Assistant Program Manager

flextronics; George Town; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental

Vision

Life Insurance

Paid Time Off

Allowances & Bonuses

Job summary

Flex is seeking a Program Manager to join our Penang team in Prai. You will guide cross-functional teams to deliver customer-focused products and services, shaping project, pricing and program strategies to sustain business value.

The role requires overseeing schedules, budgets, metrics, and resource planning, while maintaining strong customer relations and steering negotiations as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 8 years in program administration/management or related area.
• Advanced operations, technical, people and/or process skills; strong customer relationships.

Responsibilities

• Organize, plan and direct program schedules and budgets.
• In charge of tracking relevant metrics and drive actions based on results.
• Lead contract negotiations as required.
• Oversee interdepartmental activities ensuring timelines, delivery and quality.
• Review proposals to align funding, staffing and resources.

Skills

Program management

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field

Job description

Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world.

A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment. If you are excited about a role but don't meet every bullet point, we encourage you to apply and join us to create the extraordinary.

Job Summary

To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add aProgram Managerlocated inPrai, Penang.

In this role, you will be In-charge of guiding a team of cross functional experts in the delivery of customer-focused products and services and will hold up development and implementation of a project, pricing and program strategies in order to continue to deliver value to the business and its customers.

What a typical day looks like:

• Organize, plan and direct program schedules and budgets.

• In charge of tracking relevant metrics and drive action items based on results.

• Provide help, knowledge and expertise with contract negotiations as required.

• Oversee all interdepartmental activities ensuring completion of all adherences made relative a to product development timelines, delivery, quality and the required business metrics.

• Reviews program proposal or plan to resolve time frame, funding requirements, procedures for accomplishing program, staffing requirements and allotment of available resources to various phases of program.

• Establishes work plan and staffing for each phase of program and arranges for recruitment or assignment of personnel.

• Manage the coordination of product life cycle activities with P&L and customer satisfaction also has control for different accounts of various complexities.

• Be the key channel of communication for customers and act as escalation in the event of customer issues.

• In charge of customer´s satisfaction reviews and corrective actions.

• Maintain current and develop additional business with customers.

• Monitor and track that project and program deliverables are met.

• Be accountable for maintaining excellent customer relations with both new and existing customers.

• Holds up production sites for projects, costs and other customer related matters through business and expertise.

The experience we’re looking to add to our team:

• Typically requires a Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field or equivalent experience.

• Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of experience in program administration/management or related area.

• Demonstrates advanced operations, technical and people and/or process skills as well as customer (external and internal) relationship skills.

• Demonstrates knowledge of multiple functional technologies/ processes, industries or functions and understanding of interdependencies of such processes at the site.

• Accountability for the program wellness.

• Demonstrates expert knowledge of the function and a thorough understanding of Flex and related business.

• Demonstrates detailed expertise in very complex functional/ technical area or broad breadth of knowledge in multiple areas.

• Understands the strategic impact of the function across sites.

• Prior experience in EMS industry is preferred.

What you’ll receive for the great work you provide:

• Full range of medical benefits, dental, vision

• Life Insurance

• Paid Time Off

• Allowances & Bonuses

FA22

Job Category

Operations

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Optional Skills:

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