Automotive Program Manager – Interiors (Luxury / Sports Cars)

Position Details:

Position: Program Manager – Interiors

Experience: 15+ years

Location: Onsite – United Kingdom

Employment Type: Full-time

No. of position: 2

About the Role

- We are looking for an experienced Automotive Program Manager to lead interior workstreams for a premium sports-car program based onsite in the UK.
- The ideal candidate will have strong cross-functional leadership skills and experience coordinating interior product development from requirements and design maturity through validation, release, and production readiness.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead end-to-end program delivery for automotive interior systems, ensuring milestones, deliverables, timelines, quality, and cost targets are met.
- Coordinate interior workstreams covering areas such as instrument panel, central console, door trims, cockpit, seating interfaces, headliner, carpets, and other cabin systems, as applicable to the program.
- Demonstrate expert proficiency in CATIA V5, with exposure to NX and other PLM tools.
- Manage program plans, gateways, deliverables, risks, dependencies, change requests, and issue-resolution activities.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams, including design, engineering, styling, packaging, CAE, validation, manufacturing, purchasing, quality, and suppliers.
- Track design maturity, engineering changes, bill-of-material status, validation activities, and readiness for design reviews and releases.
- Lead customer and stakeholder reviews, communicate program status and escalations, and drive closure of open actions.
- Manage supplier deliverables and support the resolution of technical, timing, quality, and manufacturing issues.




- Ensure interior development activities align with program requirements, applicable safety and regulatory requirements, and OEM processes.

Required Skills & Qualifications

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
- 15+ years of extensive experience in automotive interior systems, along with 2–3 years of proven experience in Program Management.
- Proven automotive program management experience in interior systems for premium, luxury, or sports-car programs.
- Experience working on Ferrari Amalfi, Aston Martin DB12, or McLaren vehicle programs will be considered an added advantage.
- Robust understanding of automotive interior development, packaging, design release, validation, and production-readiness processes.
- Strong understanding of styling-to-engineering handover, fit-and-finish, gap-and-flush, validation, and production-readiness processes.
- Experience managing schedules, risks, issues, engineering changes, milestones, and cross-functional dependencies.
- Excellent customer-facing communication, stakeholder management, reporting, and escalation skills.
- Must be willing to travel and work onsite in the UK as per project/customer needs and continue supporting the program from India upon return.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with European premium OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers.
- Familiarity with automotive PLM systems, BOM/change management, and program tracking tools.
- Experience managing suppliers and multi-disciplinary engineering teams.

Why Join Us?

- Opportunity to contribute to a premium European automotive program.
- Work onsite with international customer and engineering teams.
- Collaborate across vehicle development functions on a high-profile sports-car program.

📌 Automotive Program Manager – Interiors (Luxury / Sports Cars) (Bengaluru)
🏢 Inoptra Digital
📍 Bengaluru