EXTERIOR & LIGHTING BUSINESS GROUP
Position title: Program Manager
Work instructions, procedures and information
Knowledge / Qualifications
University Engineering or Business Degree
Previous Experience (If relevant)
8-12 years’ experience in Automotive industry – commercial, industrial or engineering background
Key technical competencies
Automotive global requirements.
IATF16949 & Customer specific requirements.
Key behavioral competencies (be customer–centric, cultivate innovation, act with audacity, drive results, collaborate, drive engagement, value differences, be resilient, develop yourself)
Team playing, leadership, communication skills and rigor. Ability to federate teams, define and actively lead a cross departmental plan to achieve results.
Missions
Main Missions
Manage and delivers the project (PO and Customer) objectives and deliverables.
Responsible for the project profitability
Manage the complete development budget and cash-flow for the entire project.
Delivers a non-event launch of the project into production
KPI and/or main deliverables
Represents PO at the customer and represents the customer in PO
Promote EHS and quality requirements internally and externally
Project objectives (EHS, Development Result, Hours, NPV, Gross / Material Margins, cash at SOP, OPTIMAP project plan achievement, Launch Readiness, customer approval timing and OPTIMAP IS tools completion)
Activities
Project Definition
Ensures the OPTIMAP Project plan and total development budget is in accordance with the agreed Customer Statement Of Work and validated project scope
Leads the core team member’s OPTIMAP work packages and their agreed development budgets, in agreement with the project objectives and the project scope
Establishes and manages the master project timing plan and consolidates negotiated planning of each core team member ensuring it conforms to the customer and OPTIMAP timing plans
Responsible for the profitability of the project and sets the core team members targets to work towards in line with the project objectives. (Development hours, PRU, investments, cash-flow, Costs of Non Quality)
Follows and applies the direction of the division 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 OPTIMAP Project Plan, consolidates the global project status and ensures that the core teams are accountable for their status for the deliverables completion in the division Information Systems
Manages and identifies deviations from the planned Project Plan and validates the actions proposed by the core team members to realign
Responsible for organising project meetings, project reviews and end of phase reviews with all core team members to review project status and project action plan follow-up
Prepares and presents the gateway reports to the OPTIMAP committee and, in anticipation of the gate event, issues the gate validation report
Consolidates the threats and opportunities of each department, prioritises and manages the action plan to respond to the risks throughout the project phases
Responsible for the financial control / reporting of the project budget using the standard division tools to consolidate and reporting cash-flow and profitability to program reviews
Split of the project development budget by department and delegation to the core team members for their financial control / reporting (excluding payment/expenditure authorization)
Manages the scope change (internal / external) process and ensures the project budget is updated (hours, investment and production costs)
Manages project development expenditure versus the planned budget, identifies any deviation (hours, investments and production costs), and takes appropriate actions to realign
Manages the project cash-flow, including tooling and other costs. Only project team member who can authorize payment to suppliers respecting POs procedures and terms
Responsible for ensuring the contribution and actions of all project team members to achieve a non-event launch
Challenges that the optimum technical and manufacturing solutions / choices are made by the project team to meet the design to cost project objectives
Provides 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
Ensures the coordination of the project team, communication management, project meeting organization, conflict resolution and building an effective team
Ensures the project team applies the methodology of development - OPTIMAP 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
Responsible to ensure the project team apply company standards and best practices as defined by each department to maximise the productivity of the development budget
Ensures the health and safety of the project team and the respect of 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
Is Plastic Omnium’s accountable representative of the project for the customer
With the support of the PQL ensures the actions of the customer APQP process and final customer validation files (PPAP, PSW...) are cascaded and managed through the project team
Responsible for the coordination / management of all the project team members’ communications to the customer and ensure the core team members take their responsibility in front of the customer
Is responsible for ensuring that all the customer deliverables (customer approval, APQP, build deliveries etc.) are managed and delivered by the project team and reports the progress to the customer in line with the agreed Statement Of Work.
Identifies to the Commercial Project Manager and the customer, customer scope changes to the agreed Customer Statement of Work in accordance to the budget of development (hours, travel costs, costs / hour) and the OPTIMAP project plan.
Supports the Commercial Project Manager in the negotiation of customer scope changes.
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.
Cascading / be a mentor for another junior program manager
Date: Jul 17, 2026
Location:
Pune, IN
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Job Requisition ID: 389508
