René Ibald

• • Led 5+ global engineering programs serving international OEM customers, with full ownership of resources, cost, timing, and quality in agile and waterfall project management

• • Implemented KPIs tracking across engineering programs and teams, ensuring adherence to timing, quality, and design targets

• • Stakeholder-management and project management including program prioritization

• • Problem Solving Lead with delivered ICA and PCA milestones on schedule in 3+ projects

• • Drove product improvements through quality reviews and manufacturing feasibility assessments for overall business development

• • Represented R&D leadership in executive communication internally and externally

• • Managed globally distributed teams while acting as technical bridge between European R&D and Chinese manufacturing in technical topics and consulting for 2 product groups in project management

• • Leadership and mentoring in process audits and problem-solving task forces, mentoring and consulting global team

• • Introduced new suppliers to supply chain supporting price negotiations and sourcing strategy

• • Stakeholder-Management in localization activities to improve manufacturing readiness and quality

• • Coordination support of manufacturing, sales and R&D in 6+ projects

• • Leadership of application engineering teams supporting German OEM customers including prioritization and risk management for 5+ series projects and their KPIS

• • Successfully resolved escalations and stabilized customer care, relationships and communication

• • Agile team consulting and tracking (4 direct reports) and waterfall tracking of customer projects in new innovation products in engineering project management