Portfolio & Sales Interface - Deputy Manager

About the Position

Portfolio & Sales Interface - Deputy Manager

We are seeking a Deputy Manager for Portfolio & Sales Interface to join Bosch Ltd. in India. This role is pivotal in managing market insights and product lifecycle, ensuring alignment with regional sales and portfolio strategies.

Responsibilities

• Market, Customer & Competitive Insights: Develop a fact-based view of market dynamics and customer needs. Consolidate input from Sales, users, dealers, and channel partners; monitor competitor moves; identify opportunities, portfolio gaps, and commercial risks.
• Portfolio Strategy & Regional Requirements: Translate field and market insights into prioritized regional product demand. Contribute regional requirements to portfolio strategy, product roadmaps, business cases, and portfolio trade-offs, while aligning India Sales and Portfolio priorities.
• Product Lifecycle Management: Manage regional lifecycle requirements from ideation and launch through adoption, rationalization, phase-out, and retirement. Align launches and phase-outs with regional sales plans and market readiness.
• Commercial Performance Management: Track revenue, volume, margin, market share, product mix, and new-product performance. Diagnose performance gaps and recommend corrective actions, including portfolio rationalization and cost or complexity reduction opportunities.
• Sales Interface & Feedback Loop: Act as the strategic portfolio partner to India Sales. Provide timely product, portfolio, and competitive insights, and establish a structured feedback loop that converts field input into portfolio decisions and actions.
• Planning: Build project volumes by connecting market demand, channel signals, launch plans, and portfolio changes with commercial planning assumptions.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering; Master's degree in Business Management preferred.
• 5 to 10 years of relevant experience in portfolio management, product marketing, category management, business development, or Sales in a technical product environment.
• Strong exposure to regional and field sales dynamics, with the ability to convert market insight into measurable business action.
• Experience with P&L, pricing, market share, sales forecasting, or portfolio performance is preferred.
• Power Tools or adjacent technical-product experience is an advantage.

Skills

• Core Skills:

  • Business Case Evaluation
  • P&L Management
  • Cross-Functional Leadership
  • Sales Forecasting
  • Market Dynamics

• Secondary Skills:

  • Bosch Product Portfolio
  • Market Research
  • Competitor Analysis
  • Power Tools

We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Opportunity to work in a leading technology and services company
• Professional growth and development opportunities

About the Company

In India, Bosch is a leading supplier of technology and services in the areas of Mobility Solutions, Industrial Technology, Consumer Goods, and Energy and Building Technology. Bosch has the largest development center outside Germany, for end-to-end engineering and technology solutions. The Bosch Group operates in India through twelve companies and employs over 30,500 associates. Bosch Limited is the flagship company of the Bosch Group in India, generating consolidated sales of about Rs. 26,827 crores (3.1 billion euros) in fiscal year 2021-22.

Additional information can be accessed at www.bosch.in.