Senior Executive, Program Management

• Lead and coordinate BCC and Localization projects from initiation through supplier qualification, industrialization, and implementation across Leuze’s global manufacturing plants.
• Manage project plans, milestones, resources, and performance against cost, quality, timing, and supply chain objectives, driving corrective actions where required.
• Collaborate with Commodity Management and R&D leadership to identify and prioritize BCC opportunities based on business impact, cost reduction potential, feasibility, and supply risk.
• Translate approved commodity strategies into actionable project plans while aligning sourcing objectives, technical requirements, priorities, and available resources.
• Act as the central coordinator across Commodity Management, R&D, Quality, Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Manufacturing Plants, and suppliers to ensure effective project execution.
• Drive stakeholder alignment, facilitate project reviews and decision-making, resolve cross-functional issues, and ensure timely closure of agreed actions.
• Collaborate with Global and Local R&D teams to coordinate engineering support, technical qualification, validation, testing, and approval activities for supplier transfers and BCC implementation.
• Monitor qualification milestones and ensure technical requirements, acceptance criteria, and engineering deliverables are clearly aligned across all stakeholders.
• Coordinate supplier onboarding, development, qualification, industrialization, and production ramp-up activities in collaboration with Quality, Engineering, Operations, and suppliers.
• Ensure supplier readiness and implementation activities are effectively coordinated across multiple manufacturing sites while standardizing project tools and processes.
• Proactively identify project risks, bottlenecks, dependencies, and potential delays, and drive appropriate mitigation and contingency plans.
• Escalate critical issues affecting project timelines, quality, cost savings, or supply continuity and ensure timely resolution with clear management visibility.
• Establish and maintain project tracking tools, dashboards, governance processes, and reporting standards to monitor overall BCC project portfolio performance.
• Provide timely management updates on project milestones, qualification status, cost savings, implementation progress, risks, and escalations through clear reports and presentations.
• Continuously improve BCC and Localization project governance, execution methodologies, and processes to accelerate qualification, implementation, and sourcing transfer activities.
• Drive standardization of project management tools and practices while sharing lessons learned and best practices across the organization.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
• 5–8 years of relevant experience in Program/Project Management, Strategic Sourcing, Supply Chain, Manufacturing Engineering, Operations, or related fields.
• Experience in BCC, supplier transfer, localization, cost reduction, NPI, supplier industrialization, or manufacturing/sourcing projects.
• Experience working with global stakeholders in a multinational manufacturing environment.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional projects and influence stakeholders without direct authority.
• Strong program and project management skills with a structured, analytical, and results-oriented approach.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, presentation, and influencing skills.
• Good understanding of sourcing, supplier development, engineering qualification, industrialization, and manufacturing processes.
• Strong problem-solving, risk management, decision-making, and escalation management capabilities.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and projects in a fast-paced global environment.
• Proactive mindset with strong ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement orientation.

Key Success Metrics

• BCC and Localization projects delivered on time and according to agreed milestones.
• Achievement of targeted cost savings, sourcing objectives, and supplier implementation targets.
• Successful supplier qualification, industrialization, and production implementation.
• Timely completion of engineering validation, testing, and approval activities.
• Effective cross-functional alignment and proactive resolution of project risks and dependencies.
• Accurate and timely project governance, reporting, and management visibility.
• Continuous improvement and standardization of BCC program management processes and tools.