Leads the firm's work with automotive and assembly clients and co-leads McKinsey Center for Future Mobility in Asia; advises clients on strategy, digital and analytics, product-planning and development, margin-optimization, operations transformation, and capability building.
Brajesh is a partner based in Delhi. He works with leading companies in the automotive and assembly sector enabling them to drive change at scale while building capabilities and creating value. Brajesh co-leads the McKinsey Center for Future Mobility in Asia, the firm’s thinktank on new age mobility disruptions, and is focusing on helping clients in emerging markets change to a more sustainable & connected mobility format.
Examples of his recent client projects include the following:
- Design and built an ‘integrated digital customer platform’ for a leading passenger-car OEM
- Modularization of product design for a large two-wheeler OEM, with the objective of reducing part-bin complexity, increasing time to market, and improve cost base
- Margin improvement program at a large industrial machinery player with operations in textile machinery and machine tools
- Cost-transformation program at a marquee two-wheeler OEM, along with institutionalizing the cost culture and necessary capabilities to sustain the impact
- Electric vehicle strategy for an attacker OEM, along with helping the client secure product partnerships and build this business vertically from scratch
- EV strategy for a power-solutions supplier to select opportunities for growth in the EV ecosystem and build partnerships
- Front-end network design a leading Indian passenger-car OEM with a focus on improving service levels and optimizing network cost