HELLA - Program Manager

Tasks /Area of Responsibility :

Entrepreneurship :

- Owning the project by showing commitment to running a successful project and understanding to be fully responsible for the success of the project. Ensuring that the project's core team members share this entrepreneurial mindset

- Challenging the team and the organization by being vigilant with regards to optimization opportunities in the fields of project profitability and process efficiency and assigning the responsibility for these improvements to the relevant stakeholders or act on the opportunities

- Challenging the technical solution suggestions in terms of profitability by triggering approaches to identifying opportunities to increase the project's total profitability together with the project team based on feasible modifications of the technical concept. Closely integrate domains

- Building and maintaining a customer relationship (incl. "face to the customer" role) in alignment with GS on a project-specific level by aligning and defining esp. the technical requirements and the timing with the customer in the form of defined project deliverables. Establishing and maintaining a professional interaction / communication with the customer and being a main point of contact for the customer

- Making and driving decisions (incl. balancing and taking risks) by showing the responsibility to fulfill decision-needs in time, through profound balancing of risks and opportunities with relevant on the effects on the project

- Pushing for more (e.g. to exceed profitability targets) by addressing optimization potentials in the fields of project profitability and process efficiency and proactively executing optimization opportunities in the project lifetime

- Thinking out of the box (incl. sharing customer insights with program management) based on involvement in further development and optimization and in the application of new processes, methods and tools as well as how to make the customer relationship more valuable. Challenge established concepts

Internal and external stakeholder management :

- Managing escalations by enforcing the application of valid escalation concepts throughout the project lifetime

- Involving program management pro-actively by providing transparent project status reports. Sharing background information on decisions already made or to be made in the future

- Presenting project status taking account of a continuous preparation and interpretation of internal and external information; monitoring, reporting and forecasting the current status of the project's main targets in the dimensions of Time-, - Cost- and - Quality / Maturity- ; integrating the project team's status reports and assessments

Leadership :

- Building a team by identifying and motivating individual employees to form a team that stays together, works together efficiently and achieves the project deliverables

- Delegating tasks to the multicultural project members, controlling and holding core team members accountable for the (intermediate) work results of their work packages by identifying tasks to be worked on by the team members and ensuring that the work results meet the expectations; apply means of controlling and measurement; provide sufficient feedback to the team members in order to support the buildup of a continuous improvement mentality

- Fostering alignment between team members (e.g. application of the same methods across all domains).

- Define which valid communication strategies are to be applied by the entire project team members; ensure application by team members

- Inspiring and motivating a team by defining and communicating expectations towards the single team members, paying attention to the needs of the team and recognizing their performance; providing feedback to support the individuals- development

- Guiding, instructing and supporting employees in function-related tasks

Communication :

- Dealing with existing conflicts and preventing conflicts from coming up in a way that the project's deliverables are being achieved in an efficient manner; enabling the team members to focus on their core tasks

- Managing intercultural relationships and trustful relationships by creating and adding value from international project team setups through utilizing the cultural diversity in the project

- Setting communication standard(s) and rules for the project team and make sure that these standards and rules are being utilized and respected by the team member

- Sufficient communication and understanding among multicultural project members based on defining rules how to communicate in intercultural project setups; take into consideration potential communication conflicts based on the multicultural background of project team members

Target and scope management :

- Ensuring that the project targets in the dimensions of "Time", "Cost" and "Quality / Maturity" are being achieved or overachieved simultaneously or with the priority to selected dimension(s).

- Be able to focus on the most relevant deliverables (e.g. Functional Safety requirements). Align with Program Management and domains.

- Knowing the standards, processes, methods and tools in the field of project management, and being able to apply them accordingly through the project lifetime.

- Monitoring and fostering the team to comply with processes, methods and tools in the field of project-management by ensuring that the team members create transparent work results through the application of the provided tools, methods and processes in accordance with the valid standards.

- Planning, tracking and achieving commercial targets (incl. adhering to the commercial baseline), project maturity / quality targets, timing targets (e.g. critical path) by ensuring that the commercial targets (project target dimension - Cost- ) are being achieved by the project, ensuring that the maturity / quality targets are being achieved by the project and defining and assigning the work packages and planning the dates of the overall project milestones using the documented framework procedures for the time-to-market process; contributing to and requesting to set-up congruent project plans with regards to milestones and timing across the project team members.

- Reflecting on the current overall project status and integrating these insights into decisions affecting the project (e.g. - critical path- )

- Pushing and focusing on achieving the deliverables and actively identifying claims potential resulting from engineering changes. Maintaining a valid status on engineering changes (e.g. change requests) with regards to their single effects on the project targets in the dimensions of - Time-, - Cost- and - Quality / Maturity-

- Understanding the product and the manufacturing process by knowing the product specifications and manufacturing process to the extent that they build a basis for profound decisions for the project manager to manage his project. Reflecting on which effects the decisions might have to other departments (e.g. Operations, Purchasing) within company

Risk management :

- Coordinating the identification and collection of relevant risks and being aware of the relevant potential internal and external impacts which can occur during the project lifetime Focus on prioritized risks. Involving the project team as well as the management into the project risk management. Reviewing of risk analysis with experts within company