David Wing Email & Phone Number

London, England, Gb

• Directed GKN Driveline’s commercial interface with GM and Ford globally, in addition to managing all customers in South America, while supporting two separate product streams. • Championed negotiations with GM and Ford globally for long-term supply agreements, commodity cost recoveries, margin progression, and disputes, developing customer strategies that maximized growth.• Promoted operational excellence by negotiating the localization of North American (NA) AWD product to GKN Driveline’s joint venture (JV) partner in China, opening up capacity in NA for higher GM demand while simultaneously cutting freight and inventory costs.• Exited a high volume of low-margin business with Ford to enable more profitable replacement business with other customers, facilitating a significant ROS margin increase in the CVJ and AWD/eDrive product streams due to high-impact, executive decision-making.• Launched multiple new products throughout tenure, continuously optimizing the product portfolio through communization in order to gain the benefits of volume

London, England, Gb

• Managed full customer relations with automotive companies in North and South America as a key member of the Regional Leadership Team, collaborating in directing the region.• Accomplished a steady increase in ROS margin across GKN Americas throughout tenure, facilitating year-over-year (YOY) improvement.• Utilized crisis management capabilities to navigate Chrysler and GM bankruptcies in 2009, negotiating a Cure Settlement with both customers for assumption of contracts upon the companies’ exit from bankruptcy.• Reengineered internal processes in alignment with CI methodology, realizing efficiencies that enabled Americas Commercial Teams to absorb higher sales without increasing headcount; improved opportunity tracking, pricing performance, cash tracking/recoveries, and managed contractual documents in the program registrar.• Integrated US and Mexico Commercial Teams into a single NA entity following GKN Driveline’s acquisition of a new JV in Mexico, establishing separate units for each customer in order to optimize operations.• Managed a high volume of direct and indirect reports, prioritizing professional development and Diversity & Inclusion initiatives to bolster employee engagement and satisfaction; led multiple team members to receive promotions while an additional five were allotted secondment assignments due to high performance.

London, England, Gb

• Spearheaded growth and development of the global DaimlerChrysler account, including Mitsubishi, across business in the US, Germany, and Japan.• Won a program award with for the Chrysler Grand Cherokee, securing all sideshaft and propshaft business for the vehicle.• Negotiated long-term price agreements with all three parties under the DaimlerChrysler umbrella, driving significant growth with Mitsubishi by creating competition with another supplier.

London, England, Gb

• Led product development and industrialization of GKN Driveline’s first AWD system for the Chrysler Minivan, overseeing the development and launch of five key assemblies sourced from multiple global sites.• Oversaw the fulfillment of GKN Driveline’s first-ever AWD system award, leading a cross-functional team to develop, test, validate, and launch a new technical proposal within 18 months after the initial proposal for the torque device failed vehicle testing.

Responsible for leading cross-functional launch teams to successfully launch new brake system programs with customers. Managed multiple product programs with various customers.

Responsible for managing Production, Quality, Shipping/Receiving, and Maintenance departments reporting to the General Manager.

Bs Industrial Engineering

Master Of Business Administration - Mba