Bajaj Electricals Limited

Job Title Head – Quality Assurance & R&D Job Code

Department/ BU Quality Assurance Location Sion Office / ABS
Reporting To Executive Director

Organizational Description
Bajaj Electricals Limited (BEL), an 80-year-old trusted company with a turnover of Rs.4716 Crores, is a part of the
"Bajaj Group".
We have 3 business segments – Transmission and Distribution, Consumer Products and Illumination.

With 18 branch offices spread across India we are supported by a chain of about approximately 1500 trade
partners, over 2,00,000 retail outlets and over 480 Customer Care centers.
Job Description
1. Quality Assurance
 Head the quality system related activities for products and processes related to vendor manufacturing
and BUs. for continuous improvements.
 Provide quality leadership and support in development of new products and processes.
 Plan vendor evaluation process develop criteria and ensure evaluations are conducted on time and
reports released.
 Provide guidelines to BU and vendors for closing gaps in quality processes, monitoring and reporting
results.
 Interface with customers, suppliers, partners, and internal stakeholders in both the plant and at
customer locations to enhance their perception and understanding of the quality systems.
 Interact with customer care for field related complaints and provide support for their reduction.
 Develop and implement new quality initiatives and strategic projects to continually improve the overall
quality of products.
 Facilitate customer quality audits and inspections as appropriate to demonstrate compliance to ISO
standards.
 Create an ecosystem to improve product quality & sensitivity towards maintaining high quality
standards through use of 7QC tools, SPC, Six Sigma and Kaizen.
 Lead the development & implementation initiative for improving the quality standards of organization.

2. R&D
 Introduce & maintain world-class R&D capabilities by being a change catalyst in improving the current
R&D processes.

 To build a team of talented professionals with creative minds in delivering quality products for the end

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 Leverage existing resource pool based on their expertise to deliver the R & D Mandates

 Develop a challenging environment for employees to come up with innovative & radical designs to
support the purpose of R & D.

 Maintain a culture of confidentiality amongst all the members of the R & D centre

 Provide timely guidance to register the products for patents etc.

 Develop strong relationships with certification organisations to facilitate the processes.

 Represent Company in national & international forums with the intent to share the learnings.

 Continuously evaluate the infrastructure & the talent pool to keep it relevant & contemporary

 Encourage teams to improve key processes including; reducing time-to-market, improving design for
manufacturability, improving design for quality, and driving down cost to manufacture while
maintaining innovation

 Collaborate with all BU stakeholders, to define R&D priorities and activities supporting organic growth
and product launch on time and within budget.

 Devising the Long term Strategy for R & D & develop infrastructure aligning to meet investment plan.

 Carry out surveys with Marketing team, Competitors to chart out plan to be best in the market by
concluding upon the guidelines for new design in consultation with the Design Team.

 Make yearly development plan with Product Line up, quantity growth along with Product Planning/
Marketing team.

 Manage the Life cycle management of the existing products

 Ensure all projects (New development, Improvement & lifecycle) delivered comply with required
standards, regulations and processes

 Analyse field data from Service for the areas needing improvement and offer design solutions for the
relevant issues.

 Follow up with regular reviews and bottleneck improvements

 Implement metrics to measure progress toward achieving world-class capabilities, in accordance with
R&D requirements.

Qualification: Degree in Engineering, Preferably Electrical / Electronics &TC and MBA / PGD - Quality Management
Systems

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Experience: 15 to 20 years

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