What are the responsibilities and job description for the Program Manager position at Creative Liquid Coatings?
Job Description
- Provides expert technical leadership in coordinating, facilitating, motivating, and directing efforts of cross-functional program teams. Establishes documents and monitors program goals and objectives.
- Ensures counter-measures are initiated to correct unfavorable variances through the use of the Program Launch Process. Interfaces with both internal and external resources to maintain strong customer relationships with a focus on customer schedules.
- Develops program objectives and gains support from all team members involved to insure customer demands for successful launches are met. Objectives include timing, engineering support, internally and externally.
- Documents and monitors program objectives through the use of open issues, timelines, and phase gate reviews.
- Participates in continuous improvement efforts. Researches, recommends and initiates implementation of enhancements to products, processes, and programs.
- Supervises and/or provides direction to team members and others.
- Strong organizational, conflict management and leadership skills. Must be able to work independently or with little supervision.
- Demonstrated strong communication skills, both written and verbal. Must have excellent interpersonal skills to achieve consensus among various departments and leadership levels, customers, suppliers etc...
- Competent in how to prepare financial budgets and understand the financial aspects of program deliverables, quote new business, etc.
- Demonstrated leadership abilities to meet program goals and objectives (launch key measurable and a successful launch at the facilities and outsource suppliers.
- Must be able to work on several complex programs simultaneously. Must have experience with program financials. Demonstrated ability to lead and motivate others through support, training, etc.
- Demonstrated ability to thoroughly research, recommend, and oversee implementation of new products, materials, processes, etc. Champions innovative opportunities to expand the organization’s current and future business.
- Demonstrated strong financial skills to understand, develop, analyze, and communicate project financial measures and their effect on customer programs.
