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POSITION SUMMARY & JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
To develop and refine strategies that drive business expansion into competitive markets, ensure sustained revenue and profit growth during economic challenges, and support overall corporate decision-making to achieve organizational objectives
Key Responsibilities:
- Variance analysis of OB vs PY vs Last budget (Power BI Dashboard).
- Financial reconciliation with OEMs/open invoices closure/GST matter.
- Facilitating price negotiations like inflation/EPR recovery etc.
- Facilitating planning and execution of the annual operating plan for business units & functions that address corporate strategic imperatives.
- Understanding the business needs and identifying initiatives that will allow a business to meet those strategic goals.
- Support in forecasting monthly/annual sales and revenue targets & driving initiatives to achieve business goals.
- Ensure that profitability targets are met and support the solutions for operational issues that may impact revenue and profit.
- Price provisioning report to finance on monthly basis.
- Tracking of RMI through Crisil report and drafting letter for submission to OEM.
- Competitor analysis (Supply/Pricing) to support in implementation of the strategy.
Key Areas:
- On-time and accurate submission of Reports
- On-time submission of the variance analysis of OB vs PY vs Last budget (Power BI Dashboard)
- Ensure that profitability targets are met.
- Facilitating price negotiations like inflation/EPR recovery etc.
Global/ Region/ Local Initiatives
Participate in Regional / Global conferences, Supply Chain Conferences, Collaborate with VP BSAPIC for improving the efficiency & synergy in BSID LSCM operations. Contribution by driving the global projects.
- Prepare and submit reporting requirements and needs when required
Transversal Responsibility
- All business decisions and actions must serve and be in line with the Group’s Essence, E8 corporate commitment, principles & values, TRACE, and our way to serve the community
- Partnering with Business & Functional Leaders to champion, communicate, inculcate, drive, promote and live Bridgestone’s Essence, E8 and TRACE principles & values
- Fostering and promoting diversity i.e. gender-, generational, cultural, nationality-diversity in all aspects
JOB REQUIREMENTS
- Educational Background: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, or a related field; MBA preferred.
- Experience: 5+ years in business planning, forecasting, or financial analysis, preferably in the automotive or manufacturing sector.
- Technical Skills: Proficiency in Excel, SAP, Power BI, or similar tools for data analysis and forecasting.
- Business Acumen: Strong understanding of strategic business needs, sales forecasting, and profitability management.
- Industry Knowledge: Familiarity with industry research agencies (SIAM, FADA, Crisil, IHS) and experience working with OEMs and handling RMI reports.
- Budgeting & Forecasting: Expertise in expense budget preparation, control, and driving initiatives to meet revenue and profitability targets.
- Communication & Coordination: Excellent communication skills to collaborate with internal teams and external stakeholders.
- Problem-Solving & Time Management: Strong problem-solving ability with a track record of managing multiple projects and deadlines effectively.
Bridgestone’s Global Leadership Capabilities
- Establishes strategic direction and effectively communicates the vision: Communicates a clear and inspiring vision for the business; drives competitive and innovative strategies and is able to generate alignment against the strategic direction.
- Demonstrates business acumen to achieve results through others: Understands, educates and applies the fundamental business concepts by which a company operates in order to deliver results and create a climate that fosters personal commitment to excellence.
- Promote and enhance company culture: Champions the organization’s shared values and beliefs.
- Effectively manages across cultures: Achieves effective collaboration, alignment, and communication across multiple dimensions of cultural diversity.
- Boss (Customer) focused – serves the customers having the end user in mind: Makes BOSS (end users) and their needs a primary focus of one’s actions; develops and sustains productive relationships with BOSS; leverages BOSS intimacy in the development of new products, services and competitive advantage.
- Demonstrates self-awareness and emotional intelligence: Recognizes one’s personal strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and limits. Understands emotions and their effects.
- Intellectually curious in support of learning agility: Actively identifies new areas for learning; regularly creates and takes advantage of learning opportunities; uses newly gained knowledge and skill on the job and learns through their application.
- Embraces and leads change and innovation: Encourages different and innovative approaches to address problems and opportunities; facilitates the implementation and acceptance of change within the organization.
- Identifies and develops organisational talent: Attracts high calibre diverse talent, leads and guides others to accomplish organizational goals and objectives through on‐going development and collaboration.
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Understanding that Serving Society with Superior Quality is our heritage and our mission, and embracing our responsibility to future generations as a global leader in our industries, Bridgestone and its teammates around the world employ innovation and technology to improve the way people move, live, work and play.
