Program Manager

Tenneco
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

About The Role

Program Management, Launch Management, Engineering, Operations, Quality, Finance and Sales.

Key Responsibilities

  • Ensures problem identification and resolution.
  • Ensures a high level of integration and collaboration with the plants and Launch
  • Managers in their program, as well as alignment with the program team members in Engineering, Sales, Finance, Quality and Purchasing.
  • Takes an active “go and verify” approach to program by personally visiting the plants and suppliers at appropriate intervals.
  • Ensures the effectiveness of program team meetings and customer review meetings.
  • Ensures effective communication with program team. Acts as the central communication point for their programs.
  • Manages the program team from Gate 1 (Stage 2) through Gate 7.
  • Manages the quoting team during Stage 2.
  • Ensures effective and timely scope management with emphasis on customer scope changes and executes the Scope Change process and approval.
  • Ensures program trade off analysis – balancing cost, time, product and resources.
  • Identifies program risks early, develops and executes mitigation strategies and executes the Red Flag process.
  • Escalates risk with mitigation strategies to the leadership team in a timely fashion.
  • Creates high quality timing plans that are developed with the program team with effective buy in from all functional areas.
  • Meets 0 days late for all Gates.
  • Meets all customer MRDs on time with high quality products.
  • Ensures all program financial targets and budgets are met.
  • Verifies the CARs and Business Cases are reasonable and achievable.
  • Ensures effective and logical financial roadmaps are executed.
  • Ensures quality objectives and roadmaps are developed, executed and met via their program teams.
  • Ensures sourcing on time with high quality suppliers.
  • Ensures appropriate completion of Make versus Buy decisions.
  • Ensures on time PPAP of purchased components.
  • Visits critical suppliers at appropriate points in the program with the members of their Program Teams.

Job Requirements

Technical Skills:

  • Proven knowledge of program management methodology, tools and techniques.
  • Cross functional team leadership experiences preferred.
  • Demonstrated experience leading or working on a cross functional team in multiple regions / cultures is preferred.
  • Functional understanding of BOM’s, MRP, QS9000 & related AIAG practices and standards.
  • Technical familiarity with a range of materials and manufacturing processes desired.
  • Execution and quality focus.

Soft Skills:

  • Good Leadership Skill, Communication Skill
  • Good Interpersonal Skill & People management skill
  • Good in MS-Office, MS Project

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s in engineering with 13+ years of relevant experience
  • PMP (Project Management Professional) Certification is added advantage
  • Travel: Yes, Frequently

Languages Required: English, Tamil

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