The Program Manager is responsible for leading multifunctional teams to ensure a flawless product launch. He or she ensures all project commitments are met, on schedule, by all departments. A PM manages high degrees of change, conflict, customer interaction and crisis management.

Responsibilities

• Provide Project Plan in line with customer and Aptiv requirements: Define project milestones, timeline, and project team.
• Lead cross-functional team for program goals understand and communicate customer requirements to the team.
• Manage program plan that meets internal and customer deliverables.
• Implementing and managing change. Intervening when necessary to ensure project goals are met.
• Assure clear, concise communication within the team and to the customer.
• Lead team to ensure program profitability is at or above Program targets.
• Control program execution and manage deviations to plan, define tasks and action plans to close gaps and control execution and effectiveness of these plans.
• Use program escalation process to elevate issues to ensure program deliverables are met on time, within budget, and within scope.
• Schedule, prepare and conduct project reviews.
• Indicators: Flawless launch metrics (Full PPAP, Full Run @ Rate, Customer complaints, Program Financial Results, etc.), Program documentation and reporting

• Ability to manage ambiguity and make clarity of an incomplete picture in order to provide clear direction to the team.
• Early recognition of issues, have a sense of urgency to finding/implementing countermeasures or solutions.
• Managing team performance through influence.
• Ability to zoom in and out. Comfortable understanding and verifying details of the different functional areas affecting the Program while able to provide executive level summaries to senior management.
• Available to travel domestically and internationally as business needs require (up to 25%).

• Bachelor's Degree
• Prior Program Management or Project Management experience.
• Professional experience managing complex supply chains, tooling suppliers and manufacturing.
• Strong Microsoft Office proficiency (Excel, PowerPoint, Project)
• Fluency in English and Spanish

• High level of integrity and compliance
• Strong written and oral communication, ability to communicate with all levels of management
• Excellent analytical skills, attention to detail and able to work with high degree of accuracy
• Passion for Results - ability to solve problems analytically, creatively and collaboratively
• Play to win - thought leaders who empower those around them.
• Act with urgency - seeing every challenge as a learning opportunity and invitation to grow
• Continuous Learner - an entrepreneurial mindset that's driven by hands-on experimentation