Executive - Program Management

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Job Summary

To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add a Executive – Program Management in Chennai.

What a typical day looks like:

• Assist in the review of program proposals or plans to define time frame, procedures for accomplishing program, staffing requirements and allotment of available resources to various phases of program.

• Confers with appropriate managers within Program Management, Operations and others to outline work plan and to assign duties, responsibilities and scope of authority, and to receive technical advice and resolve problems.

• Drives and coordinates projects/activities with the Customer Focus Team (CFT) members to ensure program progresses on schedule and within prescribed budget, including facilitating the work/communication across different departments.

• Prepares program reports and executive presentations for management, client, or others.May assist in metric development and tracking for the program.Occasional travel to customer locations.

• Drive the team to look for continuous improvement activities that have an impact in the project timeline, cost or daily production activities.Follow up on shipments to ensure we meet site and customer guarantees without any delay and coordinate the team to any issue that could generate an impact.

• Coordinate and follow up on several program management reports within offshore Center (Global Business Services - GBS) & Site Customer Focus Team.Oversee/ Coordinates program activities with all inter-departments ensuring completion of all commitments made relative to agreed deliverable.

• Handles data of a highly confidential and critical in nature. Responsible for tracking relevant metrics and drive action items based on results within GBS / SITE Customer Focus Team. Demonstrate excellent communication and coordination skills & Customer Management Skill.

• Lead and drive the activities and ensure timely accurate delivery of our services. Good with documentation skills at various stages of Program. Excellent understanding on Program Management concepts, New Product Introduction / New Product Development / different phases of Product life cycle.Basic understanding /knowhow on the financial terms/ INCO Terms and its impact on the Profit & Loss on the business.Excellent understanding on customer focus team role in managing the customer.Hands on experience on using the ERP tool like Baan/ SAP for PM role.Excellent knowledge on using tools like MS Excel, Power Point etc. Knowledge of MS -Project will be added advantage.

The experience we’re looking to add to our team:

• 3 to 5 years of relevant experience in a manufacturing environment, with a strong inclination toward Program Management.

  Strong expertise in Microsoft Office tools (Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.).

• Bachelor's degree from Engineering BE EEE/BE ECE/Electronics

• Knowledge of automation tools is advantage. Good analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills. Ability to work effectively in a dynamic environment

• Open for night Shift.

• Excellent understanding on Program Management concepts, New Product Introduction / New Product Development / different phases of Product life cycle

What you’ll receive for the great work you provide:

• Health Insurance.

• PTO

MR03

Job Category

Operations

Required Skills:

Optional Skills:

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