David Wing

About David Wing

Senior Operations & Commercialization Executive with more than 20 years of experience in strategic business planning with a global outlook, strengthening commercial relationships to bolster ROS margins while ensuring operational excellence throughout multi-site, cross-functional leadership. Value-oriented change agent leveraging expertise in continuous improvement (CI) and Lean methodologies to accomplish profitable business development enabled by sustainable operations.Areas of Expertise:Strategic Business PlansMulti-Site LeadershipLean Process EngineeringROS Margin GrowthContinuous ImprovementCrisis ManagementP & L ManagementOperational ExcellenceMarket Share Expansion

Experience

1. Vice President, Gm & Ford Customer Business Group

   GKN Automotive

   Jul 2016 — Present · Auburn Hills, MI, US

   Directed GKN Driveline’s commercial interface with GM and Ford globally, in addition to managing all customers in South America, while supporting two separate product streams. • Championed negotiations with GM and Ford globally for long-term supply agreements, commodity cost recoveries, margin progression, and disputes, developing customer strategies that maximized growth.• Promoted operational excellence by negotiating the localization of North American (NA) AWD product to GKN Driveline’s joint venture (JV) partner in China, opening up capacity in NA for higher GM demand while simultaneously cutting freight and inventory costs.• Exited a high volume of low-margin business with Ford to enable more profitable replacement business with other customers, facilitating a significant ROS margin increase in the CVJ and AWD/eDrive product streams due to high-impact, executive decision-making.• Launched multiple new products throughout tenure, continuously optimizing the product portfolio through communization in order to gain the benefits of volume

Education

• Kettering University

  BS Industrial Engineering

• University of Michigan

  Master of Business Administration - MBA

Skills

• Program Management
• Supply Chain Management
• Jit
• Automotive
• Ts16949
• Sales
• Strategic Business Planning
• Business Planning
• Operations Management
• Kaizen
• 5s
• Quality Management
• Manufacturing
• Automation
• Operational Excellence
• Manufacturing Engineering
• Spc
• Manufacturing Operations Management
• Engineering
• Apqp
• Product Development
• Purchasing
• Value Stream Mapping
• Powertrain
• Quality System
• Toyota Production System
• Automotive Engineering
• Process Improvement
• Supply Chain
• Pricing
• Root Cause Analysis
• Product Design
• Six Sigma
• Parts
• Management
• Team Building
• Testing
• Ppap
• New Business Development
• Forecasting