ASSOCIATE PROGRAM MANAGER

OPmobility; Maharashtra; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

OPmobility seeks an experienced Program/Project Manager to lead cross-functional teams and ensure profitability across automotive development projects. You will guide budgeting, planning, and stakeholder alignment with both OP and customer objectives, while steering EHS and quality data requirements throughout the lifecycle.

The role requires a strong background in automotive programs, leadership, and the ability to federate multi-disciplinary teams to deliver on time and within budget.

Qualifications

• Knowledge / Qualification
• University Engineering or business degree
• Experience in Automotive industry – commercial, financial, industrial or engineering background
• IATF16949 & Customer specific requirements. Completion of at least 2 projects (level 2 category) achieving their objectives
• Team playing, leadership, communication skills and rigor. Ability to federate teams, define and actively lead a cross departmental plan to achieve results.
• Professional proficiency in German, French or Italian is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Main Missions: Support the Program Managers to deliver the project (OP and Customer) objectives and deliverables.
• Responsible for the project profitability calculation.
• Steers the complete development budget and cash flow for the entire project.
• Supports a non-event launch of the project into production.
• Defines the business cases for the project and all scope changes.
• Manages the traceability, the KPIs, and the reporting.
• Promote EHS, quality and data requirements internally.
• Integrate and follow project objectives (EHS, Development Result, Hours, NPV, Gross / Material Margins, cash at SOP, project plan achievement, Launch Readiness, customer approval timing and IS tools completion).
• Project Definition
• Supports Project plan and checks total development budget is in accordance with the agreed Customer Statement of Work and validated project scope.

Skills

Project management

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Financial acumen

Stakeholder management

Education

University Engineering or business degree

Job description

• core and extended team, project controlling manager, customer quality manager, customer engineering managers, PMO director / leader / coach.

Organizational interfaces

• Direct Manager
• Functional Manager
• Organizational interfaces
• Customer Program director
• Program Manager
• core and extended team, project controlling manager, customer quality manager, customer engineering managers, PMO director / leader / coach.

Competences Requirements

• Knowledge / Qualification
• University Engineering or business degree
• Previous Experience (If relevant)
• Key technical competencies
• Key behavioral competencies (on top of OP Group competencies)
• Other Requirements
• Experience in Automotive industry – commercial, financial, industrial or engineering background
• Automotive global requirements
• IATF16949 & Customer specific requirements. Completion of at least 2 projects (level 2 category) achieving their objectives
• Team playing, leadership, communication skills and rigor. Ability to federate teams, define and actively lead a cross departmental plan to achieve results.
• Professional proficiency in German, French or Italian is a plus.

Missions

• Main Missions:
• Support the Program Managers to deliver the project (OP and Customer) objectives and deliverables.
• Responsible for the project profitability calculation.
• Steers the complete development budget and cash flow for the entire project.
• Supports a non-event launch of the project into production
• Defines the business cases for the project and all scope changes
• Manages the traceability, the KPIs, and the reporting
• Promote EHS, quality and data requirements internally
• KPI and/or main deliverables
• Integrate and follow project objectives (EHS, Development Result, Hours, NPV, Gross / Material Margins, cash at SOP, project plan achievement, Launch Readiness, customer approval timing and IS tools completion)
• Project Definition
• Supports Project plan and checks total development budget is in accordance with the agreed Customer Statement of Work and validated project scope.
• Supports the core team member’s OPTIMAP work packages and their agreed development budgets, in agreement with the project objectives and the project scope
• Updates the master project timing plan and consolidates negotiated planning of each core team member ensuring it conforms to the customer and PLM timing plans
• Follows-up the core team members’ targets to work towards in line with the project objectives to reach the expected profitability of the project (Development hours, PRU, investments, cash flow, Costs of Non-Quality).
• Follows and applies the direction of the BG cascaded by the Program director.
• At the end of the project, assesses the status against the original project objectives and feeds back lessons learned.
• Actions management / Reporting / Risks
• In line with the PLM Project Plan, supports the global project status consolidation and follows the status for the deliverables completion in the BG Information Systems.
• Identifies deviations from the planned Project Plan and validates the actions proposed by the core team members to realign.
• Supports project meetings, project reviews and end of phase reviews with all core team members to review project status and project action plan follow-up.
• Supports the preparation of the gateway reports to the OPTIMAP committee.
• Supports the assessment of the threats and opportunities of each department, prioritizes and follows the action plan to respond to the risks throughout the project phases.
• Supports the financial control / reporting of the project budget using the standard BG tools to consolidate and reporting cash flow and profitability to program reviews.
• Supports the scope change (internal / external) process and ensures the project budget is updated (hours, investment and production costs).
• Follows project development expenditure versus the planned budget, identifies any deviation (hours, investments and production costs), and proposes appropriate actions to realign.
• Manages the project cash flow, including tooling and other costs. Only project team members can authorize payment to suppliers respecting OPs procedures and terms.
• Challenges that the optimum technical and manufacturing solutions / choices are made by the project team to meet the design to cost project objectives.
• Prepares periodic reporting to the program director, plant director, department managers and sales director highlighting the key project progress and risks through the program review process.
• Follows the project reporting of each core team member to manage the escalation process of issues and risks and the achievement of their project actions.
• Team / people
• Supports the coordination of the project team, communication management, project meeting organization, conflict resolution and building an effective team.
• Supports the project team in applying the methodology of development - PLM through adequate division Information Systems
• In line with the project development budget identifies the resource needs, skills and locations to meet the project objectives.
• Contributes to the annual assessment process of the core team members.
• Follows company standards and best practices application as defined by each department to maximize the productivity of the development budget.
• Ensures the health and safety of the project team and respect the environment
• Applies and respects the procedures of the engineering and plant sites and the responsibility for control or destruction of project parts and waste.
• Customer
• With the support of the Quality team, ensures the actions of the customer APQP process
• Integrates the customer scope changes identified to the follow status and Customer agreement
• Department
• Participates in the establishment and the delivery of the department progress plans
• Participates in the continuous improvement of the departments, organization and methodologies, with actions of lessons learned, best practices and productivity.