ADAS Senior Technical Acquisition Manager

Shape the future of automated driving! 

Join the Bosch ADAS Area where we develop largescale safetycritical automotive systems for leading global OEMs. Our teams work on cuttingedge technologies across sensor platforms multicamera systems perception and scalable software solutions. 

As an ADAS Technical Acquisition Manager (TAM) you will play a key role in ensuring the successful acquisition of customer projects by driving technical and cross-functional coordination across internal development teams platform organizations and customer project stakeholders. Your work will directly contribute to customer satisfaction project transparency and the effective integration of platform capabilities into series customer projects. 

Job Description 

As an Technical Acquisition Manager (TAM) you will lead the technical and organizational coordination of customer Acquisition with a clear focus on successful delivery structured execution and professional customer communication. This role requires close collaboration with the platform organization fast adaptation to changing customer needs strong leadership of the acquisition project team and the ability to communicate customer expectations effectively into the internal organization while ensuring transparency proactive risk management efficient escalation handling and reliable budget adherence. 

Key Responsibilities 

1. Customer Acquisition Delivery & Platform Coordination 

• Take end-to-end responsibility for the successful technical delivery of acquisition projects in alignment with agreed scope milestones and quality expectations. 

• Maintain close day-to-day collaboration with the platform organization to ensure feasibility alignment on dependencies and timely integration of platform deliverables into customer projects. 

• Ensure high transparency on acquisition project status issues risks and decisions for both customer and internal stakeholders. 

2. Customer Collaboration & Communication 

• Act as a professional and reliable interface toward the customer ensuring clear solution-oriented and business-appropriate communication in all project phases. 

• Translate customer expectations priorities and change requests into clear internal communication toward development teams platform stakeholders and management. 

• Provide regular feedback from customer interactions to the platform and internal teams in order to support continuous improvement and better alignment with customer needs. 

3. Technical Leadership of acquisition projects & Execution 

• Lead and steer the cross-functional acquisition project team with a structured target-oriented working style to ensure timely issue resolution and delivery progress. 

• Drive proactive risk management by identifying critical topics early defining mitigation actions and escalating effectively when needed. 

• Take ownership in critical situations by leading task-force activities coordinating recovery measures and aligning stakeholders around clear action plans. 

4. Technical Acquisition Project Management 

• Define and maintain acquisition project objectives milestones delivery plans governance mechanisms and financial steering for acquisition customer projects. 

• Ensure budget compliance and support EBIT targets by proactively monitoring project costs delivery impact and financial risks while driving timely corrective actions when needed. 

• Ensure structured tracking of actions open issues decisions and stakeholder communication across internal and customer interfaces. 

• Adapt quickly to changing acquisition project conditions customer priorities and escalation scenarios while maintaining delivery focus and team alignment. 

Qualifications :

Qualifications 

Mandatory Requirements 

• Minimum 5 years of TAM experience preferably in the ADAS domain. 

• Demonstrated hands-on experience in managing acquisition customer projects with strong focus on delivery stakeholder alignment and customer satisfaction. 

• Deep technical understanding of camera architectures imaging pipelines sensors calibration and HW/SW interfaces. 

• Strong customer-facing communication skills combined with confident stakeholder management across customers platform teams and internal management. 

• Knowledge of automotive development frameworks (ASPICE safety validation). 

• Fluent English skills. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience in leading escalations task-force activities or recovery plans in complex automotive development projects. 

• German language skills are a plus. 

Soft Skills 

• Strong structured thinking ownership and execution-oriented leadership. 

• High adaptability and resilience in dynamic customer and project environments. 

• Ability to lead teams moderate critical discussions and communicate complex topics clearly and professionally. 

Travel 

• Willingness to travel. 

Additional Information :

Get to know our #LikeABosch benefits.

We would like to help you GROW so we offer you:

• Financial security & recognition: We review and increase your competitive base salary annually offer performance- loyalty- and referral bonus.
• Trainings and professional development: We believe in a Life-Long Learning approach so you can take advantage of several technical and soft skill trainings and language courses.
• Career development: We have a wide range of programs to choose from even if its leadership expert or project development you are aiming for. We also offer mentoring and coaching opportunities we have PhD program and we offer international assignment possibilities.

We would like you to ENJOY the benefits of balancing your life and your work so we pay attention to:

• Your work life-balance: You can work from our activity based offices designed for creativity and efficiency or from home while enjoying flexible working hours. We offer childcare possibilities and sabbatical option.
• Your health and well-being: We provide free professional consultants for any personal legal financial or health related issues. You can benefit from our developing onsite medical center and organized regular health checkups.
• We also offer you several perks and benefits: You can use your annual cafeteria allowance flexibly for family support (e.g. tax-free kindergarten and nursery allowances) health care mobility (car sharing services) and recreation. You can enjoy our onsite canteen we support when you work from home and if you live far we cover your commute costs. We also appreciate your loyalty with jubilee gift and extra jubilee holiday.

You could join an INSPIRING community worth to belong:

• We are true to our values: We are committed to sustainability we value that everyone is different and that diversity makes us truly successful. We also take social responsibility seriously and regularly organize charity actions blood donations and support worthy causes.
• Team building activities and community events are also part of our everydays. We like to come together for a good summer party or family day.

Are you ready to work #LikeABosch

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time