Program Manager

About the Position

We are seeking a Program Manager to oversee various aspects of program management, including launch management, engineering, and quality assurance.

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.

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 an added advantage
• Travel: Yes, Frequently

Languages Required

• English
• Tamil

We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Opportunity to work with a leading company in the industry
• Professional growth and development opportunities

About the Company

Tenneco is a global leader in powertrain and exhaust technology, committed to delivering innovative solutions to improve the efficiency and sustainability of vehicles.

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