Since 1965, Stoneridge has designed and manufactured advanced, award-winning technologies including driveline and transmission actuation systems, vision systems, emissions control systems, safety systems, and security and monitoring systems for vehicle OEMs in the commercial vehicle, automotive, off-highway and agricultural vehicle markets. We’re focused on the areas of greatest market need – both today and tomorrow. Our core products and technologies are aligned with industry megatrends including safety and security, vehicle intelligence, fuel efficiency and emissions. Join the Stoneridge Team as we continue to build upon our strong history and reputation for quality products to deliver innovative products and systems that address a need, exceed our customers’ expectations, and motivate our team.
Senior Technical Program Manager
Job Summary:
This position will manage programs being executed by the Advanced Product Development (APD) Team. The APD Team is a highly skilled, nimble engineering team reporting to the Chief Technology Officer. The program manager will lead global cross-functional teams to plan, execute, monitor and control product development and launch programs. The candidate filling this position will be responsible to direct and manage project work to meet all program requirements and deliverables. The role requires interface at all levels for all aspects of planning, scheduling, organizing, directing, monitoring, and controlling the programs.
Responsibilities:
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Leadership: Lead, develop, and motivate the Advanced Product Development team to meet quality, scope, cost, timing, and operational targets using the established Advanced Product Development Process. Provide mentoring and coaching. Resolve conflicts. Facilitate root cause identification and corrective action implementation. Negotiate with internal and external groups, vendors and customer. Align program with strategic direction.
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Communication: (central communication point for the project): Enable efficient and effective information flow between the project team and stakeholders. Ensure each team member is constantly aware of their deliverables and timing commitments. Establish meeting cadence, create agenda, publish notes and actions, and keep meetings on task.
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Scope / Change Management: (owner scope management): Maintain, along with engineering, customer and project requirements list and document summary (e.g. SOW). Communicate requirements to applicable functions. Document, communicate, and manage approval of changes and impact (cost, timing, scope, risks, etc.).
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Schedule: (own project performance to plan; identify and manage constraints.) Support development, approval, and management of Project Charter and Project requirements. Develop and manage timeline based on customer and functional team requirements, and the Stoneridge launch process. Manage cross-functional resources and completion of deliverables to maintain project timing. Track and report performance to baseline timing plan.
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Cost: (own execution of project to budget): Work with project team and commercial managers to define project budget, product cost, and develop PAR for approval. Manage, monitor and report project financial status vs baseline (budget / quote / PAR) through life of project. Ensure the product(s) meets BOM cost targets.
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Quality: Manage the team to define key program metrics to ensure product robustness to meet scope requirements. Including review quality of gate deliverables, Advanced DV testing results, application requirements / testing / performance, production line R@R, process capability, etc. Support throughout prototype and pre-production builds.
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Risk Management: Support identification and tracking of identified program risk items. Ensure cross-functional involvement in risk identification, ranking, and mitigation. Anticipate risk caused by late tasks and changes by developing mitigation strategy.
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Product Design: Manage the team to meet design objectives (specifications, functional expectations, industry requirements), and develop action plans to address gaps. Audit customer samples for customer satisfaction. Manage prototype build and testing schedule. Audit Concept Verification and Advanced DV testing results and corrective actions.
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Customer Satisfaction: Foster an effective personal working relationship with appropriate customer contacts as key contact for program implementation. Meet dates and commitments via customer open issues list which direct team priorities. Maintain regular contact with customer to communicate problems early. Do not avoid difficult issues or decisions. Understand customer’s organization and procedures in detail.
Qualifications:
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Technical Undergraduate Degree required. Master’s Degree in Business strongly desired. PMP Certification preferred.
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Five (5) years automotive experience in Program Management.
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Strong business acumen, drive and sense of accountability to deliver results.
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Organized, structured way of working, applying a holistic view with attention to details.
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Ability to step into a difficult situation, prepare relevant data, perform root cause analysis and plan for way forward quickly.
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Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, manage tight deadlines and work under pressure.
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Team player with excellent communication skills.
Stoneridge is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, marital status, mental or physical disability, genetic information, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by the applicable laws in the countries we operate. Stoneridge also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories.