Power Americas Director of Program

Location: Twinsburg Ohio The Business Line Director of Programs role is to lead the program teams and all the stakeholders of the Business Line to ensure customer satisfaction and economic performance of the program while monitoring and mastering risk level. They are in charge of managing program activities of the Business Line in consistency with the Safran Program management referential: PROMPT, ONE Safran and associate Group Procedure (GRP-0203, GRP-0204, GRP-0206, GRP-0207, GRP-0208, GRP-0209, GRP-0210, GRP-0289). The Business Line Director of Programs is the accountable manager for achieving program objectives of the Business Line from contract awards (S3 milestone) to removal from service (S12 milestone). This requires to ensure the global coordination by the program teams of all the activities of the Business Line to •Deliver expected program figures as defined in Medium Term Plan (MTP) •Ensure consistency with customer expectation •Limit risk exposure generated by program activities to an acceptable level During Bids phase (S1 to S2 milestone), the Business Line Director of Programs has to ensure that the program team validate the RC and NRC estimates and associated assumption to ensure delivery of a sound business case at S3. During Bids phase (S1 to S2 milestone), the Business Line Director of Programs has to ensure that the program team validate the RC and NRC estimates and associated assumption to ensure delivery of a sound business case at S3. During R&T phase (S0), the Business Line Director of Programs has to ensure coordination by program teams of technology roadmaps and associate schedule, milestone and budget. The role holder is also in charge (in cooperation with the Business Line Director and other member of the Business Line management) to ensure alignment of technology roadmaps with medium and long term objectives of the Business Line. The order of magnitudes for is role are: •A team of 20 people •overseeing yearly sales of over $150M •Direct contact with multiple customers •Management of activities evolving in multiple countries •Management of complex development Involving partnership and risk and revenue contractual agreement •Manage operationally customer satisfaction, profitability of business plan and control risk level within the Business Line •Guarantee that the program process is properly deployed in the Business Line •Ensure empowerment of program teams across the Business Line •Manage, develop and hire Program talents in the Business Line •Participate to construction and approval of business plan during bid phase (S1 to S2) •Build program MTP of the Business Line •Monitor program performance at Business Line level •Ensure program reporting (internal and external) •Ensure an efficient steering of programs within the Business Line •Be the escalation point of Business Line program managers •Ensure deployment of efficient corrective action in case of drift on a program

Qualifications:

Knowledge, skills and experience: Education / Experience: •Bachelor 10 years of relevant experience or Masters 8 years of relevant work experience •Strong track record with proven experience, including experience leading cross-functional program teams is essential •Experience of working in a matrix organization. •Experience within an Engineering environment is strongly preferred •Aerospace and/ or defence program management experience strongly preferred •Experience with managing US Military Programs is strongly preferred •Career progression both in job responsibility and relevant education/training must be demonstrated. •A strong background in managing program financials, business cases is required. (Must understand basics of finance) •A background in contractual negotiation is required •Training and experience in applying Program Management standards and tools to a business. (Program planning, monitoring and control, integrated program management and risk management). •Must understand constraints of operation activities (order fulfilment process, Turn Around Time, procurement cycle, learning curve, efficiency, production burden, cost escalation ) Skills: •Leadership Skills : Exceptional leadership along with the ability to interface with cross-functional disciplines; using excellent interpersonal skills to drive tasks to completion •Project/programme management: Fully understand the project management methodology (management of costs, deadlines, quality, etc.) and implement and train and coach others as part of a programme activity. Proven skills in managing large complex programs •Emotional Skills : Self motivated with problem solving and decision making skills . Emotionally resilient and able to work effectively against demanding targets in a complex, multi-disciplined environment •Negotiation Skills: Ability to conduct negotiations internally or externally with customers, partners, competitors, etc. and reach consensus, in line with program objectives and coach others on developing negotiation skills •Customer Management: Ability to establish a relationship of trust with program customers and coach others on this. Experience of converging the needs of all parties in the form of shared and mutually acceptable solutions. An excellent customer communicator, including in crisis situations. •Autonomy: Ability to manage team, organize activity and take decision without supervision •Delegation: Ability to create confidence with their team and empower the team to manage programs Communication: Ability to deliver a synthetic and clear communication in a respectful manner. Excellent communication and presentation skills and ability to coach others on this. •Ability to develop and coach team members in the following skills, financial management, contractual management, engineering development management,

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