NAME: Siddharth Agarwal

Education
B.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering) Thapar
University

Summary Statement
Experienced Manager with 10 years of cross-
functional experience in the automotive industry
with an excellent track record. Skilled in Project
Management, New Product Development,
Facility Development and Vehicle Benchmarking.

Work Experience
Maruti Suzuki India Limited
New Product Development and Project Management
 Led a 10 member team and administered Engine calibration development for all new petrol
and CNG vehicles to deliver promising drive-feel to global and domestic customers; delivered
over 15 new vehicle models with best-in-class drivability and performance.
 As technical project leader managed end to end execution and delivered ‘Speed Limiting
Functionality (SLF)’ and ‘Bharat Stage-6 (BS-6)’ projects with shortest delivery timelines;
enabling MSIL to become the frontrunner in launching the first SLF vehicle in taxi segment and
the first BS6 compliant vehicle in India.
 Orchestrated project and resource planning, define targets and managed internal and
international stakeholders; improved facility utilization by 10%.
 Fostered cost reduction projects for continuous profitability improvement through value
engineering and localization; awarded best cost-saving suggestion (1/15K) for complete in-
house development of TourH1 thus saving INR 13 Million for the organization.
 Enhanced efficiency through process design and improvement; reduced man-hours for the
objective evaluation of drivability by 30%.
 Resolved 9 major market quality issues, for the vehicles in the domestic as well as international
markets, through ground-breaking solutions, thus avoiding market recalls.

New Facility Development

 Spearheaded planning, designing and procurement for the new state of the art R&D facility, a
project worth INR 3 billion that significantly enhanced our testing capabilities.
 Administered vendor selection through technical evaluation, quality and cost analysis of 5
international suppliers.

Benchmarking and Homologation

 Led a team of 6 engineers, steered powertrain benchmarking and devised powertrain strategy
through market analysis for future vehicles; presented multiple benchmarking evaluations to
the top management.
• Devised test database management that boosted reliability and reduced man-hours by 17%.
• Entrusted with the responsibility of homologation (regulatory compliance) testing of vehicles;
got 8 vehicles certified.

Achievements/Awards:
• Excellent track record with two back to back exceptional Fast-track promotions (Awarded to
top 1%); became youngest team leader.
• Received annual achievement award from Vice-president for pioneering initiatives in new
 facility establishment and Alto development (Awarded to top 5%).
• Main inventor of a patent titled “Modeling alternator system in torque-based engine
management systems” that enables annual cost savings of INR 75 Million for MSIL.

Skills/Certifications:
• Pursued the Design Thinking course by MIT Sloan – ‘Innovation of Product and Services: MIT’s
Approach to Design Thinking’ to develop well-rounded, customer-centric and environment
efficient products and services in future.
• Earned the Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification from KPMG to effectively develop products
and processes with operational excellence.

LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/siddharth-agarwal1/

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