Cenk Acar

• Achieved C1-German Language Certification (Advanced Professional Level) to facilitate professional integration and effective collaboration within organisations. • Managed parental responsibilities for two young children (Elternzeit).

• Cross-functional requirements engineering by considering competitor benchmarking, customer feedback, and field data. Supporting supplier selection criteria. • Technical market-access requirements for suppliers. “Declarations of Conformity” for “Own Brand” products. • Ensured own branded products comply with quality, legal and safety requirements. • Contact person for regulatory authorities across all international markets. • Risk assessment, withdrawal and recall decisions in case of non-conformity.

• Primary interface between After-Sales and R&D for the resolution of field complaints and ensuring the permanent non-recurrence of technical issues. • Led an agile project following a sales suspension in the AT market; design and component changes and market reintroduction within 12 months despite resource constraints. • Directed complex 8D root cause analyses for field failures, coordinating cross-functional teams to implement sustainable technical countermeasures and safeguard product reliability.

• Development of gas-burning condensing heating appliances, managing the integration of new features, expanded power ranges, and diverse gas types for international markets. • Managed laboratory performance and robustness tests with hands-on execution while supervising technical staff. • Governed product validation and certification processes in accordance with EN standards to ensure full regulatory compliance.

• Development of condensing fans in collaboration with global suppliers. • Engineering expertise for technical component roadmap and global purchasing strategy. • Led a global cross-functional competence team focused on technical failure reduction and knowledge sharing across international sites. • Technical specifications and performance requirements for condensing fan. • Standalone and system-level functional and robustness testing for new components to validate performance before serial production.

• Development of static and no-frost refrigerators. (mechanical design, technical documentation, BoM, FMEAs, initial sample approval (ISIR/PPAP), and pre-series production. • New appliance platform for the African and Indian markets. • Engineering Change Management (ECM) for quality improvement and cost optimisation activities. • Award: Employee of the month (December 2009) - For achieving €250k+ in annual cost savings through the technical redesign of the static refrigerator cooling circuit.

• Development and design of a no-frost appliance, including a six-month assignment abroad at the R&D center in Italy. Responsible from design to ramp-up and serial production.

• Directed workshop operations for stamping tools (automotive & household).