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.

Local contract terms only