Program Management Leader

What you’ll do:

The PM is primarily responsible for leading growth programs for end to end development and successful launch in the end markets.

Further, the leader is expected to:-

• Work closely with global cross functional teams teams, PLMs and engineering team to meet ES EMEA business objectives and drive critical projects in alignment with business.
• Lead cross-functional teams to drive accountability and performance established for commercial, technical, and manufacturing readiness levels at start of production.
• Influence and secure baseline business case expectations with key stakeholders in the areas of scope, benefit, cost, assumptions, risks/opportunities, key milestones, and alternate implementation scenarios. Fully understand and articulate business case financials and content.
• Establish organizational resource management plans that clearly articulate the requirements for core team member, work package approver, and decision gate committee member engagement for the project duration.
• Build effective cross-functional team culture by recognizing individual strengths and weaknesses, providing proactive feedback and coaching, and creating an atmosphere that inspires learning and recognition. Drive a mindset of proactive risk mitigation and methodical problem solving.
• Leverage program management standard work processes, tools, systems, and performance measures to provide an operational cadence, agility and transparency during project execution.
• Establish and execute effective internal and external stakeholder communication strategies that address customer, internal leadership, and core team needs for the duration of a project.
• Effectively tailor messaging and lead project/program reviews with multiple levels of leadership to enable robust decision making and risk mitigation.
• Develop negotiation strategies with functional partners that meet business case commitments for both customer and supplier contract management. Ensure effective change management processes and contract language is designed and applied.
• Engage in new business proposal development by partnering on product strategy and product roadmap initiatives.
• Strengthen skillsets in cross-functional and operational knowledge areas outside of previous domain expertise (i.e. Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, and Finance).

Qualifications:

• A bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical/Mechanical Engineering from an accredited institution
• Overall 12+ years of experience with ~ 10 years in project management

Skills:

• Overall 12+ years of experience with ~ 10 years in project management

• Experience leading a team through all stages of the product development cycle

• Minimum 2 years experience in leading portfolio and people management"

Desired:

• Electrical/Mechanical Engineering

• Strong Experience in Mechanical Design and hands on experience in Electrical product development life cycle

• Knowledge in Agile ProLaunch and PreLaunch processes

• Ability to work with multiple cultures, functions, and regions as well as with technical and non-technical audiences

• Strong curiosity, creativity, and ability to work with different levels of the organization including senior executives

• English proficiency on both verbal and written communication

• Influencing without authority, high accountability, conflict management, leading with strong drive for results