Program Manager - Mullsjö

Organization
Kongsberg Automotive provides world class products to the global vehicle industry. Our products enhance the driving experience, making it safer, more comfortable and sustainable. The company, with total revenues of approximately one billion Euros, is headquartered in Kongsberg, Norway and has more than 10.000 employees in 20 countries worldwide.
The Driveline Systems Business Area is has an opportunity for a highly Energetic individual to join our Program Management team to be located in the Sweden (Mullsjö).

Job profile
The role of the Program Manager will be responsible for projects towards a defined customer and/or product group and management of program deliverables from a cross functional team to achieve the agreed program goals and objectives. The Program Manager shall be responsible for following the KA Management System, KA Management System, Knowledge Based Development - New Product Integration (KBD-NPI) and Product Improvement Process (PIP), the Program Manager will bring products and/or systems from strategic identification to running production.

The role will require travel in the support of the Programs that are managed as needed, travel may include international travel.

Areas of responsibility
. Responsible for the management of a program (product) and/or customer base from strategic target to running production, while achieving a flawless launch.
. Maintain focus on initiated projects to gain additional benefits for the business area through gaining efficiencies in program (operational, design, purchasing).
. To ensure Project documents are created, maintained and updated via PLM structure with the understanding that this is a mandatory requirement. Auditing project docs regularly.
. Always follow KA's Management System and QA routines
. Planning and co-ordination of the project deliverables
. Overview and control of economy (budget, turnover, hours, contribution, etc) of the business
. Achieving complete customer satisfaction
. Reporting project/program status to the Steering Committee (STC)
. Establish relationships with the customers on necessary levels
. To observe public laws, directives, provisions and concessions with regard to health, environment and safety, and to follow agreements made with external and internal parties.

Personal tasks
. Be familiar with the customer requirements (general and product specific)
. Host/attend program meetings on an as needed basis (weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, etc) with customer and internal program teams to ensure Kongsberg is meeting customer requirements.
. Establish and follow up on the main time plan with milestones
. Establish and follow up the project goals
. Establish project rules and best practice routines
. Organize and prioritize time between the management of multiple projects
. Follow up budget and update prognoses on a monthly basis
. Run the projects according to KA Management System, Knowledge Based Development - New Product Integration (KBD-NPI) and Product Improvement Process (PIP).
. Secure the quality of all changes (technical, time plan and economy), using KA's Engineering Change Management (ECM) or Product Improvement Process (PIP) procedure.
. To represent the Program department inside and outside the company.
. With reference to KBD-NPI, maintain strong working relationships with all cross functional teams to affect timely responses to project needs.
. To review project budgets ensuring that projects are delivered within 100% of budget as signed off at the start of the project, implementing recovery plans where this figure is exceeded.
. To manage cross functional program team's focus on all given conditions, time schedule and budgets to ensure passage of planned gates on time and in line with POI, KBD-NPI, and PIP planning.
. Actively report to Direct Manager successes, areas for improvement and programs at risk in a timely manner to ensure corrective action.

Candidate profile

Experience and skills:
. A minimum of 2 to 3 year experience as a Program/Project Manager in an Automotive OEM or tier one supplier (or similar/equivalent)
. Working knowledge of the Kongsberg Automotive NPI system.
. Working knowledge of the Kongsberg Automotive KBD system is a plus.
. Experience from working in a matrix organization, global work experience is a plus.

Application deadline: August 1, 2014

For more information:
Vicki Byrne - Vice President Program Management & QAHSE
Mobile: 0044 7739 325455
Email: Vicki.Byrne@ka-group.com