Program Manager (Cavite, Philippines)
Executive search firm Monroe Consulting Group Philippines is recruiting on behalf of a prominent and established manufacturing company in the Philippines. Our respected client is seeking for a Program Manager that will lead cross-functional teams through all phases of New Product Development, ensuring on-time and within-budget delivery while managing project KPIs, risks, and escalations. The position will be working Rosario Cavite plant.
Job Summary:
The Program Manager will be expected to collaborate with Marketing, Design, Manufacturing, and Procurement to align with customer needs, optimize production, and drive continuous improvement. The ideal candidate is also expected to ensure a seamless mass production launch, provide project updates to stakeholders, and document key insights for continuous improvement.
Main responsibilities:
- Lead a cross-functional project team through all phases of New Product Development.
- Support Marketing and Design Engineering in preparing RFQ proposals for multinational customers.
- Plan and manage New Product development schedules and resource plans to deliver products on time and within budget.
- Manage projects according to a Stage Gate process and ensure that any scope changes or changes to the financial targets are raised with recommendations for the appropriate action.
- Accountable for project KPI's: schedule, product and project cost targets, quality, compliance and customer satisfaction.
- Provide overall direction and ownership to programs, including risk mitigation plans, escalations and issue resolution.
- Be a primary point of contact working with customer Project and Design representatives.
- Work with manufacturing and procurement teams in the Philippines and China to ensure material and factory build readiness.
- Coordinate with Design and Manufacturing Engineering to ensure DFM, manufacturing cycle-time and quality targets are met.
- Ensure a smooth Mass Production product launch.
- Prepare reports and updates for presentation to customers, senior management and internal stakeholders.
- Responsible for documenting all aspects of the development project and ensuring that data is captured and used as lessons learned to drive continuous improvement
Qualifications:
- Graduate of any Engineering or Any Computer Science related courses.
- At least 4 years experience as Program Manager or with a proven track-record of project management
- Perform a highly visible role in NPI development. Be a site and company advocate to internal and external customers
- Good analytical and problem solving tools
- Experience with PCBA design and/or manufacturing
- Good interpersonal skills. Capable of team building (external & internal) to drive cross-functional collaboration.
- Ability and desire to meet project, tasks and/or assignment deadlines
- Assertive, analytical, with strong communication, presentation and organizational skills in a multicultural environment
- Can work with minimal supervision
- Familiarity with Agile or Scrum processes an advantage
- PMI PMP an advantage
