Program Manager

Responsibilities

• Accountable to program sponsors for driving scope definition, schedule, budget, and quality of all program elements; escalates decisions to program sponsors as necessary.
• Leads the program planning process, tools and schedule development.
• Reviews / approves program plans for conformance to program strategy and schedule.
• Acts as the communications conduit to sponsors and program steering committee and conducts periodic briefings / status updates. Prepares program status, program risk analyses, and Voice of Customer (VOC) collection with a goal to drive issues to closure and assure achievement of program goals and KPIs.
• Directs and coordinates resources throughout respective company functions and conducts regular program reviews to make sure that program development and key performance indicators stay on track.
• Assures that the program achieves the cost, quality, performance, production rate, and yield metrics defined during the proposal stages.
• Leads program through all stages from idea to commercial execution.
• Proactively manage changes in program scope, identify potential crises, and devise contingency plans
• Collaborates cross-functionally to establish performance, schedule, cost and quality objectives for internal teams and external partners.

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