Job Description

Role: Electronics COE India Chapter Leader
Why: At Schneider Electric we believe in a world "more electric and more digital". Part of our Energy Management Strategy, Electricity 4.0, is to create a unique position to help our customers achieve their energy and sustainability goals. We aim to support them in the digitization of their operations. Digitization cannot be achieved without driving a shift towards more electronics into our systems/products/offers. The electronics market has been evolving fast in the last decades with strong technology shifts and upgrades. Schneider Electric is taking a step forward to adapt to this market evolution at the right speed. An electronics transformation is on the way with several critical changes operated:

• Simplification/rationalization and platforming of our electronics usage

• Leverage of the best technologies (right tradeoff between up-to-date technos and needs)

• Acceleration of our electronics architecture redesigns

• Leverage selected strategic partners and managed properly our technological relationship with them

A decision to review the tradeoff between centralization/decentralization of some decisions making on electronics has been made: the electronics CoE , a transverse organization across EM Divisions, has been created to respond to this need.
What: The role is responsible for managing the Electronics CoE Chapter in India (~25permanent contracts). The organization is part of :

• Electronics CoE, a multinational set up spread across geographies: India, USA, China and France.

• CTO Office India, a regional organisation aiming at enabling the development of Energy Management divisions through expertise & innovation.

Key missions:
People Management:

• Identify chapter skill evolutions based on chapter strategy and roadmap, build and implement competency plans, upskill chapter members (and those in an acting role), build functional expertise in Electronics

• Experiment with new learning; exhibit curiosity and challenge ideas, identify & foster opportunities for skill development (e.g., trainings, courses...)

• Create an environment that allows the chapter members to thrive

• Develop the chapter members on skills mastery

• Build effective and diverse chapter membership

• Manage staffing and attrition risks

Projects execution (for Divisions & internal Projects)

• Ensure Electronics CoE project roadmap is executed properly (quality of deliverables/planning, etc...) It includes projects driven for Divisions and Internal Projects.

• Elevate agile mindset and ensure deployment within Electronics CoE India Chapter

• Manage Electronics CoE India Chapter budget in alignment with Electronics CoE VP

India support

• Ensure the right connections with India Electronics engineering managers across EM to identify needs for competencies in a proactive way

• Understand the Business roadmaps for India

• Ensure teams are customer focused with the right business acumen

• Manage and monitor the tradeoff of collaborators implication between competency development, LoB support, electronics CoE projects, etc....

Skills:

• Strong technical depth in electronics engineering, embedded systems is a must

• Good ability to understand use cases in electronics: diversity across Energy Management divisions, commonalities, opportunities for new technologies usage/introduction

• Ability to navigate into complex matrix environment

• Ability to align stakeholders, collaborate to deliver results

• Influence and convince skills, Listening ability

• Ability to engage with suppliers and industry players

• Multitask : ability to manage multiple topics in parallel

• Tech culture mindset

• Good social skills and empathy

Qualifications:

• Electronics/Electrical master's degree mandatory

• 8+ years' experience in electronics engineering

• Team management experience and transverse management experience

• Experience in coaching and mentoring, and successfully building and leading teams in a matrix environment.

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