Program Manager – Silicon Valley
The Program Manager is responsible for leading multifunctional teams to ensure a flawless product launch. He or she ensures all project commitments are met, on schedule, by all departments. A PM manages high degrees of change, conflict, customer interaction and crisis management.
Responsibilities
- Provide Project Plan in line with customer and Aptiv requirements: Define project milestones, timeline, and project team.
- Lead cross-functional team for program goals understand and communicate customer requirements to the team.
- Manage program plan that meets internal and customer deliverables.
- Implementing and managing change. Intervening when necessary to ensure project goals are met.
- Assure clear, concise communication within the team and to the customer.
- Lead team to ensure program profitability is at or above Program targets.
- Control program execution and manage deviations to plan, define tasks and action plans to close gaps and control execution and effectiveness of these plans.
- Use program escalation process to elevate issues to ensure program deliverables are met on time, within budget, and within scope.
- Schedule, prepare and conduct project reviews.
- Indicators: Flawless launch metrics (Full PPAP, Full Run @ Rate, Customer complaints, Program Financial Results, etc.), Program documentation and reporting
Qualifications
- Ability to manage ambiguity and make clarity of an incomplete picture in order to provide clear direction to the team.
- Early recognition of issues, have a sense of urgency to finding/implementing countermeasures or solutions.
- Managing team performance through influence.
- Ability to zoom in and out. Comfortable understanding and verifying details of the different functional areas affecting the Program while able to provide executive level summaries to senior management.
- Available to travel domestically and internationally as business needs require (up to 25%).
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Prior Program Management or Project Management experience.
- Professional experience managing complex supply chains, tooling suppliers and manufacturing.
- Strong Microsoft Office proficiency (Excel, PowerPoint, Project)
- Fluency in English and Spanish
This position will be based in Nuevo Laredo or Monterrey, Mexico. Selected candidates for interviews will be provided a case study to complete and present as part of the interview process.
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