relevant stakeholders.
- Anticipate and pro-actively resolve program issues to avoid program delays, cost escalations and bottlenecks
- Projects Delivered/ongoing with Key results
- Tata Punch – Successfully delivered micro-SUV resulting into TML Market share increase from 5% to 8% in 2022.
- Altroz & Punch CNG & Model Year 23 intervention - 1st in the industry twin cylinder technology with Sunroof resulting into monthly volumes increase from 12K to 18K
- Punch CAMO and Model year 24 intervention – Platform Contribution margin improvement by 1.4%
- Punch & Altroz Facelift (Model Year 26) – Volume increase by 5% and contribution margin by 0.8~1%
Assistant Manager - Projects
Force Motors Ltd
08.2018 - 08.2019
- Develop Product Strategy for future projects with CFTs.
- Serve as the primary liaison between Operations, Sales and Marketing teams to ensure cohesive and efficient launches
- Plan, Track and report status of variety of projects throughout the product development lifecycle.
- Delivering projects within timeline, scope and budget by continuous engagement with all stakeholders.
Senior Engineer
Mahindra and Mahindra Limited
08.2016 - 04.2018
- Manage concepts and proto builds and ensure these products transition to production with cost, quality and capacity parameters.
- Track and record the deliverables in each gateways from the cross functions ensuring 100% adherence to NPI process
- lead and drive the projects as central function and coordinate marketing, engineering, supply chain etc. functions through gateway process
- Present periodic dashboard reports on the current program, future opportunities and current issues.
Deputy Manager
VE Commercial Vehicles
08.2013 - 10.2015
- Design of Heavy duty chassis frame structures, where weight reduction of 5& achieved
- Vehicle level aggregate packaging & proto build coordination to achieve timeline adherence.
Trainee - Engineer
Tata Technologies Limited
07.2011 - 07.2013
- Engineering Trainee in New Product Development conducting market and competitor analysis/intelligence and benchmarking for the future projects planning.
- Market research-current products perception, new products-trend analysis, competition movements which helped in improving NPS by 20%
- Support Product Attribute Targets (PAT) Preparation and formulating attribute leadership strategy (PALS)
Education
Bachelors of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
Government College of Engineering
Aurangabad07.2011
Skills
- Market research
- Program Management
- Product Lifecycle Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Data analysis
- Product development
- Cross-functional team management
- Strategy
Certification
Project Management Professional - PMP®
Timeline
Deputy General Manager
Tata Motors Ltd
08.2019 - Current
Assistant Manager - Projects
Force Motors Ltd
08.2018 - 08.2019
Senior Engineer
Mahindra and Mahindra Limited
08.2016 - 04.2018
Deputy Manager
VE Commercial Vehicles
08.2013 - 10.2015
Trainee - Engineer
Tata Technologies Limited
07.2011 - 07.2013
Bachelors of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
Government College of Engineering