Responsibilities
This role is responsible for providing program execution leadership on a GBE Release Train portfolio and managing multidisciplinary (Software, Hardware, Firmware) product delivery lifecycle from
The Program Manager would be responsible for (but not restricted to) below aspects:
- Lead a portfolio of programsfor products (including related adjacencies) for a business.
- Lead a team of project / program managersworking on the same product portfolio on related / contributing programs.
- Prioritize efforts for maximizing business impactwithin the release train and work with other release train leaders within / across GBE portfolio to identify & prioritize dependencies for the projects
- Collaboratively Manage Cross-Release Train Dependencies and Resolve Risks
- Collaborate with Offering Leadership to complete Business Case & Concept Development: Drives focus on voice of customer, appropriately defined offering-scope, and planned business case investments (for material / labor / travel / risks mitigation), influencing decisions in the early phases
- Oversee and drive Program Delivery Planning:
- Collaborate with Engineering & other cross-functional stakeholders to translate business case / MVO / concept definition (outlined as EPICs/Capabilities) into engineering deliverables and implementation plan (PI roadmap).
- Work with all stakeholders to refine estimates, plan mitigations for technical risks / dependencies, while balancing costs, resources, vendors, etc. to accomplished delivery planning.
- Lead Execution & Manage Delivery: Uses an agile leader approach, collaborate with x-functional stakeholders, and ensure first-time right execution (on products & solutions delivery). Lead execution proactively and leverage tools (and metrics) to improve transparency on quality / on-time launch predictability for stakeholders and leadership.
- Provide consultation supportto coach / optimize / match people, technology, processes, and tools, for the team to improve efficiency of delivery.
- Support Launch & Go-live:
- Collaborate with Offering & Global / Regional Sales stakeholders to ensure Marketing Communications, Demand generation, launch planning are completed in alignment with business goals.
- Ensure mechanisms for Revenue generation & tracking are ready for the Launch. Drive accountability within Product Management, Offering Leadership, Global / Regional Business & Finance stakeholders to ensure successful Go-Live.
Critical Targets to meet
- Drive transparency and predictability (early warning indicators)within the product delivery portfolio, acrossRelease Trains, leveraging available tools / dashboards / metrics(effort, schedule, cost, revenue, defects, risks, impediments)
- Focus on On-time, On-Cost (EAC and UPC) launchesfor supporting Revenue goals of the business for NPI & O&M efforts.
- Schedule, Cost, and EffortCompliance : On-time Launch, Revenue Say / Do, and continuous incremental improvement of delivery cycle time.
- Strengthen deployment of Z21 Processin NPI
- People Management: Be committed to train, motivate, and enable employees with a goal to optimize workplace productivity and promote professional growth. Critical focus areas are conflict resolution, building competencies, scaling team and organizational capabilities.
- Business and Financial Acumen: Have a fundamental understanding of markets, customer segments, pricing, finance & business goals. Collaborate with Engineering and Business leadership to drive Make-vs-Buy decisions, optimize ROI and time to market.
- Risk Management:Manage the process of identification, assessment, mitigation and control, resolution of Tier 2/ 3/ 4 risks by working with cross functional teams and respective Project Managers.
- Influencing & Communicating (Executive Presence): Great communicator, ability to influence teams, orienting them to be self-performing, and deliver business value. Have ability to communicate efficiently and effectively (written / oral / presentation) across large spectrum of leadership hierarchies to enable transparency & garner support as necessary to resolve strategic / operational challenges.
- Negotiation, Stakeholder Management: Proficient in negotiation (creating win-win outcomes) & influencing in a multi-cultural setup; Ability to drive consensus in a diverse set of stakeholders
- W2W Project Management: Plans and executes with project management principles / practices across x-functional teams (ISC, Marketing, Legal, Sales, Operations, etc); drives estimation, dependencies, milestones, and integration goals
- Program Portfolio Performance / Status management and reportingto Executives and Leadership per organizational cadence.
- Problem Solving: Follows astructured problem-solving approach; demonstrates thought and operational agility in dealing with uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity, in execution and decisions.
- : Solid understanding of engineering (Software, Electrical, Mechanical) life cycle models. Exposure to Cloud, IOT, Data analytics, UI Technologies, Embedded Firmware is preferred. Control Systems domain knowledge preferable.
- Vendor Management: Effectively builds partnering relationshipswith 3rd party ODMs/OEMs, Vendor evaluation, interface, and management as required.
- Agile: Expertise on Scaled Agile methodologies, catalyst in transforming organizational culture to bring in agility & predictability in delivery.
Qualifications & Experience
- Graduate in Engineering, or Masters in Math / Science / Computers, with overall >17 Yrs. of experience and >10 yrs in end-to-end multi-site / global product program management.
- Must Have: Exposure to Multi-disciplinary (H/w, S/w, F/w) programs incl. Vendor & Supplier engagement / management.
- Experience in program execution with Agile CI / CD, exposure to roles such as Release Train Engineer / Release Train Program Manager preferred.
- Exposure to tools such as Jira / Rally or equivalent, Microsoft Project, Configuration Management, CI, CD, Visio, and all Microsoft Office Tools
- Experience in leading culturally diverse and geographically distributed teams.
- Proven track record of managing short cycle complex programs and product deliveries creating incremental revenue impact (> Min. $10M Incremental revenue over 3 years based on business case).
- Desired Credentials: PMP / PgMP /PMI-ACP / CSP-SM / SAFe RTE / SPC
Additional Information- JOB ID: HRD258647
- Category: Engineering
- Location: Devarabisanahalli Village, KR Varturhobli,,East Taluk - Phase I,Bangalore,KARNATAKA,560103,India
- Exempt