Program Manager

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Country: Portugal (PT)

City: Ovar

Worksite / Location: Ovar Plant

Job Function: ECS_Program Management

Job Discipline:

Job Family: Program/Project Management

Founded in 1929, Yazaki is a Japanese full systems supplier of wire harness, electrical, data products and solutions enabling vehicle electrification, connectivity, and autonomy integration. More than 235,000 committed and highly motivated employees in 45 countries make us one of the most successful international automotive suppliers. Join a family-owned company committed to being environmentally friendly in every aspect of its business, contributing to society, and inspiring trust. To strengthen our team, we are looking for a Program Manager in our plant in [[location]].

The Yazaki Program Management organization is looking for a dynamic, organized and results-driven Program Manager who can effectively collaborate with different business areas on a global scale. This role involves managing and strengthening customer relationships, promoting cross-functional business integration, and coordinating projects efficiently to ensure objectives are achieved and business value is delivered.

Responsibilities

Steers programs covering multiple related projects OR multi-regional projects:

• Establishes cross-regional and/or cross-carline program team
• Defines sub-projects, scope and objective of the program based on the requirements of sponsor and customer.
• Creates, develops and controls a detailed work plan and a schedule for program completion.
• Ensures that program’s deliverables are reached in time, to the required quality standards and in the planned budget (QCD: Quality Cost Delivery)
• Determines, allocates and controls the resources (time, money, equipment, manpower etc.) required to complete the program.
• Judges correctly if escalation becomes necessary for potentially critical issue.
• Takes program related decisions.

Coordinates Program Team:

• Lead a programs and Project Management Team (PMT)-members (Co-Manager).
• Assigns challenging but achievable work packages to PMT members and sub-program managers and measures their performance against goals.
• Ensures quick, open and clear information flow between program team members and to the stakeholders of the program (develops and implements a communication plan).

Tracks and reports on program development:

• Monitors and controls the status of the program objectives against plan.
• Identifies the critical path of the program schedule, conducts risk assessment and takes appropriate countermeasures where necessary.
• Ensures regular cross-functional team meetings in the projects to follow up on tasks and issues and ensures program team follows YAZAKI Project Management System (YPMS).
• Ensure that the team reports the status according to YPMS requirements.

Ensures program profitability over lifetime:

• Identifies with his team potential financial issues or unprofitable aspects and proposes alternative solutions.
• Involves the key influencers and gets support from the management to increase profitability.

Customer and supplier communication:

• Leads the customer communication.
• Supports the program team members in critical communication to the customers and suppliers.
• Supports new business-related activities and focuses on a long term customer satisfaction.

Candidate’s Profile

• Bachelor’s Studies in Engineering, Business Administration.
• Excellent customer skills with written and spoken English.
• Very good knowledge of Project Management principles and methods (GPM/IPMA or similar)
• Excellent communication, moderation and analytical skills
• Very good leadership skills
• Knowledge of Financials, negotiations experienced.
• Resilience.
• Minimum 2 years of experience as Project Manager.

At Yazaki, we are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for everyone which extends to all aspects of the employment relationship.

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