Program Manager

PROJECT DEFINITION

• Ensures the Project plan and total development budget is in accordance with the agreed Customer Statement Of Work and validated project scope.
• Establishes and manages the master project timing plan and consolidates negotiated planning of each core team member ensuring it conforms to the customer and internal timing plans (starting from quote).
• Leads the core team member’s work packages and their agreed development budgets, in agreement with the project objectives and the project scope.
• Responsible for the profitability of the project and sets the core team members targets to work towards in line with the project objectives. (e.g Development hours, investments, cash flow, Costs of Non Quality)
• At the end of the project: assesses the status against the original project objectives and feeds back lessons learned.

ACTION MANAGEMENT / REPORTING / RISKS

• Responsible for organizing project meetings, project reviews and end of phase reviews with all core team members to review project status and project action plan follow-up.
• Manages and identifies deviations from the planned Project Plan and validates the actions proposed by the core team members to realign.
• Consolidates the risks, threats and opportunities of each department, prioritizes and manages the action plan to respond to the risks throughout the project phases.
• Follows the project reporting of each core team member to manage the escalation process of issues and risks and the achievement of their project actions.
• To consolidate the global project status and ensures that the core teams are accountable for their status for the deliverable’s completion.
• Responsible for the financial control / reporting of the project budget using the standard division tools to consolidate and reporting cash flow and profitability to program reviews.
• Manages project development expenditure versus the planned budget, identifies any deviation (hours, investments, and production costs), and takes appropriate actions to realign.
• Challenges that the optimum technical and manufacturing solutions / choices are made by the project team to meet the design to cost project objectives
• Provides periodic reporting to the program director, plant director, department managers and sales director highlighting the key project progress and risks through the program review process.

TEAM / PEOPLE

• Ensures the coordination of the project team, communication management, project meeting organization, conflict resolution and building an effective team.
• In line with the project development budget identifies the resource needs, skills and locations to meet the project objectives
• Responsible to ensure the project team apply company standards and best practices as defined by each department to maximise the productivity of the development budget.
• Ensures the health and safety of the project team and the respect of the environment

CUSTOMER

• Is Plastic Omnium’s accountable representative of the project for the customer.
• Responsible for the coordination / management of all the project team members’ communications to the customer and ensure the core team members take their responsibility in front of the customer.
• Is responsible for ensuring that all the customer deliverables (customer approval, APQP, build deliveries etc.) are managed and delivered by the project team and reports the progress to the customer in line with the agreed Statement Of Work.
• Supports the Commercial Project Manager in the negotiation of customer scope changes.

DEPARTMENT

• Participates in the continuous improvement of the departments, organization, and methodologies, with actions of lessons learned, best practices and productivity.
• Cascading / be a mentor for another junior program manager.

+5 Years