Gugan Natanasabapathy

• Manage the P0 projects globally for all SENSE sites, with 15 P0 PMs in 9 sites => Successfully managed complex industrial transfers between SENSE sites
• Improve PL profitability through cost reductions - material, direct labor, overhead, transport & logistics, scrap & warranty globally at all SENSE sites with nine P-30 Managers => 33.5 M€ annaulized savings achieved until August for 2025
• Review key productivities at the PL level, and support teams to define the best implementation strategy
• Assess the applicability of ideas transversally at other sites in order to optimize validation and globalize project efforts
• Conduct workshops at the sites and with suppliers to improve the PL savings portfolio. Cost reduction ideas need to include all areas: material, direct labor, packaging, transportation, etc.
• Continuously monitor the top 10 productivities at the sites for the PG, and a global portfolio, identifying the actions that result in savings greater than 50k euros per year
• Prepare and organize the PL P-30 Steering Committee to remove roadblocks on key projects to meet project milestones
• Benchmark the products and best industrial practices permanently, and deploy them to all sites
• Coach and guide the project managers to organize cost-improvement workshops, with a focus on the top worst projects at each site
• Build cost down roadmaps for the key programs at PL/Platform/Site level

• Ensure the project performance objectives for Daimler projects (Quality, Profitability, Deliverables, Timing).
• Ensure coordination to achieve all project launches in compliance with Valeo and customer expectations.
• Develop new business opportunities with customers, and gain profitable order intake.
• Manages a worldwide projects portfolio for Daimler in PL ITC.
• Managed the complex P1 Daimler MRA2 TCM project, coordinating teams globally including 3 launch sites and multiple customer plants until the successful handover to P0 in 2021
• Managed the Strategic RFI/RFQ for VW AR HuD => Lead the team which successfully achieved the first billion € Order Intake for PL ISD

• Successfully managed multiple Daimler TCM projects simultaneously by prioritizing tasks according to urgency, resource availability, and alignment with organizational goals.
• Regained the confidence of the customer, Daimler, for project execution => Lead the team to get the Order Intake of Daimler MRA2 TCM in 2017 (first 3 digit Million € OI)
• Ensure the achievement of the Project KPI in terms of profitability (both product/development vs. Development Activity Payback and Extended Margin), quality, and production preparation.
• Solve all project issues requiring any type of support of all suitable functions via the Project Escalation. Escalate at the right level and with relevant speed/anticipation the gaps versus targets
• Prepare/validate reports on Project development progress to PSC and PMC and to all Governance stages
• Manage customer relationship (local and central) and coordinate communication within his team but also with P2/P1 projects associated
• Ensure management of Escalation

Development of electromechanical switches and control elements for European OEMs

• Complete project responsibility right from the RFQ phase, Industrialization until End-of-Life
• Prepare offers/ negotiate with purchasing to win profitable business
• Coordinate international teams from different worldwide locations.
• Active support for customer specific product management activities – Product Road-Maps, Product Marketing – Tech day organization
• Represent the projects in the technical and management steering committees
• Support the project team in escalation process and problem solving
• Ensure an active and continuous change management process in the project
• Build, maintain and develop customer relationship

Development of exhaust gas after treatment (SCR) systems for Ashok Leyland

• Program/ project responsibility together with sales function incl. reporting, planning and controlling of cost and resources
• Interface to customer in all technical and commercial issues
• Ensure APQP process & standards compliance together with the implementation of the required change requests
• Ensure that the overall technical and commercial targets are achieved
• Represent the company and its products in International trade fairs

Electrical Harness Installation Design for aircraft development at Airbus GmbH

• Lead a design team of 15 – 20 engineers
• Resource management and Workforce planning
• Responsible for deliveries on time and quality
• Trainings for the Onsite and Offshore Teams
• Preparation and presentation of project KPIs to the management

„A scenario analysis of the steel market in India: Formulating a purchasing strategy for a mechanical engineering company”

• Steel supplier identification and evaluation in the Indian market
• Planning, organization and execution of a 3-week supplier visit to India
• Application of Gap-, Risk- , Positioning- and Cost analysis in the supplier evaluation
• Development of a purchasing strategy

Business Development: Gas Vehicle Technology in the Indian Market

• Formulating a business development strategy & plan
• Conception and execution of a comprehensive market analysis
• Planning, organization and execution of a 4-week business development trip to India
• Achieved: 6 potential business proposals including 3 RFQs

Strategy and Planning - India as a Location for Offshore Engineering Services.

• Development of a business model & business plan
• Tracking market trends and competitor strategies
• Development and implementation of business development, human resources, and offshoring strategies; business analysis; evaluation of joint ventures and acquisitions
• Business analysis, evaluation of Joint Ventures & Acquisition

Student Worker – Business Development

• Project: „Internationalization of R&D : Opportunities and Challenges for German SMEs in Engineering Offshoring to India“
• Pre-Sales role in Engineering and Industrial services for automotive and industrial machinery sector in Germany

Internship – Product development

• Project: Airbus A380 Electrical Harness Installation Design