Program Specialist

Illinois  ‐ Onsite
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Job Description:
The role is responsible for delivering the project outcomes by managing and controlling the project to time and cost, handling information flows and commercial issues, and for ensuring effective teamwork and the continued engagement and support of key stakeholders. This will include both the elements of internal work as well as other work packages performed by external partners. The role will report to the Product Development & Global Technology Program Management Office (PMO), with a strong dotted-line relationship to the client's Program Director. The project manager will work in partnership with the Chief Technologist who owns and directs the overall technical approach of the complete program, ensuring the quality of the program outputs.
Main Responsibilities:
  • Lead the maintenance, analysis, reporting of the detailed project plan for the project and manage the links to the sub projects.
  • Lead the execution of the project to time, cost, resource, IP, and contract constraints.
  • Manage the finances and resources of the program. This will require the incumbent to learn financial tools and processes, and is a significant part of this role.
  • Report progress on activity and deliverable execution, time and budget to the Program Manager and to the Program Director. This includes weekly reports, quarterly stakeholder updates, and annual visits.
  • Coordinate the writing and presentation of the deliverables documentation.
  • Ensure effective communications with internal and external stakeholders.
SKILLS:

Skills/Qualifications:
  • Experience leading projects of comparable size and complexity with a wide base of resources internally and externally, such as in automotive industry (eg, engine/vehicle complex projects).
  • Superior project planning and financial systems skills including the ability to understand and effectively manage links and impacts between the multiple external plans of sub projects.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to form a good working relationship with the Chief technologist, Technology Integration lead and Program manager - this will be a close team.
  • Clear well-balanced decision making.
  • Strong business acumen.
  • Understand the technical language of Transmissions (candidate does not need to be a technical expert).
  • Strong project scheduling software experience (Primavera strongly preferred).
Start date
n.a
From
Synectics
Published at
04.03.2015
Project ID:
861720
Contract type
Freelance
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