Project Manager Customer Team

Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG in Pune, India, seeks an experienced Project Manager specializing in seat structures and mechanisms to lead cross‑functional teams and ensure successful, on‑time project launches.

You will manage contracts, budgets, and main schedules, drive project gates, and maintain profitability in a permanent, full‑time role. Collaboration with sales, engineering, and procurement is essential for success.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in automobile industry.
• Project manager with focus on seat structures and mechanisms.
• Highly structured and detail‑oriented; self‑driven and responsible.
• Systematic, engineer‑like approach to tasks.
• Able to assert oneself, with creativity.
• Proactive in identifying and addressing weak points.

Responsibilities

• Performing the contract review in cooperation with all relevant functions
• Plan, invite and conduct project kick‑off and product workshops
• Coordinate, create, permanently maintain and communicate the main schedule according to the customer schedule
• Preparation of Project Gate Reports per Brose Product development process with the project team
• Ensure core team members take responsibility for technical aspects, escalating if necessary
• Maintain project profitability set by project committee
• Keep project budgets within approved limits
• Meet agreed customer project launch timelines; drive internal cross‑functional teams to timelines
• Coordinate engineering changes with sales and provide commercial data for customer recoveries
• Support sales for price increases due to material price changes, ECNs, volume changes
• Report project status to management & Project gate committee

Skills

8+ years in automobile industry

Project manager background in seat

Structured & detail‑oriented

Self-dependent and responsible

Systematic, engineer‑like approach

Creativity and assertiveness

Weak points discovery

Job description

Change perspective. Shape the future.

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Your Tasks

• Performing the contract review in cooperation with all relevant functions
• Plan, invite and conduct project kick-off and product workshops
• Coordinate, create, permanently maintain and communicate the main schedule according to the customer schedule
• Preparation and preparation of Project Gate Reports according to Brose Product development process (main schedule) together with the project team
• Ensuring that the respective core team member takes responsibility for the technical aspects (if necessary, by escalation), especially in the Project Gate
• Maintain project profitability set by project committee
• Responsible for keeping project budgets within business case approved limits
• Responsible to meet agreed customer project launch timeline. Drive internal cross functional teams to meet customer timelines
• Co-ordinate engineering changes with sales and provide commercial facts for customer recoveries
• Support sales in case of price increases demand due to various factors like material price change, customer ECNs, volume drop,..etc
• Reporting of project status to management & Project gate committee

Your Profile

• 8+ years in automobile industry.
• Project manager background in seat structures and mechanisms
• Highly Structured & Detail‑Oriented
• Self-dependent and responsible behavior
• Systematic, engineer-like course of action
• Ability to assert oneself, creativity
• Foresighted discovery of weak points

We offer you a modern working environment with our Brose working world

• Department: IN/SP1
• Location: Pune
• Job Start Date: 06/08/2026
• Job Type: Permanent
• Temporary: Full-time