Program Manager

ABOUT THE ROLE

Program Management, Launch Management, Engineering, Operations, Quality, Finance and Sales.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Ensures problem identification and resolution.
• Ensures a high level of integration and collaboration with the plants and Launch
• Managers in their program, as well as alignment with the program team members in Engineering, Sales, Finance, Quality and Purchasing.
• Takes an active “go and verify” approach to program by personally visiting the plants and suppliers at appropriate intervals.
• Ensures the effectiveness of program team meetings and customer review meetings.
• Ensures effective communication with program team.  Acts as the central communication point for their programs.
• Manages the program team from Gate 1 (Stage 2) through Gate 7.
• Manages the quoting team during Stage 2.
• Ensures effective and timely scope management with emphasis on customer scope changes and executes the Scope Change process and approval.
• Ensures program trade off analysis – balancing cost, time, product and resources.
• Identifies program risks early, develops and executes mitigation strategies and executes the Red Flag process.
• Escalates risk with mitigation strategies to the leadership team in a timely fashion.
• Creates high quality timing plans that are developed with the program team with effective buy in from all functional areas.
• Meets 0 days late for all Gates.
• Meets all customer MRDs on time with high quality products.
• Ensures all program financial targets and budgets are met.
• Verifies the CARs and Business Cases are reasonable and achievable.
• Ensures effective and logical financial roadmaps are executed.
• Ensures quality objectives and roadmaps are developed, executed and met via their program teams.
• Ensures sourcing on time with high quality suppliers.
• Ensures appropriate completion of Make versus Buy decisions.
• Ensures on time PPAP of purchased components.
• Visits critical suppliers at appropriate points in the program with the members of their Program Teams.  

JOB REQUIREMENTS

Technical Skills:

• Proven knowledge of program management methodology, tools and techniques.  
• Cross functional team leadership experiences preferred.                              
• Demonstrated experience leading or working on a cross functional team in multiple regions / cultures is preferred.                         
• Functional understanding of BOM’s, MRP, QS9000 & related AIAG practices and standards.                         
• Technical familiarity with a range of materials and manufacturing processes desired.
• Execution and quality focus.                             

Soft Skills:

• Good Leadership Skill, Communication Skill                          
• Good Interpersonal Skill & People management skill                       
• Good in MS-Office, MS Project                         

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s in engineering with 13+ years of relevant experience                        
• PMP (Project Management Professional) Certification is added advantage
• Travel: Yes, Frequently                            

Languages Required: English, Tamil