Program Manager - IT

Only female candidates required.

Primary responsibilities include

- Leads the cross functional program teams to successfully achieve the program & business goals.

- Build program team and integrate into a collaborative, cohesive group with a common vision, mission, and Management Operating System. Leads cross- functional, cross-cultural and virtual teams at sites across the globe.

- Establishes and maintains the channels of communication necessary to assure timely customer and business awareness of program progress/issues.

- Takes sole ownership of all aspects of the development program.

- Identifies key resource needs, and then coordinates with engineering and other functional managers for resources to staff programs.

- Works with functional leaders and project team to develop operating systems that ensure accountability and performance to milestones and budget.

- Successful planning, development, and execution of the assigned product and service development and/ or certification programs to fulfill contractual and business requirements within approved budget & schedule constraints.

- Uses the NPI process to achieve customer deliverables, schedule, cost and related program milestones/ objectives. Understands NPI process in-detail, and drive all NPI programs as per NPI Process

- On schedule delivery of New Product meeting NPI phase gates as per specification and On budget.

- Accurately scopes out length and difficulty of tasks and projects; sets objectives and goals; breaks down work into the process steps; develops schedules and task/people assignments; anticipates and adjusts for problems and roadblocks; measure performance against goals; evaluates results.

- Negotiate skillfully in tough situations with both internal and external groups; settle differences with minimum noise; win concessions without damaging relationships; be direct and forceful as well as diplomatic; gains trust quickly of other parties to the negotiations; has a good sense of timing.

- Manages customer and internal changes through a robust Baseline Change Management process.

- Deals effectively with various domestic and foreign third-parties (i.e., customers, vendors, and partners) for the benefit of all programs

- Establishes professional relationships with global program managers and engineering directors to ensure customer satisfaction.

QUALIFICATION

- Bachelors / Masters Degree in Engineering

- PMP or equivalent certification preferred.

- MBA or any other Management Diploma/Certificate/Degree would be an added advent age

EXPERIENCE

10+ years with at least 6 years of NPI program related experience and preferably experienced in leading globally distributed cross discipline teams