General Manager - MINTH Group

MINTH Group is a leading supplier of exterior automobile body parts in China. It is principally engaged in the design, manufacture and sale of trim, body structural parts and decorative parts for passenger cars in China, North America and Thailand. The Group also exports its products to global markets including Europe and Asia-pacific regions.Since its founding, manufacturing facilities have been established in east, south, north, central and southwest China covering the major automakers in China. Globally, with the establishment of sales, program management and R&D network in the world’s major automobile markets such as Tokyo and Detroit, the Group has constantly expanded its exports to North America, Europe, Japan, Australia and Southeast Asia. Moreover, the Group has focused on business development in emerging markets. In January 2008, a joint venture company MINTH-AAPICO (Thailand) Co., Ltd was established in Thailand by MINTH and AAPICO Hitech Public Company, and M
INTH Mexico was set up in Mexico in October 2009. With this, the Group has initiated its production network in the global emerging markets.

Main Responsibilities:

The India General Manager will be responsible for the P&L of the India operations including the set up and establishment of the new factory in India. And then ensure overall business achieves the desired profit and cost levels through efficient utilization of available resources consistent with applicable regulations and established company policies. The main responsibilities are:

Work with team members from China to understand potential cooperation partners in India, to find out the background of those partners, meanwhile, has experience in business negotiation and can join the negotiations with those potential partners as well;

Take responsibility to set up a JV with partner together, talking with local government in land, initiative policies, company registration procedures and etc.;

Build up the core team for this JV, organize the company structure, interview and confirm the department managers, rule out the operation procedures;

Help sales to talk with customers and win new business from them;

Can manage the daily operation of the JV when it goes into production, covering all major operation activities, from customer order received from customers, material purchasing, production scheduling till delivering the products to the customers and return the payment from them;

Requirement:

Has more than 10 years working background in automotive industry, and worked in G.M position for more than 3 years in similar automotive parts company;

Has 3-5 years each in sales, production management position;

Fluent in English and able to communicate well with colleagues from China HQ and others branches in different countries;

Has good communication skill;

Can take pressure as motivation;

Can stay in China for training for some time, and will work in Chennai area in India;

Preferred:

Familiar with MINTH products, like door frame, beltline molding, grille;

Experience of setting up a new business