Senior Manager - Cockpit Systems

· Strategy, Technical Direction & Domain Delivery Define and evolve the systems engineering strategy for Digital Cockpit and Body Systems. Set clear priorities, manage dependencies and technical trade-offs, and ensure features within these domains are delivered to the required quality, timing and commercial targets across all programmes.

· Backlog Governance & Delivery Planning Own the feature backlog end-to-end: translate strategic and programme priorities into a sequenced, resourced delivery plan; govern scope and technical trade-offs; and maintain a credible forward view for senior stakeholders and programme leadership.

· Stakeholder & Cross-Functional Leadership Build trusted relationships across engineering, programme, platform, attribute and business teams. Align priorities, surface risks early, resolve conflicts, and represent the function's position with authority in senior forums and decision gates.

· Tooling, Methods & Ways of Working Represent the function in tooling and methods working groups. Drive adoption of scalable systems engineering practices and toolchains that improve consistency, traceability and delivery efficiency.

· Team Leadership, Resourcing, Suppliers & Budget Structure and resource the team to meet current and future commitments. Own headcount planning, supplier delivery, capability development and budget control, creating an environment of accountability, growth and high performance.

· Performance, Governance & Continuous Improvement Define and monitor delivery, quality and systems maturity metrics. Use data to drive transparent decision-making, hold delivery partners to account, and champion improvements in practice, process and organisational effectiveness.

· Extensive experience leading systems engineering delivery in complex automotive or high-performance engineering environments.

· Strong technical grounding, including the integration and delivery execution of customer-facing functionality, electrical features, software-driven controls, and cross-domain vehicle interactions.

· Demonstrated ability to own and govern a delivery backlog across multiple stakeholders with competing priorities.

· Proven senior leadership of teams, budgets, suppliers, capability development and performance frameworks.

· Degree-qualified in engineering (or equivalent); strong command of systems engineering methods, governance and toolchain strategy.