Job title: | Program Manager - Cape Town |
Employment type: | Full Time |
Experience: | 3 to 5 years |
Salary: | Negotiable |
Job published: | 14 January 2021 |
Job reference no: | 4230787211 |
Job Description
Purpose of the job:
From program award until handover to production site, the program manager has the overall responsibility of the program in all aspects as below:
- Lead program team as functional manager, with an entrepreneurial mindset
- Meet financial targets (Operating Income, cash, Internal Rate of Return, Upfronts…)
- Ensure customer satisfaction (timing, quality, costs, product performance…)
- Plan and execute all activities which contribute to program success
- Ensure compliance code of ethics and code of management and escalate non-compliance items according to guidelines
Responsibilities:
- Secure staffing of the whole Core Team from the functions, in due time
- Build and monitor Master Schedule
- Achieve program targets through development & deployment of program roadmaps and cascade program objectives and assignments to team members
- Use Business Plan to monitor permanently convergence to financial expectations
- Manage the core team and ensure cooperation with the functions and the plant(s)
- Apply Program Management System (with successful and on time achievement of work packages, mandatory deliverables and key program milestones)
- Identify risks and opportunities. Ensure risk management and alert process
- Arbitrate top issues internally or externally within the program
- Act as official Company Program representative towards the customer to support its expectations while preserving company from risk exposure (like Engineering Change, planning…)
- Support or take the lead of commercial negotiations for contract evolutions
- Communicate and report relevant program status to secure proper management support on program issues
- Ensure that program experience is capitalized in knowledge management to improve future programs’ performance
Qualifications:
Education:
- Degree/Diploma in Engineering or in Business Administration
Experience:
- Experience in Engineering or Quality or Purchasing or Manufacturing in Automotive sector (car manufacturer/Tier)
- Demonstrate product and process engineer experience
- Team management experience
- Experience in budget control and profit enhancement
Program Manager: Minimum of 3 yrs experience
Technical skills:
- Knowledge of quality tools (FMEA, design of experiment, “QRCI”/problem solving skills)
- Finance skills (master business plan calculation)
- Program management knowledge in particularly in matrix organization (external)
- Ability to develop strong customer relationships at senior level
- English fluent
Behavioural skills:
- Negotiation skills & customer orientation
- Communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to manage a team in a matrix organization using management by objectives
- Network animation and influencing skills
- Ability to anticipate risks
- Accountability and transparency
- Ability to make quick and tough decision
- International mind set
- Entrepreneurship mindset