When an applicant is in a functional role, the opportunity to be in a client-facing role driving the company’s strategic direction is low. That doesn’t diminish the opportunities the applicant receives in interdepartmental and supplier negotiations.
Large organizations have strict protocols for facilitating meetings and negotiations as every personnel’s time are billed and tracked by the hour.
For the applicant, the challenge was not just in interdepartmental communication and negotiation. The company is a conglomerate with suppliers in Brazil, the Marketing team in Europe, Engineers in Japan and India, and Management in the USA.
As a Design Engineer, he found a flaw in a component. Once the design is finalized, the cost and delay from a flawed component are exponential. The applicant expands on how he facilitated meetings with four teams dispersed in four Timezones while maintaining strict protocols on communication. The effort helped him in bringing the design change to production.
Sample Essay – Pick One Thing from your resume and tell us more (Negotiating Design Changes – Cross-functional and Global communication) (100 Words)
•Persuaded 15 suppliers, management, and marketing persons, to adopt an improved modeling technique, saving an estimated 5M USD/year in modification costs
<y’s> suppliers were in Brazil, the Marketing team in Europe, Engineers in Japan and India, and Management in the US. As a design engineer, I found..
