Anton Zhelo
Global Product Manager
Aschaffenburg
Summary
Product Managment Leader with 15 years of Automotive HMI experience | Engineering Management | Innovation | Product Planning
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
3
3
Languages
Work History
Global Product Manager Low Voltage Wiring Harness
Leoni Wiring Systems
10.2023 - Current
- Identified strategic opportunities through data-driven decision-making processes. Articulating them on management board level.
- Conducted competitive analysis of vertical integration and analyzing strategic partnerships to identify emerging opportunities for growth.
Global Product Manager HMI & Complex switches
BCS Automotive Interface Solutions
12.2016 - 09.2023
- Development of short-, medium- and long-term product and technology strategies in area of Human Machine Interface
- Identifying product and technology innovations, and initiating corresponding advance engineering activities
- Defining product price policy, forward product costing
- Leading global cross-functional team dedicated to strategic business acquisitions, developing competitive technical and cost solutions
- Regular customer communication within advance – and application engineering, purchasing domains on management level
- Overview of product benchmarks (process, raw, material, technologies)
- Providing up-to-date market analyses, competitive situation and trends for relevant HMI applications
- Building, consolidating and maintaining cross-disciplinary product-related knowledge (costs, profitability, technology, benchmarking records, etc.) and related tools (e.g
- Forward costing, financial KPIs database, component cost database).
R&D Manager Mechanical HMI & Switches
Leopold Kostal Group
07.2014 - 12.2016
- Managed team of 30 mechanical engineers (6 design teams) across 2 engineering facilities
- Planned department's budget and investments
- Planned engineering resource in long –mid – and short term perspectives
- Defined strategic goals, roadmaps, role models in alignment with CEO
- Established second engineering location within R&D organization.
Team Leader Design Mechanics Switches & Switch Panels
Leopold Kostal GmbH & Co. KG
01.2011 - 07.2014
- Mentored junior staff members, helping them develop their leadership potential and advance in their careers.
- Enhanced team productivity by implementing efficient work processes and regularly reviewing performance metrics.
- Set performance expectations for team, monitoring progress towards goals and providing constructive feedback as needed.
- Created and managed project plans, timelines and budgets.
- Evaluated team member performance against established objectives during regular reviews, offering praise for achievements or identifying areas requiring further development.
Design Engineer Mechanics Switches & Switch Panels
Leopold Kostal GmbH & Co. KG
09.2007 - 07.2011
Education
Master of Science -
National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute"
Kyiv, Ukraine 01.2002 - 2008.01
Skills
Product Strategy
Competitive Analysis
Pricing strategy
Product positioning
Market and Technological trends
Definition of Future products and their enhancements
Technical Product Knowledge
Strategic and analytical thinking
Data-driven decision-making
Business process improvement
Customer Empathy and effective storytelling
Timeline
Global Product Manager Low Voltage Wiring Harness
Leoni Wiring Systems
10.2023 - Current
Global Product Manager HMI & Complex switches
BCS Automotive Interface Solutions
12.2016 - 09.2023
R&D Manager Mechanical HMI & Switches
Leopold Kostal Group
07.2014 - 12.2016
Team Leader Design Mechanics Switches & Switch Panels
Leopold Kostal GmbH & Co. KG
01.2011 - 07.2014
Design Engineer Mechanics Switches & Switch Panels
Leopold Kostal GmbH & Co. KG
09.2007 - 07.2011
Master of Science -
National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute"
01.2002 - 2008.01
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