Program Manager

2 weeks ago

Cape Town, South Africa Abantu Staffing Solutions Full time

**Job Title **:Program Manager**Employment Type **:Full Time**Experience **:5 to 6 years**Salary **:Negotiable**Job Published **:05 March 2024**Job Reference No. **:3689682636**REQUIREMENTS**
- Degree or diploma in Engineering
- PMP certification, and/ or a degree in Business Administration, and/ or international experience would be an advantage
- Minimum of 5 years experience in the automotive sector (car manufacturer/ Tier) Project, Engineering, Quality, Purchasing or Manufacturing fields
- Ability to demonstrate product and process engineering experience
- Team management experience
- Experience in profit enhancement, cash flow management, and budget control
- Able to travel locally and abroad, and support periodic site visits across various sites of the Company as needed to achieve project deliverables

**SKILLS**
- Knowledge of quality tools (FMEA, design of experiment, problem-solving methodology skills)
- Finance skills (master business plan calculation)
- Program management knowledge and/ or program management methodologies experience in a matrix organisation
- Ability to develop strong customer relationships at the senior level
- Fluent in English
- Negotiation skills and customer orientation
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to build, develop, lead, and unite a diverse team in a matrix organisation
- Network animation and influencing skills
- Strategic, analytic, and problem-solving capabilities
- Ability to anticipate risks
- Accountability and transparency
- Ability to make quick and tough decisions
- International mindset
- Entrepreneurship mindset

**RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Lead the program team as a functional manager, with an entrepreneurial mindset
- Meet financial targets (operating income, cash, internal rate of return, upfronts, etc.)
- Ensure customer satisfaction (timing, quality, costs, product performance, etc.)
- Plan and execute all activities which contribute to program success
- Ensure compliance with the code of ethics and code of management and escalate non-compliance items according to guidelines
- Protect the Company's interests and image
- Secure staffing with the appropriate skill level of the whole core team from the functions, in due time
- Build and monitor master schedules
- Achieve program targets through the development and deployment of program roadmaps and cascade program objectives and assignments to team members
- Use business plan tools and work closely with controlling, constructing business plans, and monitoring and managing convergence to financial expectations. The program manager owns the P&L of the program
- Manage the core team and ensure cooperation with the functions and the plant(s) (sales, controlling, purchasing, quality, plant launch, supply chain, product and process engineering)
- Identify risks and opportunities
- Ensure risk management and alert processes are diligently executed
- Arbitrate top issues internally or externally within the program
- Act as official Company program representative towards the customer to support its expectations while preserving the company from risk exposure (like engineering change, planning, etc.)
- Negotiate the commercial aspects with the customers including engineering changes if needed
- Communicate and report program status to secure proper management support on program issues
- Ensure that program experience is capitalized in knowledge management to improve future program performance

**Skills**:

- EngineeringBusiness AdministrationQuality ControlPurchasingFinancial ControlFailure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA)Program Management**Industries**:

- AutomotiveManufacturing

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