Senior Program Manager

Senior Program Manager

The Senior Program Management will be responsible for managing PMO teams and overseeing programs from concept through launch. This position will present the status of each program to management including milestone planning, deliverables, launch readiness, risk assessment, and will coordinate Gate reviews. This role will lead a multi-disciplinary team to achieve Real Truck organizational goals within budget. This position will track and ensure the health of related projects as they correlate to the successful implementation and maintenance of the program lifecycle.

Core functions include implementing and maintaining program initiatives that adhere to organizational objectives, overseeing multiple project teams, supporting financial goals by forecasting program requirements, leading weekly cross-functional team meetings, leading and engaging in troubleshooting with the team, assuring adherence to corporate APQP process deliverables, preparing and completing action plans, working closely with the Product Category sponsor, managing program and project teams for optimal return on investment, working with other program managers to identify risks and opportunities, analyzing, evaluating, and overcoming program risks, and producing program reports for managers and stakeholders.

Qualifications and requirements include a Bachelor's degree, preferably in Engineering, manufacturing, or business, 9+ years of experience in Program Management and PM leadership, minimum 8+ years of experience in people management in a PMO and in support of an NPD process, experience managing cross functional teams and matrix style organizations, PMP certification is preferred, firm grasp of APQP principles, proficiency with standard software applications, ability to effectively present information to top management, familiar with common business practices, financial calculations, and ability to track program costs, strong problem-solving skills, excellent leadership and teambuilding skills, ability to identify key requirements needed from cross-functional teams and external vendors, ability to analyze, evaluate, and overcome program risks, ability to drive the cross functional team to accomplish program maintenance while utilizing the RealTruck Program Management Process and disciplines, strong, professional verbal and written communication skills, occasional travel is required, approximately 20-25% to meet supplier and internal/external customer needs, ability to travel to supporting plants in the US and Canada and potentially Mexico.

Competencies include adapting to changes in the work environment, managing competing demands, changes approach or method to best fit the situation, able to deal with frequent change, delays, or unexpected events, volunteers readily, undertakes self-development activities, seeks increased responsibilities, takes independent actions and calculated risks, looks for and takes advantage of opportunities, asks for and offers help when needed, focuses on solving conflict, not blaming, maintains confidentiality, listens to others without interrupting, keeps emotions under control, remains open to others' ideas and tries new things, displays willingness to make decisions, exhibits sound and accurate judgment, supports and explains reasoning for decisions, includes appropriate people in decision-making process, makes timely decisions, identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner, gathers and analyzes information skillfully, develops alternative solutions, works well in group problem solving situations, uses reason even when dealing with emotional topics, speaks clearly and persuasively in positive or negative situations, listens and gets clarification, responds well to questions, demonstrates group presentation skills, participates in meetings, writes clearly and informatively, edits work for spelling and grammar, varies writing style to meet needs, presents numerical data effectively, able to read and interpret written information.

Supervisor responsibilities include working team member who coordinates, supports, trains, and is a knowledge resource for other team members. No direct reports or supervisory responsibility.

Physical requirements include sedentary work, exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, sitting most of the time, walking and standing are required only occasionally, standing, walking, talking, hearing, and the use of hands, wrists, or fingers in a repetitive motion, close visual acuity to perform an activity such as preparing and analyzing data and figures, transcribing, viewing a computer terminal, expansive reading, visual inspection involving small defects, small parts and/or operation of machines, using measurement devices, and/or assembly of fabrication of parts at distances close to the eyes.

Working conditions include operating in an office environment, routinely uses standard office equipment.