Pearse Keane

Global Strategy, Planning and Product Management for Electronics business. Development and deployment of the global Electronics long term strategy and business plan. Commercialization of new products and the fulfilment of development investment business cases. Commercial planning of revenues, business awards and pipeline with consequential organizational alignment. Sales opportunity and engineering resources alignment using S&OP (Sales and Operations Planning).

Global Strategy, Alliances, Planning and Product Marketing for Electronics Product Group business. Development and deployment of the global Electronics Product Group long term strategy and business plan. Led M&A, JV, Partner and Alliances strategy and implementation. Commercial planning of revenues, business awards and pipeline with consequential organisational alignment. Product Marketing providing both strategic marketing input to product definition as well as positioning and promotion

Business Unit Manager responsible for Global Product Strategy and Planning for Instrumentation, Body & Security and Integrated Solutions business. Product line P&L responsibility dual reporting to Global Product Line Dir. and Global Strategy Dir. Management of Product Lines including product, market and customer strategy for all global regions; determination of affordable cost structures; revenue and profit growth in line with targets.

Technical and commercial lead interfacing at all levels of the BMW organisation related to electronics, cockpits, system integration and advanced concept development. Developed business cases and championed the commercialisation of technologies with BMW and to board level internally. Managed 4 projects through leadership of globally dispersed teams of up to 50 people in 4 countries

Management of business development and sales activities with all UK-based customers and Asian transplant operations Europe-wide. European representative in the development and implementation of new processes, structures and tools to culturally move the organisation from a division of Ford to an independent, customer-focused supplier company. Developed sales strategies and business plans to form part of corporate Business Plan and drove alignment of Product Development plans with customer needs/wants.

Responsible for outgoing, incoming and in-plant material handling in a 24 hour manufacturing operation with more than 4m product shipments per year, 3000 different components and nearly 100 suppliers. Established a new supplier improvement activity to manage all aspects of supplier performance and achieve new break-through levels of quality and delivery.

Provided Quality and Management Operating System consultancy to, and audited supplier companies against Ford and automotive industry standards.

Full lifecycle engineering ownership of a range of linear/analog semiconductors for EMEA automotive and telecom customers. Product characterisation, releasing, test software and hardware, customer returns resolution, etc.