AI Program Manager

HellermannTyton North America; Milwaukee (WI); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

HellermannTyton North America (HT NA) is accelerating the use of Artificial Intelligence to unlock capacity, improve quality, and fuel growth across North America.

As the AI Program Manager, you will build and run a program of AI initiatives that create efficiencies by automating repetitive tasks and removing process waste, partnering with Operations, Sales, Marketing, IT, HR, and Finance to deliver measurable outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in related field (PM, eng, manufacturing, CS, data).
• 3+ years leading data/AI/automation programs in manufacturing.
• Mastery of business cases, roadmaps, stage gates, and financials.
• Strong cross-functional communication across ops, sales, marketing, IT, HR, finance.

Responsibilities

• Conduct stakeholder interviews to capture objectives and translate to AI project requirements.
• Build simple business cases with departments and quantify benefits.
• Prioritize initiatives by value, impact, labor-hour avoidance, and risk.
• Roadmap AI projects with short, iterative deliverables and feasibility filters.
• Run stage-gated delivery: scope → pilot → scale with governance.
• Collaborate with Business and IT to develop data infrastructure for AI.
• Ensure ownership transfers to business; drive change management and adoption.
• Make value visible with metrics and share AI knowledge across the org.

Skills

Program management

Stakeholder leadership

Analytical thinking

Business acumen

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

AI tools

Data/Analytics

Job description

HellermannTyton North America (HT NA) is accelerating the use of Artificial Intelligence to unlock capacity, improve quality, and fuel growth across North America. As the AI Program Manager, you will build and run a program of AI initiatives that create efficiencies by automating repetitive tasks and removing process waste. You will partner with Operations, Sales, Marketing, IT, HR, and Finance to select the right problems, deliver measurable outcomes quickly, and scale wins across plant sites to increase revenue, reduce cost, and eliminate waste. This will be achieved while maintaining HellermannTyton's Quality and EHS certifications by supporting all corporate policies, procedures, work instructions, and required documentation.

HellermannTyton North America (HT NA) is accelerating the use of Artificial Intelligence to unlock capacity, improve quality, and fuel growth across North America. As the AI Program Manager, you will build and run a program of AI initiatives that create efficiencies by automating repetitive tasks and removing process waste. You will partner with Operations, Sales, Marketing, IT, HR, and Finance to select the right problems, deliver measurable outcomes quickly, and scale wins across plant sites to increase revenue, reduce cost, and eliminate waste. This will be achieved while maintaining HellermannTyton's Quality and EHS certifications by supporting all corporate policies, procedures, work instructions, and required documentation.

What You’ll Do

Opportunity Discovery

• Conduct stakeholder interviews to capture business objectives and constraints; translate high-level goals into clear, actionable AI project requirements.
• Build simple business cases with the respective departments; baseline current performance, and quantify benefits

Program Management

• Work with Business Stakeholders to prioritize initiatives by value, impact, labor hour avoidance, and risk mitigation.
• Prioritize AI program and project roadmap into short, iterative deliverables; prioritize delivery based on business impact and feasibility.
• Run stage-gated delivery (scope → pilot → scale) aligned to HellermannTyton COE project governance; set decision forums, risk controls, and incremental results.
• Work with Business and IT to develop data and IT infrastructure and tools to support AI program roadmap.

Delivery

• Ensure ownership of agents and AI workflows are transitioned to business stakeholders within the business.
• Engage with change management to ensure AI projects are accepted, and AI becomes integrated into processes such that AI becomes “the way we work.”
• Make value visible and auditable. Track and report on program benefit metrics such as savings, improved experience, reduced waste, efficiency improvements, etc.
• Share AI knowledge to upskill the organization. Coach stakeholders to see AI use cases in the processes.

Governance

• Partner with Legal/HR on data privacy and AI use policies.
• Ensure solutions comply with IT corporate cybersecurity and risk guidelines.

Success in this role will require:

• Collaboration & Communication
• Adaptability
• Problem Solving
• Analytical Thinking
• Business Acumen

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Project/Program Management, Engineering, Manufacturing, Computer Science, Data/Analytics, or related field.
• 3+ years leading data/AI/automation programs with manufacturing operations; proven track record delivering hard dollar benefits and labor hour avoidance.
• Mastery of program management (business cases, roadmaps, stage gates, financials).
• Excellent stakeholder communication and leadership across Operations, Sales, Marketing, IT, HR, and Finance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Background manufacturing or associated environments.
• Lean / Six Sigma certification; experience embedding AI within continuous improvement programs.
• Experience with AI Tools (MS CoPilot Studio, MS Fabric, MS Azure Foundry)

By applying for a position with HellermannTyton, you understand that should you be made an offer, it will be contingent on your undergoing and successfully completing a background check through the use of our 3rd party supplier. Background checks may include some or all of the following based on the nature of the position: SSN/SIN validation, education verification, employment verification, criminal check, driving history, and drug test. You will be notified during the hiring process of which checks are required by the position.

HellermannTyton Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.