Senior Program Manager

Responsiblties:

• Follow up to ensure costing receives necessary data to develop quote.
• Ensure programs are within budget at program end and for the life of the program.
• Lead the Program Team to identify and achieve Continuous Improvement /cost reductions on programs.
• Ensure customer involvement where necessary to achieve Continuous Improvement objectives by program to increase overall program margin.
• Ensuring that a clear line of communication occurs between customer base, Gentherm and all key personnel are engaged throughout the program lifecycle.
• Manage/ensure the APQP processes are executed from Acquisition to Launch, including ramp up material planning for start of production
• Develop a detailed program management plan, resource requirements and overall costs to launch the program with the Program Team and present status updates at executive program review meetings.
• Elevate red risk items to Top Management for immediate response and resolution on show stopper issues.
• Manage, capture and process engineering changes for the life of the program.
• Ensure that appropriate technical interface during the product development cycle is established and maintained with the customer including providing support during field failures or other failed components when necessary.

Qualification:

• Design engineering experience.
• Experience in Thermal management, Pneumatic & Lumbar systems.
• Experience with automotive seat systems and/or interiors is a plus.
• Agile/lean experience in a product owner or scrum master role, organizations leveraging lean/agile methodologies and in-depth experience with specific agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban.

Key Skills:

• Leadership.
• Project management.
• Communication.
• Risk management.
• Problem solving.
• Program management.
• Team leadership.
• Strategic planning.
• Budgets.