Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation (MFTBC) is an integral part of Daimler Trucks, leading global vehicle manufacturer and one of the world’s biggest manufacturers of commercial vehicles. With our FUSO brand, we make up approximately 40% of the Daimler Trucks sales volume with a presence in more than 170 markets worldwide. Since our first bus, we have aspired to bring society and our customers the highest quality of products and services.
 
By Combining Japanese tradition and the global power of Daimler, Mitsubishi Fuso provides unparalleled experience in a world leading company. This means that you will associate with global business partners every single day.
 
 
Description of Lifecycle Management


What links development, production, market, and customer functions? The Lifecycle Management (LCM) Department. We're creating ONE company flow by steering projects hand-in-hand with teams throughout the organization from the initial project idea to project realization and through to final production.
LCM is involved in the product strategy, Business Strategy, Connectivity and e-Mobility. These functions are composed of 8 departments (6 in Japan, 2 in India) with a headcount of ca. 160 people.
Welcome to DTA Lifecycle Management Department
 
Your opportunity 


As society around the world is transforming due to mega trends like digitalization, electrification and autonomous driving, as almost all commercial vehicle manufactures, Daimler Trucks Asia is facing unknown challenges. DTA aims to be the frontrunner in the development and implementation of these technologies.
 
DTA’s Connectivity department is an integral strategic enabler supporting DTA’s future targets. In order to achieve these targets our team turns vehicles into digital assets and enables or fully develops value-added services for our customers. We are therefore pushing towards a digitalized future for our customers’ industries. Working together with a team from all over the world that specializes in various fields such as Business Development, Engineering, IT and Logistics, we are looking forward to welcome you in our team. You will work with the latest technologies to help our customers increase efficiency and improve their operations. Today’s product portfolio already includes several services like “Truckonnect” and the remote vehicle diagnostic solution “Telediagnostics”. In addition, we provide the technical foundation for other departments like Quality Management to achieve their vision.
 
We are looking for you as our lead for the “Technical/IT” team, which covers design, specification, development and implementation of Software including the maintenance and further development of our End2End infrastructure including Backend and Frontend of Truckonnect. As a leader you define the development of the technical strategy and define the necessary roles & skillset of our growing team. If you are looking to make an impact on the future of transportation, Daimler Trucks Asia is the place for you!


Job Description

Manage the team:
- Set up and develop the team

- Direct and manage the team

- Guide to the team members and monitor progress to ensure that output/deliverables are aligned and enable the overall strategy and requirements of the Connectivity department

- Plan and control headcount and budget

- Set targets and control achievement, ensure that agreed goals agreed are accomplished

- Monitor and improve processes


Lead the team:
- Lead, motivate and promote the assigned employees on the basis of the model by means of target agreements and performance evaluations formally and informally

- Ensure team members are engaged and motivated in a complex and time pressured environment with moving targets

- Create an environment where team members are able to think out of the box, identify innovative solutions while ensuring committed deadlines are met in time, cost & quality

- Assure a target-oriented internal communication

- Assure an employee and task-related qualification

- Guarantee the compliance of all group and location orientated policies (safety and environmental protection regulations, working time order, integrity code, guidelines etc.) according to current regulations/documents. Brief or instruct all assigned employees about the corresponding regulations. Observe or check the correct realization.


Look ahead:
- Identify innovative solutions to enable Connectivity. Lead and guide the team to:

- translate functional requirements from internal and external stakeholders into technical requirements

- identify and assess potential options that meet the requirements

- support management in decision making considering several aspects like cost, functionalities, innovation, timely readiness, etc.

- stay up to date on current and future developments and technological advances that could be of use to generate a competitive advantage for the Connectivity customer offering


Design and Specify: 


- Lead and guide the team to:

- identify a best-fit design considering several complex technical and functional requirements, several vehicle platforms and various stakeholders

- specify and design the hardware components (including the software components that run on the firmware) from an end-to-end perspective

- design innovative and new solutions that generate a competitive advantage for the overall Connectivity customer offering


Develop and implement the technical solutions.
Lead and guide the team to:
- Develop and implement the hardware components and required technical solutions inhouse and in collaboration with suppliers

- Monitor the development/implementation process (in-house/suppliers) to ensure components are available with the right functionalities, at minimum cost and within timelines

- Ensure hardware solutions are implemented smoothly into the vehicles