Sudesh Sharma
General Manager - Ford Motor Company | Product Development and Lifecycle Management | Alliances and Collaboration | Cost & Quality
- Role
- General Manager Product Development at Ford Motor Company
- Location
- Chennai, TN, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Sudesh Sharma
An accomplished professional with 30 years of multi-national experience in product development, alliances and technical collaboration, cost and quality management. Result oriented and decisive business leader, passionately strive to achieve business goals for enterprise business objectives. Have track record of meeting/exceeding business objectives with “Find A Way” attitude to overcome challenges. Have multi-cultural working experience across the globe - North and South America, Europe, China, Japan and Australia. Acknowledged for recruiting, mentoring leaders for organization evolving needs. One of the core professionals behind successful Ford products - Fiesta, Figo and Ecosport. Multiple products launched from green field sites. Key person leading and scoping the JV with domestic OEM. I excel in piloting sophisticated technology projects, developing product requirements, and analyzing support strategies and processes to facilitate improved operations and efficiency.I have an innate sense of task prioritization, managerial aptitude and result-oriented attitude towards accelerating organizational growth and that too in a high pressured, time-bound and competitive environment.
Experience
General Manager Product Development
Oct 2018 — Present
Lead and collaborate with the cross functional teams including Chief Engineer, Technology teams, Product Planning, Purchase and Manufacturing to develop long term strategic roadmaps for products to meet business objectives. Guide and mentor functional Managers to execute and deliver projects for product evolution. Monitor and improve product field performance to enhance experience across product lines. Lead collaboration with JV to explore win-win products.
Education
Delhi College of Engineering
BE, Mechanical Engineering
Skills
- Team Management
- Kaizen
- Fmea
- Product Development
- Engineering
- Ts16949
- Apqp
- Ppap
- Continuous Improvement
- Automotive
- Team Building
- Management
- Manufacturing
- Vehicles
- Leadership
- Lean Manufacturing
- Six Sigma
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