Planning, organization and target setting:
- Set up / maintains program structure (timing, team, budget), plans required resource.
- Cascades agreed program targets to team members.
- Develops program plans including timing, program milestones, critical path, risk management, cost/benefit analysis, and budgets.
- Plans team meeting schedules and timing for key meetings including program and launch readiness reviews.

Controlling / Managing / Problem Solving
- Systematically manages program risks.
- Solves conflicts at his level and within the team.
- Escalates issues to management that cannot be solved within team.
- Assigns necessary tasks and co-ordinates the different functions within the projects (Operations, Purchasing, Engineering, Finance, Marketing and Sales )
- Meets customer targets (Quality & Cost targets, Technical & program objectives, specifications, Development budget, Timing/milestones, PPAP)
- Meets internal targets (Profitability & Cost targets, program budget, quality & technical requirements, Capex & tooling budget, program timing, Supplier & FG PPAP/PSW)




- Follows up task completion,
- Ultimately responsible to deliver program on time and within the cost parameters.

Task Execution
- Leads multi-discipline team; program launch team typically consists of PM, ME, Operations, Launch Engineer, Marketing and Sales, Quality
- Integrates lessons learned from previous programs.
- Receives and critically assesses design proposals from TPL with respect to cost, timing & manufacturing feasibility.
- Receives and critically assesses cost for price / engineering changes decisions/opportunities.
- Responsible for planning and follow-up of trial runs
- Responsible for generating lessons learned.

Communication and Reporting
- Communicates to concern team / Departments (timing, program status, change management) in customer language/format.
- Cascades / publishes information to team and reporting to management by using program review templates.
- Ensures timely

📌 Lead Program Manager (Pune)
🏢 Tata AutoComp
📍 Pune