Program Manager

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Santa Clara, CA, USA
In-Office
Senior level
Hardware • Industrial • Manufacturing
The Role
Manages customer product programs through contract manufacturing, overseeing planning, scheduling, capacity, build priorities, process readiness, factory coordination, issue escalation, and on-time delivery. Provides real-time customer updates and daily status reporting while managing financial, operational, quality, inventory, and customer satisfaction metrics. Builds executive and customer relationships, supports new business opportunities, negotiates complex deals, and drives continuous improvement across electronics manufacturing processes.
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Job Purpose:

The Program Manager will be mainly responsible for managing the program implementation of a customer’s product through the contract manufacturing process. You will also be responsible for assigned projected planning, scheduling and oversight of hardware fabrication efforts, and ensure contractual deliveries are made on time and within budget.

Key Responsibilities:

  1. Analyze and understand customer strategies, future product plans, and expansion activities to develop penetration strategies for new business opportunities
  2. Expertly cultivate customer relationships, develop & deliver effective
  3. Effectively brief and leverage senior executives on strategy and tactics to enhance customer relationships and consummate deals
  4. Establish, communicate, and hold direct and matrix team accountable for proposal objectives and deliverable to maximize operating profit and revenue growth
  5. Top Level shortage reports / CTB status reporting
  6. Capacity planning and establishing realistic commits. For example, the number of SMT starts can be supported per day or per week.
  7. Managing build priorities internally & with customer
  8. Manages process readiness
  9. Expediting units between work cells, test stations; Must be present on the manufacturing floor to expedite builds
  10. Resolving internal resource constraints
  11. Providing customer real-time status updates
  12. Escalating need for support internally and externally to resolve issues slowing down builds
  13. Timely and accurate daily build status reporting
  14. Coordinates workflow between front end (SMT) and back end (MA and test)
  15. Ensuring that performance on key business metrics achieves business objectives (revenue growth, margin performance, cost management/PPV, inventory turns, AR management, etc.) Understanding P&L.
  16. Ensuring that performance on key customer satisfaction metrics achieves customer objectives (price performance, on-time delivery, quality, etc.)
  17. Coordination of customer priorities with factory priorities.
  18. Proactively providing feedback on opportunities for continuous improvement, based on having a solid understanding of engineering and manufacturing processes.
  19. Interfacing with the customer at a high level and being able to successfully manage key revenue programs

Job Qualifications:

Education: Bachelor’s degree required, MBA preferred or equivalent to industry – Preferably in an Engineering Discipline

Experience: +8 years / CM Environment / Electronics Manufacturing

Required:

  1. Knowledge of program management, manufacturing, supply chain, and operations functions, and strong financial acumen.
  2. Dynamic builder of relationships with customers, with track record of identifying new areas of opportunity and negotiating complex business deals for mutual benefit.
  3. Well versed in all MS Office applications.

Required Training: Inter personal and communication skills, Negotiation skills

Job Competencies:

  1. An effective communicator with customers, executives, peers, and subordinates.
  2. Demonstrate alacrity, attention to detail and effectiveness.

FabrinetWest including its subsidiaries, is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Skills Required

  • Bachelor’s degree; preferably in an engineering discipline
  • MBA or equivalent industry experience
  • More than 8 years of experience in a contract manufacturing or electronics manufacturing environment
  • Knowledge of program management, manufacturing, supply chain, and operations functions
  • Strong financial acumen and understanding of P&L
  • Track record of building customer relationships and identifying new business opportunities
  • Experience negotiating complex business deals
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications
  • Interpersonal and communication skills training
  • Negotiation skills training
  • Effective communication with customers, executives, peers, and subordinates
  • Attention to detail and effectiveness
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The Company
21,521 Employees
Year Founded: 2000

What We Do

Fabrinet is a global contract manufacturer serving demanding original equipment manufacturers. Founded as a provider of complex optical-component manufacturing, it now delivers advanced optical packaging plus precision optical, electro-mechanical, and electronic manufacturing services. Its capabilities include production, process technology, logistics, supply-chain support, and turnkey operations for optical communications, automotive, industrial laser, medical, sensor, and other diverse technology markets worldwide.

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