BU PROGRAM MANAGER

Job Title: Program Manager Type of Contract: Long-term, At-Will Hire Date: July 2026 Location: Anderson, South Carolina Responsibilities Lead cross-functional automotive projects from award through launch, ensuring achievement of customer requirements, timing, cost, quality, and profitability objectives. Drive execution of the validated customer scope, Statement of Work, OPTIMAP project plan, and overall development budget throughout all project phases. Coordinate and monitor the activities of multidisciplinary project teams, ensuring deliverables, milestones, and departmental responsibilities are achieved according to plan. Establish and maintain the master project schedule, consolidating functional timing plans and ensuring alignment with customer expectations and internal commitments. Manage project financial performance by monitoring development costs, investments, production costs, cash flow, tooling expenditures, and overall profitability targets. Lead risk identification and mitigation activities, ensuring threats and opportunities are proactively managed and corrective actions are implemented when necessary. Facilitate communication and collaboration across engineering, manufacturing, quality, purchasing, finance, logistics, and customer interfaces. Organize and lead project reviews, phase gate reviews, customer meetings, and governance reporting activities. Manage project scope changes, budget updates, and expenditure tracking while ensuring compliance with internal procedures and business group requirements. Ensure successful project launches through strong leadership, coordination, issue resolution, and lessons‐learned implementation. Maintain compliance with all company policies, safety requirements, and mandatory training obligations. Support additional business needs and perform other responsibilities as assigned. Profile Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Program Management, or a related field preferred. Minimum of 3 years of experience in the automotive industry, ideally within Program Management, Engineering, Manufacturing, Industrialization, or Commercial functions. Strong experience managing automotive projects, customer deliverables, timing plans, budgets, and cross‐functional teams. Knowledge of IATF 16949 quality standards and customer‐specific automotive requirements. Proven success delivering automotive projects from development through launch while meeting business objectives. Experience managing project profitability, budgets, investments, tooling costs, and financial reporting. Strong leadership skills with the ability to influence and align multidisciplinary teams toward common objectives. Excellent communication, stakeholder management, customer‐facing, and presentation skills. Demonstrated ability to identify risks, develop action plans, and drive corrective actions to completion. Strong organizational, analytical, and problem‐solving abilities in a fast‐paced environment. Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Project, and project management/reporting tools. English required; additional languages are a plus. #J-18808-Ljbffr