Program Manager

Do you want to be part of creating a safer world? Without thinking about it, you meet us in your everyday life – at home, in transit, and at work. We are at the airport, where you commute, where you work, play and shop. Diverse in our offering, our
customer outreach and in our mindset, Gunnebo Entrance Control is leading the transformation of the security business through digitalisation and connectivity for the continuous developments of smart entrance control.

If you are passionate about being part of an exciting transformation journey working with a global, multi-cultural and highly motivated organisation, this is the opportunity for you. Gunnebo Entrance Control is small enough to see your ideas come to fruition, and big enough to realise your career goals.

The Program Manager is responsible for driving the integrated execution of the Product and R&D roadmap, ensuring engineering programs are delivered against agreed timing, investment, target product cost, scope and business objectives.

Acting as a key integration point between Product Management, R&D and other delivery functions, the Program Manager translates approved roadmap priorities into executable programs, manages cross-project dependencies and critical paths, and ensures risks or deviations are identified early, recovery actions are driven, and unresolved issues are escalated at the appropriate level.

The role provides clear and reliable visibility of overall program health and delivery confidence while maintaining functional ownership within Product Management, R&D, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality and other contributing functions.

• Translate the approved Product and R&D roadmap into integrated program plans, with clear milestones, dependencies, resources and delivery commitments.
• Drive execution across multiple interconnected product-development, platform and engineering projects.
• Ensure alignment between Product Management, R&D, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality and other functions necessary to achieve program objectives.
• Establish and manage the overall program critical path, including dependencies between projects, technologies, resources, sourcing, validation and industrialisation.
• Monitor delivery against agreed timing, development investment, target product cost and scope, ensuring deviations are identified early.
• Challenge plans, assumptions and priorities where there is a risk to overall program commitments.
• Drive cross-functional risk mitigation and recovery plans when programs deviate from agreed commitments.
• Identify resource conflicts, cross-project dependencies and priority issues that cannot be resolved within individual projects and facilitate timely resolution.
• Escalate significant risks and deviations to the appropriate management level, clearly communicating business impact, recovery options and decisions required.
• Ensure individual projects and workstreams converge toward the required integration, validation, industrialisation and launch milestones.
• Provide management with a concise, forward-looking view of program health, milestones, cost, critical risks, dependencies and forecasted delivery.
• Ensure significant scope, timing, cost or priority changes are assessed for their impact on the overall program before commitments are changed.
• Apply consistent program-management practices across global engineering programs and continuously strengthen execution discipline and delivery predictability.
• Capture lessons learned and apply them across future programs to support the continued development of the Engineering Excellence Centre. 

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering.
• 10+ years of relevant experience, with significant experience in engineering program management, product development, NPD/NPI or similar environments.
• Proven experience managing complex, cross-functional engineering programs involving multiple interconnected projects or workstreams.
• Strong understanding of the complete product-development lifecycle, from product roadmap and development through verification, validation, industrialisation and launch.
• Demonstrated capability in integrated planning, critical-path management, dependency management, risk management and recovery planning.
• Good commercial understanding of project investment, engineering cost, product target cost and resource planning.
• Ability to influence, challenge and align Product Managers, R&D Managers, project teams and functional stakeholders without relying on direct functional authority.
• Strong experience working across global, multi-functional and geographically distributed teams.
• Ability to identify emerging program risks early and convert complex issues into clear actions, recovery plans and management decisions.
• Strong analytical and communication skills with the ability to provide concise, fact-based management reporting.
• Experience with program/project-management systems such as JIRA, Microsoft Project, Power BI or equivalent.
• Strong stakeholder-management, facilitation and decision-support skills.
• PMP, PRINCE2 or equivalent program/project-management certification would be advantageous.
• Experience in electromechanical products, industrial equipment, automation, security/access solutions or similar engineered products would be advantageous.

The Gunnebo Group is a global leader in security, offering innovative products and services to protect and control the flow of people, and to safely secure valuables. Through our businesses and customers in retail, public transport, public and commercial buildings, industrial and high-risk sites and banking, we operate worldwide through our 3,400 employees, 25 country locations and 10 production facilities. Serving customers in over 100 markets, together we create a safer world.

Gunnebo Entrance Control specialises in entrance control solutions that enable our customers with increased efficiency, safety and end-user experience. Our wide range of products are designed to create a safe environment without restricting freedom of movement, whether it is to enter the lobby of a company, a supermarket, an entertainment area, an industrial area or public transport. We shape the future of people flow management.

Gunnebo Entrance Control is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds don’t think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our products so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regards to race, colour, religion, origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, or any other dimension of diversity.