Program Manager (Monterrey)

First Brands Group, LLC is the parent company of many of the automotive industry's most recognizable OEM and Aftermarket brands. First Brands Group is a privately held organization and leader in automotive repair and maintenance products. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio with operations found around the globe, we are a team of professionals dedicated to building profitable, enduring growth among all our customers. We have an immediate opening for a Program Manager. The primary function of this role is to lead our go to market efforts for new products.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Leadership of our New Product Introduction projects. Serves as the single point of contact for assigned projects
• Oversees cross functional collaboration to ensure project objectives and deadlines are communicated and met
• Creates, tracks, and reports status of appropriately detailed project plans for high visibility projects. Ensures NPI stakeholders (customers, product mgmt, sales, and Business Unit leadership) are kept up to date regarding project status
• Maintains an awareness of business activities that can potentially impact NPI activities so that appropriate risk mitigations can be developed as necessary to meet project deliverables
• Escalates project risks to functional level managers and Business Unit leadership as necessary to ensure actions are in place to ensure timely project completion
• Leads daily and weekly meetings for the purpose of establishing, communicating, and monitoring priorities and identifying and assigning ownership of issues and risks
• Is the NPI process owner. Has ownership for creating and maintaining appropriate process flows for efficient project execution. Organizes and leads management reviews of NPI activities

Education, Experience, and Skills

• Bachelor’s Degree in technical or business management or equivalent in education and experience
• Three to five years of combined professional experience in operations, engineering, supply chain, purchasing, or program management
• Aftermarket product development and launch - Preferred
• Ability to lead and motivate employees

First Brands Group is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are deeply committed to building a workplace and general community where inclusion is valued. Employment decisions at FBG are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, or belief, national, social, or ethnic origin, sex, or age. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to the above forementioned as well as, gender, gender identity family/marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, age, past or present military veteran status, or any other non-merit based or legally protected grounds. FBG will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these grounds or characteristics.