Bilingual Program Manager - Korean/English

JOB DESCRIPTION
The Program Manager collaborates with and supports engineering and laboratory teams to execute large, long-term battery projects.
RESPONSIBILITIES

• Acts as front-line contact on program-related activities, issues, and risks. Manages risks and issues and takes corrective measurements.
• Provides overall leadership and support to one or more project teams.
• Partners with purchasing to develop POs and manages suppliers and vendor relationships.
• Manages internal and external stakeholder communication.
• Proactively engages with Sales to establish future projects/programs.
• Collaborates with Engineering and Lab to plan the overall program and monitors the progress, and performs daily program management throughout the program life cycle.
• Manages the program's budget and financial performance.
• Coordinates the projects and their interdependencies.
• Manages and utilizes resources across projects.
• Read and follow the Underwriters Laboratories Code of Conduct, and follow all physical and digital security practices.
• Performs other duties as directed.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Business required. Advanced degree preferred or relevant role experience.
• PMP and/or Agile certifications preferred.
• Bilingual in Korean and English required.
• Over ten years of project management experience running large-scale, distributed/complex projects with multiple parallel threads of work.
• Large-scale battery module and pack testing or development experience preferred.
• Experience developing, evaluating and submitting business cases for major capital investments.
• Experience with cross-geographical project coordination and management.
• Demonstrated leadership ability, technical and business acumen and industry knowledge
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and proven ability to work effectively cross-functionally.
• Excellent communication with internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to achieve broadly communicated objectives with a minimal amount of supervision.
• Ability to promote innovative ideas and accept the risks that are required to lead change.
• Ability to make decisions independently and to assume higher-level leadership responsibilities in critical situations.
• Strong analytical, problem solving and financial skills.
• Ability to innovate under new and/or changing conditions.

What you'll experience working at UL:

• Mission: For UL, corporate and social responsibility isn't new. Making the world a safer, more secure and sustainable place has been our business model for the last 125 years and is deeply engrained in everything we do.
• People: Ask any UL employee what they love most about working here, and you'll almost always hear, "the people." Going beyond what is possible is the standard at UL. We're able to deliver the best because we employ the best.
• Interesting work: Every day is different for us here as we eagerly anticipate the next innovation that our customers' create. We're inspired to take on the challenge that will transform how people live, work and play. And as a global company, in many roles, you will get international experience working with colleagues around the world.
• Grow & achieve: We learn, work and grow together with targeted development, reward and recognition programs as well as our very own UL University that offers extensive training programs for employees at all stages, including a technical training track for applicable roles.
• Total Rewards: In the US, we provide lots of great benefits for our employees are their families. From Volunteer Days off to 401k match and retirement contribution benefits to flexible work location & schedule options we look to support our employees no matter what stage in life they are experiencing.

Learn More:
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ABOUT US
A global leader in applied safety science, UL Solutions (NYSE: ULS) transforms safety, security and sustainability challenges into opportunities for customers in more than 110 countries. UL Solutions delivers testing, inspection and certification services, together with software products and advisory offerings, that support our customers' product innovation and business growth. The UL Mark serves as a recognized symbol of trust in our customers' products and reflects an unwavering commitment to advancing our safety mission. We help our customers innovate, launch new products and services, navigate global markets and complex supply chains, and grow sustainably and responsibly into the future. Our science is your advantage.
ABOUT THE TEAM
Within our Energy and Industrial Automation (EIA), we provide solutions for safety, security, and performance throughout the energy, power distribution and, automation value chains. We work in a diversity of cutting-edge industries, such as: Power and Automation, Renewable Energy, Field Evaluation Services and Industrial Functional Safety. The impact of our work spreads through many business areas on a global scale yet focused locally through our collaborative team members.