Sébastien Arab

Customer Program Manager - Automotive Instrument Clusters and Displays - German OEMs

Stuttgart Region

About

10+ years of experience at Tier 1 Automotive suppliers. 7+ years of experience as Project Leader / Project Manager in the management of large projects with complex requirements involving large development teams of various disciplines (HW, SW, mechanics, optics, display), overseeing worldwide industrialization in several plants, for premium car manufacturers, with development budget >20M€. Coordination of several RFQ including successful ones. Fluent in German, English and French.

Experience

  • Marelli (12 yrs 10 mos)
    • Customer Program Manager
      Jun 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 1 mo

    • Project Manager
      Sep 2013 - May 2023 · 9 yrs 9 mos

      Project Manager for Instrument Clusters for high end cars (German OEM). Overall responsibility for: - multi-disciplinary R&D team (Mechanics, Electronics, SW, Optics & Display) of >100 people - R&D Budget > 20 M€ - Worldwide industrialization on 3 different plants (Italy, China, Mexico) - Main customer interface Also coordinating activities as project manager during RFQ's for various German OEM's. Project portfolio as project / program manager below: Audi B9 instrument cluster (development till SOP), Porsche eMacan dual Information Display (RFQ till SOP)

  • HUF Hülsbeck & Fürst (3 yrs 1 mo)
    • Technischer Projektleiter
      Mar 2012 - Aug 2013 · 1 yr 6 mos

      Technical Project Leader in charge of all development activities and part of the industrialization, on a safety relevant electromechanical product for a GM platform. Project team: ~12 people. Planning, interface to the customer for all technical topics, technical requirements analysis.

    • Technischer Koordinator
      Aug 2010 - Mar 2012 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Design Engineer at Valeo Security Systems
    Jan 2008 - Jul 2010 · 2 yrs 7 mos