SKU Programme Manager

Dyson Manufacturing Sdn Bhd; Johor Bahru; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Dyson Institute in Malaysia invites an experienced SKU Program Manager to lead integrated planning and delivery across product introduction, phase-in and phase-out. You will coordinate cross-functional teams, manage time plans and dependencies, and ensure DPAP commitments are met at category level.

The role emphasizes governance, risk management and clear reporting to stakeholders. You will build robust programme time plans, drive cadence of reviews, and mentor team members to raise delivery

Qualifications

• Demonstrated programme or project-management experience with cross-functional teams.
• Strong understanding of integrated planning, scheduling, dependency management, governance and stage-gate delivery.
• Proficiency in project-management and reporting tools.
• Identify, assess and manage risks, issues and opportunities with clear actions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication to senior stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, critical-thinking and problem-solving capability.
• Experience across product development-from product creation through production and end-of-life is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional planning for SKU programmes, integrating Commercial Asset, C&A, Graphics and Packaging, and SKU DPAP activities into a single SKU deliverable plan.
• Create, maintain and govern category-level SKU programme time plans for new product introduction, phase-in and phase-out, ensuring milestones, dependencies and accountabilities are clear.
• Drive the established programme governance cadence, including weekly status reviews, deep dives and management reporting, to maintain alignment and accelerate decision-making.
• Identify and manage programme risks, issues and opportunities; establish mitigation or recovery plans and escalte material concerns through the appropriate forums.
• Coordinate interdependencies across projects, functions and categories, resolving conflicts and aligning priorities to protect SKU readiness and DPAP commitments.
• Monitor programme progress, challenge delivery performance and ensure actions, decisions and changes are accurately recorded and followed through to closure.
• Provide concise, decision-oriented reporting on programme health, milestones, resource constraints and priority actions to programme teams and senior stakeholders.
• Lead monthly resource reviews, analyse demand and capacity changes, track agreed actions and recommend mitigations for identified resource gaps.
• Establish and embed consistent project-management standards, templates and reporting practices across SKU programmes.
• Capture lessons learned and convert corrective and preventive actions into sustainable best practices and documented process improvements.
• Coach and mentor team members, strengthening programme-management capability, accountability and delivery effectiveness.
• Support transformational priorities and promote collaboration, constructive challenge and continuous improvement across the wider SKU organisation.

Skills

Programme management

Cross-functional leadership

Integrated planning

Risk management

Stakeholder communication

Reporting

Analytical thinking

Negotiation skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

PMP certification

Tools

Project-management tools

Job description

About Us

Dyson is a global technology enterprise. We solve the problems others choose to ignore, with surprising new inventions that defy convention and simply work better. We're growing fast and our ambition is huge - more categories, more locations and more people. We push the boundaries of what others have defined as possible. Our approach starts with an engineering mindset and different thinking. Then we continuously refine our ideas - unwilling to compromise and driven by an obsession for finding a better way. Our new product teams take radical new ideas and develop them into reality. They explore the limits of our technology and optimise it through relentless experimenting, testing and iterating. They then develop new ways to test and evaluate performance, to accurately position our technology against our competition.

About the Role

As SKU Program Manager, you will lead the integrated planning and delivery of SKU programmes across product introduction, phase-in and phase-out. You will coordinate cross-functional teams, maintain programme time plans, manage risks and dependencies, and provide clear governance and reporting to ensure SKU readiness and DPAP commitments are achieved at category level.

About You

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Engineering, Science, Project Management or a related discipline.


• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or an equivalent qualification is preferred.

Experience and Capabilities

• Demonstrated programme or project-management experience, with a strong record of leading cross-functional teams to deliver business objectives.


• Strong understanding of integrated planning, scheduling, dependency management, governance and stage-gate delivery.


• Proficiency in project-management and reporting tools, with the ability to build and maintain accurate programme time plans and management reports.


• Ability to identify, assess and manage risks, issues and opportunities, translating them into clear actions, owners and escalation paths.


• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present programme status and complex issues to senior stakeholders.


• Strong analytical, critical-thinking and problem-solving capability, with sound judgement in ambiguous or changing situations.


• Effective relationship-building, influencing and negotiation skills across global, cross-functional stakeholder groups.


• Strategic and improvement-focused mindset, with the ability to standardise best practice and embed sustainable ways of working.


• Experience across product development-from product creation through production and end-of-life is an advantage.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional planning for SKU programmes, integrating Commercial Asset, C&A, Graphics and Packaging, and SKU DPAP activities into a single SKU deliverable plan.


• Create, maintain and govern category-level SKU programme time plans for new product introduction, phase-in and phase-out, ensuring milestones, dependencies and accountabilities are clear.


• Drive the established programme governance cadence, including weekly status reviews, deep dives and management reporting, to maintain alignment and accelerate decision-making.


• Identify and manage programme risks, issues and opportunities; establish mitigation or recovery plans and escalte material concerns through the appropriate forums.


• Coordinate interdependencies across projects, functions and categories, resolving conflicts and aligning priorities to protect SKU readiness and DPAP commitments.


• Monitor programme progress, challenge delivery performance and ensure actions, decisions and changes are accurately recorded and followed through to closure.


• Provide concise, decision-oriented reporting on programme health, milestones, resource constraints and priority actions to programme teams and senior stakeholders.


• Lead monthly resource reviews, analyse demand and capacity changes, track agreed actions and recommend mitigations for identified resource gaps.


• Establish and embed consistent project-management standards, templates and reporting practices across SKU programmes.


• Capture lessons learned and convert corrective and preventive actions into sustainable best practices and documented process improvements.


• Coach and mentor team members, strengthening programme-management capability, accountability and delivery effectiveness.


• Support transformational priorities and promote collaboration, constructive challenge and continuous improvement across the wider SKU organisation.

What Success Looks Like

• Programme plans and status reporting are accurate, current and delivered through a consistent governance cadence.


• SKU phase-in, phase-out and DPAP milestones are achieved on time, with dependencies and accountabilities actively managed.


• Risks and resource constraints are identified early, supported by credible mitigation plans and proportionate escalation.


• Cross-functional teams operate with clear priorities, timely decisions and strong ownership of actions.


• Lessons learned and process improvements are embedded into standard ways of working across categories.

Equal Opportunity

Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds don't think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other any other dimension of diversity.

About Dyson

At Dyson we are focused on solving the problems that others have ignored; solving them first using our technology and ingenuity. In order to achieve this we need to pioneer technologies that are different and authentic. This is the core of what we do and who we are. We must strive to create the future, every single day by developing new things, different things, things that go against the grain with a diverse and global team of ingenious minds. Dyson employs 14,000 people and is present in more than 80 countries. And while we are growing fast we want Dyson to remain a start-up in spirit with the freedom of experimentation and learning, constantly reinventing our products as well as reinventing how we work, how we sell and how we support our owners. At the same time we are working through the James Dyson Foundation, James Dyson Award and Dyson Institute to inspire future engineers and pioneering a new approach to engineering education. Underlining everything we do in this diverse environment is the need to always show respect, supporting each other as one team to overcome whatever challenges we encounter. We drive empowerment, development and equality in an inclusive environment for our people around the world. The future doesn't just happen, we look to make it happen, to achieve leaps through pioneering new ideas.