Program Management Leader

Eaton Corporation; Pune District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Eaton Corporation in Pune, India, seeks a seasoned Program Manager to lead end-to-end development programs and successful product launches across markets. You will collaborate with global teams, PLMs, and engineering to meet business objectives and drive critical initiatives with strong leadership and disciplined project execution.

Responsibilities include ensuring readiness across commercial, technical, and manufacturing domains, shaping business cases, and defining resource plans while

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical/Mechanical Engineering from an accredited institution.
• Overall 12+ years of experience with ~10 years in project management.

Responsibilities

• Lead growth programs for end-to-end development and successful launch in end markets.
• Work with global cross-functional teams, PLMs and engineering to meet ES EMEA objectives and drive critical projects.
• Lead cross-functional teams to ensure commercial, technical, and manufacturing readiness at start of production.
• Articulate and secure baselined business case expectations with stakeholders across scope, cost, risks, milestones.
• Develop resource plans and engage core team members and decision gates for project duration.
• Foster cross-functional team culture, mentor, and drive proactive risk mitigation and problem solving.
• Apply standard PM processes and tools to provide cadence, agility, and transparency.
• Establish stakeholder communication strategies for customers, leadership, and core teams.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

Risk management

Agile ProLaunch/PreLaunch

Education

Electrical/Mechanical Engineering degree

Job description

What you’ll do:

The PM is primarily responsible for leading growth programs for end to end development and successful launch in the end markets.

Further, the leader is expected to:-

• Work closely with global cross functional teams teams, PLMs and engineering team to meet ES EMEA business objectives and drive critical projects in alignment with business.
• Lead cross-functional teams to drive accountability and performance established for commercial, technical, and manufacturing readiness levels at start of production.
• Influence and secure baseline business case expectations with key stakeholders in the areas of scope, benefit, cost, assumptions, risks/opportunities, key milestones, and alternate implementation scenarios. Fully understand and articulate business case financials and content.
• Establish organizational resource management plans that clearly articulate the requirements for core team member, work package approver, and decision gate committee member engagement for the project duration.
• Build effective cross-functional team culture by recognizing individual strengths and weaknesses, providing proactive feedback and coaching, and creating an atmosphere that inspires learning and recognition. Drive a mindset of proactive risk mitigation and methodical problem solving.
• Leverage program management standard work processes, tools, systems, and performance measures to provide an operational cadence, agility and transparency during project execution.
• Establish and execute effective internal and external stakeholder communication strategies that address customer, internal leadership, and core team needs for the duration of a project.
• Effectively tailor messaging and lead project/program reviews with multiple levels of leadership to enable robust decision making and risk mitigation.
• Develop negotiation strategies with functional partners that meet business case commitments for both customer and supplier contract management. Ensure effective change management processes and contract language is designed and applied.
• Engage in new business proposal development by partnering on product strategy and product roadmap initiatives.
• Strengthen skillsets in cross-functional and operational knowledge areas outside of previous domain expertise (i.e. Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, and Finance).

Qualifications:

• A bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical/Mechanical Engineering from an accredited institution
• Overall 12+ years of experience with ~ 10 years in project management

Skills:

• Overall 12+ years of experience with ~ 10 years in project development
• Experience leading a team through all stages of the product development cycle
• "Minimum 2 years experience in leading portfolio and people management"

Desired:

• Electrical/Mechanical Engineering
• Strong Experience in Mechanical Design and hands on experience in Electrical product development life cycle
• Knowledge in Agile ProLaunch and PreLaunch processes
• Ability to work with multiple cultures, functions, and regions as well as with technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong curiosity, creativity, and ability to work with different levels of the organization including senior executives
• English proficiency on both verbal and written communication
• Influencing without authority, high accountability, conflict management, leading with strong drive for results