Daniel Trigiani Email & Phone Number

• Responsible for launch and lifecycle of A4, A5, RS5, Q5 families, as well as future battery electric vehicle offerings, representing over 50% of annual volume
• As portfolio manager, led volume development scenarios and product requestso Supported long-term sales planning targets, including electrification milestones and regulatory emissions requirements
• Successfully negotiated repositioning of Q5 SUV, supporting recovery to #1-selling model in segment
• Simultaneously led complexity reduction and profit optimization tasks at Audi Canada, including:o Strategically standardizing, eliminating, and/or packaging model features where appropriate to improve inventory.
• Drove product improvement exploration with Audi AG colleagues, including product index benchmarking and pricing negotiation
• Maintained cross-functional coordination with internal and external stakeholders to ensure success:o Initiated in-house creation of new product order guideo Prepared and delivered presentations to agencies to guide.

• Long-term planning: instrumental in development of 10-year volume forecast, incorporating macroeconomic developments, industry trends, product availability, and competitive positioning. Collaborated with product.
• Improved data management processes to expand scope, detail, and timeliness of ad-hoc reporting. Delivered monthly presentations with actionable insight on how to guide sales strategy by identifying opportunities in.
• Developed and refined methodology for assigning dealer targets for upcoming calendar year, integrating historical performance, local market opportunities, and third-party industry forecasts

Mississauga, ON

• Streamlined inventory and reduced holding cost by identifying unproductive materials through data analytics combined with information compiled from competing internal stakeholders. Avoided obsolete inventory expenses.
• Performed spend analysis focused on reducing procurement costs. Initiated action plan by providing specific recommendations to purchasing team and operations managers. Utilized historic pricing trends to devise.
• Collaborated with Marketing team to create raw materials requirement forecast for next 18 months. Used projections to recommend specific cost mitigation measures on future component spending

Woodbridge, ON

• Led design and project management of electrical test connectors for OEM and tier-one automotive manufacturers
• Established library of flexible 3D models, reducing design time by 30% while improving product performance
• Created innovative o-ring design automation to reduce design time by 90% and virtually eliminate human error; overwhelming success led to publishing a technical report to global company intranet

Master Of Business Administration

Specialization in strategy and process improvement

Bsc Eng, Mechanical Engineering

Graduated with Honours Granted Applied Science Entrance Scholarship, 2008