Zetwerk - Program Manager - Strategic Initiatives

About Zetwerk :

Zetwerk is a global manufacturing network that maximizes efficiency, quality and value. Its manufacturing capabilities help customers reduce costs of existing and new production parts, minimize the number of suppliers and execute production faster. Founded in December 2017, Zetwerk helps take digital designs into physical manifestations, from simple items like pipes to complex products like aircraft engine parts at its captive and partner facilities. With a virtually unlimited range of production capacities and capabilities, Zetwerk makes anything possible: any specification, scale, category or geography. Zetwerk ensures the right match for specifications at competitive costs and lead times. It offers quality monitoring through indigenously developed technology that provides end-to-end transparency from purchase orders to delivery, eliminating uncertainties around quality, visibility, reliability, and under-utilized capacities.

Zetwerk has delivered more than 1000 projects in over 15 countries to close to 300 customers so far. It is backed by marquee investors such as Accel Partners, Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed, Greenoaks and Kae Capital who have together invested close to $200 million in the company.

Why Zetwerk

A company that's changing the way manufacturing is done needs game changers to shape the future. At Zetwerk, our job is to help you excel in your career and make an Impact. We offer you an environment to create a unique career journey, opportunities to grow your ambition and an inclusive culture to help you thrive. We encourage innovation through collaboration and connect you to leaders who help you go beyond. We deliver the best for our people so that they can deliver the best for our customers. It's that simple. It's Zetwerk.

Job Brief and Responsibilities:

The Program Manager will lead and coordinate a team of high performing Managers and their teams responsible for end to end finance & operations management. The job involves end to end business planning including but not limited to creating annual plans and strategy for execution, ensuring operational rigor and designing high business impact processes. He/she will be the strategic point of contact to the management teams and must therefore be comfortable and confident liaising with remote teams and senior leaders.

He/She will manage business impact via functional activities and will be accountable for designing and delivering on all KPIs of the same. The individual will interface and drive agenda with the finance & operations teams to build scalable solutions and in addition he/she will be responsible for ensuring the safety, security and integrity of the financial systems and data. The role involves influencing peers and stakeholders in other functions to achieve the operational and business goals.

The successful candidate should have the ability to work at all levels of detail to accomplish team/organization goals. He or she will be a self starter who can organise projects to accelerate outcomes & influence without authority

Some of the key result areas include, but not limited to:

- Responsibility for defining and driving operational/business goals

- Building a data oriented culture, adoption of technology solutions and process improvement projects to achieve operational and business goals

- Managing stakeholder communication across multiple lines of business on operational milestones, process changes, escalations, etc

- Designing and developing strong relationships with senior stakeholders in the business.

- Ensuring high quality standards for interviewing and hiring employees

- Own critical workstreams end to end such as: OKR management; Supply Chain Planning & Quality management

Key Requirements:

- 5+ yrs work experience with at least 2 yrs of program management experience.

- Has a background in quantitative decision making, ability to drive business/operations metrics, and driving adoption of different tools and resources.

- Has managed critical operational processes, with end to end business responsibility.

- Strong analytical, mediation and problem resolution skills.

- Demonstrated leadership with a bias towards action, supporting a culture of ownership and learning.

- Skilled in a collaborative management environment, succeeding through regular meetings and clear formal and informal communication with members of the remote and local management teams.

- Excellent written and oral communication skills