Senior Program Manager

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We fuse technology and engineering to provide product development solutions to customers in a diverse range of industries. Widely recognized for providing engineering, testing, prototype, and manufacturing services to the transportation industry, Roush also provides significant support to the aerospace, defense, and theme park industries. With over 2,400 employees in facilities throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and South America, our unique combination of creativity and tenacity activates big ideas on a global stage.
Job Summary
The Senior Program Manager will manage multiple programs and teams to ensure program goals are achieved. The role will interact with multiple customers and cross functional teams. The Program Manager Senior will lead program teams(s) from quoting through completion of programs, ensuring financial goals are achieved. This position is based in Livonia, MI.
As a Senior Program Manager, you will:

• Drive the cross-functional team to deliver program objectives, facilitate timely problem solving and decision-making, and act as a technical lead
• Develop timing and resource plans to ensure program is launched timely and all deliverables are met while acting as a customer advocate when conferring with departments and providing direction on program requirements and priorities within the organization
• Manage, train, coach, and mentor a team(s) related to their job responsibilities
• Ensure that timely and accurate reviews and routine reports are conducted on assigned program(s), using these tools to expose risks and elevate issues
• Ensure program(s) launch on time and meet deliverables
• Meet profitability and capital financial targets throughout program(s) life cycle
• Monitor timing, quality, technical and financial risks, and issues on assigned program(s)
• Act as a customer advocate when conferring with other departments and provide direction on program(s) requirements and priorities within the Roush organization
• Provide leadership, guidance, coaching and technical support to team members
• Mitigate risks through risk analysis and quantification and resolving issues
• Elevate and focus management attention when there is not timely resolution
• Support the business acquisition and quotation process

Minimum qualifications to be considered:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering
• Minimum of 6 years program management experience
• Experience with managing multiple programs concurrently throughout the entire program lifecycle
• Experience managing overall program financial performance
• Prototype, concept development, and/or research and development industry experience
• Working knowledge Proven track record of program management processes (Project Scope Amendment (PSA), risk identification)
• Working knowledge of program management tools (risk analyses, communication plans, timing plans, business cases, comprehensive financial analyses)
• Strong leadership and management skills, ability to solve complex problems, work independently, and be customer, cost, quality, and delivery focused
• Excellent Advanced skills in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project)
• Excellent presentation, verbal, and written communication skills

A successful candidate may also have:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a product development environment
• Minimum of 2 years of years of formal or informal leadership experience
• Program Management Professional certification

Our full-time benefits include: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, earned sick time, STD, LTD, 401K, tuition reimbursement, paid vacation, paid holidays, and more.
If you share our passion for providing innovative solutions to complex challenges, we want you on our team.
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