Title: Program Manager
Key Responsibilities And Authorities
Key responsibilities
- Employee’s awareness of their impact on product quality and the importance of their activities in achieving, maintaining, and improving quality, including customer requirements and the risks involved for the customer with non-conforming product.
- Lead program execution for in adherence with CPI program management tool.
- Responsible for quality, cost, performance and timing, meeting program financials.
- Lead all Customer’s Communications for the Program
- Attend/lead Customer’s Meetings / Sr Mgmt Meetings / Customer Visits
- Ensure preparation of Customer visits at Nexteer facilities in coordination with relevant functional areas.
- Structure functional PdT’s, establish cadence of reviews, rank and prioritize open issues
- Escalate program risks to functional leaders and Nexteer Leadership Team, build recovery plans to ensure risk mitigation (Stop&Fix).
- Trigger corrective actions when program metrics deviate from original commitment.
- Manage and coordinate program Design Reviews and Enterprise Reviews and assign preparation and deliverable to different functional areas.
- Lead program communication through preparation and attendance to Customer Project Reviews.
- Develop and Lead Execution for Profit Recovery (CIP)Plan to insure Program achieves BCase Commitments
- Structure and maintain program timelines to align with customer timingbased on detailed timelines from each functional area, ensure coherence throughout the execution of the program.
- Ensure Web CPI for the Program is updated
I Education
Qualifications required:
- Bachelor degree or above in engineering or business administration
II Experience
- 0-2 years experience in development and industrial launch of a program, either as program team member or program manager
III Skills/Training
- Interpersonal skills to work effectively with others, ability to work in a multi-functional, multi-site team environment and be facilitator/leader for Teamwork
- Good written and verbal communication in English (min. C1)
- Time management
- Familiarity with product costing and BCase
- Resilience, ability to withstand internal and external pressure and fulfil assignments under stress
- Ability to seek and analyze Customer feedback to understand and communicate Customer needs
- Ability to defend enterprise business interests in front of Customer while not deteriorating Customer relationships
- IT tools (Web CPI, Excel, Powerpoint)
Corporate Competences
- Empowered to Act
- Constructive Communication
- Personal Growth
- Passion for Perfect Quality
- Clear and Timely Decisions
- Integrity & Accountability
- Customer Focus
- Relentless Innovation
- Collaborative Relationships
- Business insight
- Global Perspective
- Drives vision and purpose
- Strategic mindset
- Executes Strategy through Effective
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