Product Lead - Transmissions and Drivelines

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Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

Ricardo Automotive and Industrial (A&I), a member of WSP, and global engineering services partner for clean and efficient integrated propulsion and energy systems. Our experience and history of more than 100 years at the forefront of transport & energy innovation, enables us to deliver solutions to the most complex challenges, allowing our customers across all global transport & energy sectors to achieve a sustainable zero‑carbon future.

We provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading‑edge and innovative cross‑sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

Delivering technology and engineering services across transport, energy, and industrial sectors to support clients in developing new technology and products. This includes a wide range of propulsion technologies that address key market challenges in the automotive, commercial vehicles, off highway, marine and aerospace sectors. When combined with the industrialization and manufacturing capability within the Ricardo Manufacturing team, this creates a unique end‑to‑end capability to help clients bring new solutions to market.

The Product Lead - Transmissions & Driveline position will focus on shaping the product portfolio of technical services and solutions and expand business by effectively growing key customer accounts through win strategy and project directorship. To cultivate and grow this end‑to‑end capability, we are seeking a technically strong and entrepreneurial leader to continue growth of our Transmission and Driveline products and services within the Engineering group.

Additionally, this role will lead the development and delivery of core services and IP that strengthen the technical offerings. In this role, you will be supporting clients and business development by matching key engineering services and ever expanding our technical prowess and enabling technologies to support and grow our business within Transmissions and Drivelines

As the Automotive and Industrial landscape undergoes rapid transformation, the key to growth lies in our ability to provide enabling technical insights and services into expanding and emerging markets such as Aerospace, Defense, as well as automotive and industrial markets. This role will help lead that effort, building the internal capability to deliver technical value at scale, supporting business growth, and positioning the technology at the forefront of technical consulting.

This role will be within the Hybrids and Drivelines (HYDL) Growth Solution (GS) team, where there is strong demand for expanding product and service growth and strong Project Directorship focused on expanding key accounts with responsibilities including but not limited to:

• Partner with Business Development (BD) to form a compelling win strategy to secure key projects.
• Manage internal and external stakeholders to ensure the customer need is properly identified, articulated and addressed with maximum value proposition.
• Work with internal engineering and capability to match product and service definition to the customer need.
• Direct proposal creation, working with engineering and capability leaders to ensure the Win Strategy is strongly articulated within the proposal.
• Ensure Budget targets and scope are set and met within each proposal.

• After winning key projects, supporting execution and account growth in the Project Director role to expand the business by identifying future work through expansion of the project or further supporting development the customer’s portfolio thereby securing future business for Ricardo.
• Thought leadership is key for bringing customer insights that can support the customer’s roadmap and lead to future business to expand their product line.
• Strategic and proactive external and…