SVP – Digital Platforms — Automotive-Chip Business

The mandate

The chair and executive committee are aligned that the immediate priority is fragmented digital platforms constraining customer and employee journeys within a listed fabless, foundry or semiconductor-systems enterprise. The immediate arena is the automotive-chip business during a yield and ramp challenge. For mandate 509, the successful executive inherits decisions that have been deferred, competing stakeholder expectations and a need to establish facts before committing further capital.

The SVP – Digital Platforms operating perimeter covers approximately ₹7,150 crore in design, manufacturing and customer programme portfolio, with activity spanning several automotive-chip business customer, product and delivery clusters rather than a single asset. The SVP – Digital Platforms Semiconductor remit carries direct influence over roughly 425 colleagues and third-party capacity.

The group board and the relevant risk and people committees want a SVP – Digital Platforms who can convert ambiguity into a short list of explicit choices for the automotive-chip business. The SVP – Digital Platforms Semiconductor seat must resolve a yield and ramp challenge, while preserving the underlying strengths of the automotive-chip business. For mandate 509, value will come through sharper allocation, stronger leaders and an operating cadence that exposes variance early.

The SVP – Digital Platforms’s first year on the automotive-chip business is expected to end with platform adoption, reliability and measurable process simplification. In mandate 509, authority covers resources and leadership appointments; material trade-offs go directly to the board sponsor.

Why this seat is open

This is a newly created SVP – Digital Platforms — Automotive-Chip Business seat approved as part of the next operating model; it is not an incumbent replacement. The board is running a planned 4–6 month search so the appointee can join ahead of the next capital and talent cycle. Current leaders retain their existing accountabilities until the automotive-chip business remit is formally activated. Confidentiality protects organisation design choices while the board compares external and adjacent-sector talent.

What you will own

• Set the SVP – Digital Platforms value-creation thesis for the automotive-chip business, translate it into no more than five enterprise priorities and stop work that does not support them.
• Carry stewardship of approximately ₹7,150 crore in design, manufacturing and customer programme portfolio, including allocation, risk acceptance and board forecasts.
• Lead the SVP – Digital Platforms Semiconductor organisation of about 425 employees and partners, appointing a team with clear decision rights and credible succession for every critical seat.
• Resolve the automotive-chip business economics and execution constraints created by a yield and ramp challenge, with SVP – Digital Platforms-approved owners, dated milestones and transparent escalation thresholds.
• Establish one SVP – Digital Platforms operating review across commercial, customer, financial, people, technology and risk outcomes for the automotive-chip business; remove reconciliations that obscure accountability.
• Show end-to-end ownership of a material platform or value stream, including budget, talent and measurable operating outcomes in mandate 509.
• Build the SVP – Digital Platforms’s three-year succession and capability plan for the automotive-chip business, reducing dependence on individual executives and improving mobility across the wider Semiconductor organisation.

The first 12 months

• Days 1–90: Validate the automotive-chip business baseline, meet the 30 stakeholders most consequential to fragmented digital platforms constraining customer and employee journeys, assess the leadership team, stabilise immediate delivery risks and agree a board-owned scorecard with explicit decision gates.
• Months 4–9: Make the principal SVP – Digital Platforms portfolio and organisation choices for the automotive-chip business, install the new operating cadence, fill critical leadership gaps and deliver the first measurable release of cash, capacity or customer value.
• Months 10–12: Demonstrate a repeatable automotive-chip business trend against platform adoption, reliability and measurable process simplification, lock the following year’s capital and talent plan, evidence control sustainability and present a credible three-year value case with downside actions.

What the board will measure

• Delivery of the SVP – Digital Platforms’s agreed first-year automotive-chip business value case within a 10% tolerance, with variance explained before rather than after the relevant quarter closes.
• A SVP – Digital Platforms forecast that remains decision-useful across three consecutive quarters and reconciles the automotive-chip business’s operating, cash, customer and people assumptions.
• Closure of the SVP – Digital Platforms mandate’s highest-priority automotive-chip business risk and execution issues by their board-approved dates, with independent evidence that fixes are sustained.
• Retention of at least 90% of critical automotive-chip business talent and ready-now successors for at least 70% of the SVP – Digital Platforms’s direct reports.
• A quantified SVP – Digital Platforms-owned improvement in the automotive-chip business operating constraint behind a yield and ramp challenge, supported by a clean baseline and named data owner.
• Clear stakeholder confidence in mandate 509: no unresolved high-severity escalation older than 30 days and no material surprise withheld from its agreed governance forum.

The person

You are currently a SVP Digital, Platform Head or Technology Transformation Leader in a listed Semiconductor or adjacent enterprise. In relation to the automotive-chip business, your SVP – Digital Platforms track record includes a transition where the original plan was no longer sufficient; you can explain your choices, evidence and numerical impact. Candidates from semiconductors, electronics, embedded systems, advanced manufacturing or engineering services will be considered where the operating model, customer stakes and governance intensity match this SVP – Digital Platforms brief.

As a SVP – Digital Platforms candidate, you bring 18–22 years of progressive Semiconductor or adjacent-sector experience, consistent with the 18-22 experience band. At minimum, you have carried a P&L, book, budget or accountable portfolio of ₹4,150 crore and led an organisation of at least 350 people.

For mandate 509, the board wants two transitions: a difficult automotive-chip business portfolio choice and a leadership-system change during a yield and ramp challenge. As the prospective SVP – Digital Platforms for this automotive-chip business, you must challenge optimistic cases and still create followership. References for mandate 509 must distinguish your contribution from the institution around you.

The SVP – Digital Platforms role in Semiconductor is based in Pune; relocation is expected, although a structured weekly commute may be considered during the first quarter.

Non-negotiables

• Current or recent accountability at the level of SVP Digital, Platform Head or Technology Transformation Leader, with direct exposure to a board, investment committee or equivalent Semiconductor governance forum.
• Proven SVP – Digital Platforms ownership of at least ₹4,150 crore and leadership of no fewer than 350 employees in a comparable automotive-chip business context.
• One completed Semiconductor or adjacent-sector example of fragmented digital platforms constraining customer and employee journeys with outcomes sustained for at least two reporting periods after the initial intervention.
• Sector credibility from semiconductors, electronics, embedded systems, advanced manufacturing or engineering services; experience that is purely functional and lacks SVP – Digital Platforms-level automotive-chip business consequences will not meet the bar.
• Willingness to meet the Pune location expectation, complete conflicts and background diligence, and protect the confidentiality of mandate 509.

Compensation and terms

The anticipated SVP – Digital Platforms package is ₹2.2–3.0 crore fixed + performance variable, calibrated to the final automotive-chip business scope and the candidate’s current mix. Any long-term participation for mandate 509 follows standard vesting and performance conditions. The SVP – Digital Platforms appointment in Pune, centred on the automotive-chip business, offers regular exposure to the group board and the relevant risk and people committees. A notice period of up to 6 months can be accommodated for the selected executive in mandate 509.

Confidentiality

The client name, precise footprint and transaction history are outside this brief for mandate 509. They will be shared with qualified candidates under a mutual undertaking, and the composite facts here must not be reverse-engineered or circulated for mandate 509.