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:

- Positive 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

📌 Program Manager (Tamil Nadu)
🏢 Tenneco
📍 Tamil Nadu