Josep Maria Recasens appointed to product chief role at Renault Group

Renault Group has announced the assignment of Josep Maria Recasens arsenic Chief Strategy, Product & Program Management Officer (SPPM), effectual immediately. This change, the institution says, is portion of a thrust to simplify the organisation successful bid to summation its agility and speed.

Reporting to François Provost, CEO of Renault Group, and arsenic a subordinate of the Leadership Team, Josep Maria Recasens volition beryllium liable for defining the strategy to support the Group’s affirmative momentum, guiding merchandise choices for the coming years and coordinating the implementation to guarantee the occurrence of the aboriginal line-up.

In summation to his caller role, Recasens volition stay CEO of the Iberian Peninsula countries and volition proceed arsenic CEO of Ampere until the translation enactment is finalised.

“Since my arrival, I person focused connected implementing a simpler, much effectual and faster organisation to accommodate to the existent challenges. Bringing unneurotic the strategy, which sets the course, and the Product and Planning, which guides merchandise choices and programme directions, is an indispensable lever for greater coherence and agility. Josep Maria volition beryllium successful complaint of this scope and volition instrumentality implicit from Guido Haak, whom I warmly convey for his dedication and years with us,” said François Provost, CEO of Renault Group. “Ampere's ambition remains astatine the bosom of our strategy to supply our customers with innovative electrical and bundle technologies that are accessible to all.”

Josep Maria Recasens said: "I americium precise blessed to instrumentality connected this caller situation and grateful for the spot the radical has placed successful me. My archetypal precedence volition beryllium to widen to the full institution a fewer principles that person made Ampere successful: a beardown absorption connected the product, disciplined programme management, and a holistic presumption of investments. With the enactment of the Leadership Team, we volition adapt, accelerate and deploy these fundamentals to consolidate and amplify the renewed merchandise momentum, and embed this dynamic successful a sustainable mode astatine the bosom of the Renault Group's strategy.”

Josep Maria Recasens has a grade successful engineering and an MBA. He started astatine SEAT S.A. successful 2002, wherever helium held assorted positions successful the areas of R&D, merchandise readying and planetary task management, earlier being appointed Director of Strategy, General Secretary and Director of Public Affairs.

In June 2021, helium joined Renault Group arsenic Director of Strategy and Business Development. In this context, helium supported the implementation of the Renaulution strategy and contributed to the deployment of the concern strategy. On February 1, 2023, helium was appointed Chief Strategy Officer, subordinate of the Renault Group Leadership Team, and became Country Director, Iberia. At the clip of Ampere's instauration connected November 1, 2023, Josep Maria Recasens took the presumption of Chief Operating Officer of Ampere, earlier becoming CEO successful 2025.