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R&D Consulting Vice President/Partner

Job ID
487161
Posted since
02-Dec-2025
Organization
Advanta
Field of work
Product Management, Portfolio & Innovation
Company
Siemens Ltd., China
Experience level
Experienced Professional
Job type
Full-time
Work mode
Office/Site only
Employment type
Flexible
Location(s)
  • Shanghai - Shanghai Shi - China
R&D Consulting Practice of Siemens Advanta China.
What are my responsibilities? 我的工作职责是什么？
Job Description:
• Generate sales leads, develop long term customer relationships and key accounts, orchestrate internal resources and close deals with profound expertise and professional communication and coordination.
• Lead Digital R&D consulting team, including portfolio development (define and optimize consulting portfolio to meet customer needs in R&D and innovation domain), people development (recruiting, competence-developing and coaching.
• Help clients define and improve the Product Management and/or R&D processes, incl. product portfolio management, product requirement definition, product development and system engineering, product commercialization and phase out.
• Understand clients’ pain points and expectations in Product Management and/or R&D processes, practices and IT systems, analyze root causes and provide professional and practical recommendations and solutions to improve client’s QCD (quality, cost, delivery) KPIs.
• Guide through or coach customers to understand, accept and implement the recommendations and solutions provided above, realizing the customer impacts in terms of QCD KPIs.
• Facilitate internal and external workshops with customers, with a structure and guided group discussion on strategy, solutions, interviews, etc.
• Be responsible for leading clients through these operational improvements and scale up business transformations as a thought leader, people leader and organization leader
• Proactively manage changes with professional methods and handling complex analyses and resolve customer issue.
• Work hand in hand together with clients on each engagement, facilitating working sessions with client management/project teams, motivating and coaching the client team during transformations.
What do I need to qualify for this job? 我如何才能胜任？
• 10+ years of work experience in R&D consulting as Director or Partner, including R&D and innovation process, digitalization and solution.
• 5+ years of experience in leading R&D consulting team, including recruiting, developing and coaching team.
• Proven capability in generating sales leads, developing long term customer relationships and key accounts, orchestrating internal resources to close deals with profound expertise and professional communication and coordination.
• Be passionate about consulting and solving client’s problems in such domains as product management, R&D, modularization, requirement engineering, etc.
• Familiar with basic consulting skills as a structure thinking, visualization, questioning and interview, presentation and workshop moderations, etc.
• Familiar with CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration) and/or IPD (Integrated Product Development) and/or NPD (New Product Development).
• Working experiences or consulting experiences in modularization (or reuse design, product line engineering, requirement engineering etc.) is preferred.
• PLM software (e.g. TeamCenter, Winchill, CATIA) background and consulting experiences is preferred.
• Result oriented with structured analytical skills, with the ability to translate analysis into solutions.
• Evidence of a distinctive career achievement and/or academic record. Master degree in System or Software Engineering, other graduate level degree preferred.
• Comfort with extensive travel (60% or above)
• Fluent written and verbal communication skills in Mandarin and English
What else do I need to know? 我还需要了解哪些信息？
Siemens is dedicated to quality, equality, and valuating diversity and we welcome applications that reflect the diversity of the communities within which we work.
Siemens Advanta – supporting clients for a world-class business performance
As a world class consulting unit of Siemens AG, we strengthen the competitiveness of our clients (including internal Siemens organizations and Siemens customers or partners) along the global value chain. With our consulting services, we provide world-class tools, methodologies, processes and best practices to our clients in the areas of business innovation, R&D, engineering, procurement, supply chain logistics, manufacturing, services, project and crisis management, etc..
As a regional setup of Siemens Advanta Consulting, we aim to help our clients in a successful organizational change and transformation in business excellence via our domain know-how, methods and tools, processes and digitalization technologies. Additionally, we help to operate the communities of Product Lifecycle Management and Engineering, Service, Lean Management and Manufacturing within Siemens China in order to rapidly share and distribute global and local best practices.
About Siemens in China:
Siemens AG, founded in 1847, is a global technology powerhouse active in more than 200 countries, focusing on the areas of electrification, automation and digitalization. One of the world’s largest producers of energy-efficient and resource-saving technologies, Siemens has leading positions in efficient power generation and power transmission solutions, infrastructure solutions, automation, drive and software solutions, as well as medical imaging equipment and laboratory diagnostics. For more than 140 years since its entering into China in 1872, Siemens has pioneered cooperation with the country with its solutions, technologies and products, and has been known in the country for its quality and reliability, technological excellence and innovation. In Fiscal Year 2016 (October 1, 2015 – September 30, 2016), Siemens generated revenue of €6.44 billion in China, with around 31,000 employees. Siemens has become an integral part of the Chinese economy and society, and continues to partner with the country to address her pursuit of sustainable development.
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