Program Manager

The Program Manager is responsible for leading multifunctional teams to ensure a flawless product launch. He or she ensures all project commitments are met, on schedule, by all departments. A PM manages high degrees of change, conflict, customer interaction and crisis management.

Your role:

• Provide Project Plan in line with customer and Aptiv requirements: Define project milestones, timeline, and project team.
• Lead cross-functional team for program goals understand and communicate customer requirements to the team.
• Manage program plan that meets internal and customer deliverables.
• Implementing and managing change. Intervening when necessary to ensure project goals are met.
• Assure clear, concise communication within the team and to the customer.
• Lead team to ensure program profitability is at or above Program targets.
• Control program execution and manage deviations to plan, define tasks and action plans to close gaps and control execution and effectiveness of these plans.
• Use program escalation process to elevate issues to ensure program deliverables are met on time, within budget, and within scope.
• Schedule, prepare and conduct project reviews.
• Indicators: Flawless launch metrics (Full PPAP, Full Run @ Rate, Customer complaints, Program Financial Results, etc.), Program documentation and reporting

Your background:

• Ability to manage ambiguity and make clarity of an incomplete picture in order to provide clear direction to the team.
• Early recognition of issues, have a sense of urgency to finding/implementing countermeasures or solutions.
• Managing team performance through influence.  
• Ability to zoom in and out. Comfortable understanding and verifying details of the different functional areas affecting the Program while able to provide executive level summaries to senior management.
• Available to travel domestically and internationally as business needs require (up to 25%).

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Prior Program Management or Project Management experience.
• Professional experience managing complex supply chains, tooling suppliers and manufacturing.
• Strong Microsoft Office proficiency (Excel, PowerPoint, Project)
• Fluency in English and Spanish
• Knowledgeable in basic manufacturing operations.
• Automotive or Aerospace experience.

Traits we seek

• High level of integrity and compliance
• Strong written and oral communication, ability to communicate with all levels of management
• Excellent analytical skills, attention to detail and able to work with high degree of accuracy
• Passion for Results – ability to solve problems analytically, creatively and collaboratively
• Play to win – thought leaders who empower those around them.
• Act with urgency – seeing every challenge as a learning opportunity and invitation to grow
• Continuous Learner – an entrepreneurial mindset that’s driven by hands-on experimentation

WHY JOIN US?

• You can grow at Aptiv. Aptiv provides an inclusive work environment where all individuals can grow and develop, regardless of gender, ethnicity or beliefs.
• You can have an impact. Safety is a core Aptiv value; we want a safer world for us and our children, one with: Zero fatalities, Zero injuries, Zero accidents.
• You have support. We ensure you have the resources and support you need to take care of your family and your physical and mental health with a competitive health insurance package.

YOUR BENEFITS AT APTIV:

• Private health care effective day 1 of employment
• Life and accident insurance
• Paid Time Off (Holidays, Vacation, Designated time off, Parental leave)
• Relocation assistance may be available
• Learning and development opportunities
• Discount programs with various manufacturers and retailers
• Recognition for innovation and excellence
• Opportunities to give back to the community
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Adoption Assistance
• Fertility Coverage

Apply today, and together let’s change tomorrow!  

This position will be based in Cupertino, CA. Selected candidates for interviews will be provided a case study to complete and present as part of the interview process.

Salary Range: $90,000 - $120,000

*As a candidate for this position, your salary and will be contingent upon your work experience, education, skills and any other factors Aptiv considers relevant to the hiring decision.

Important Company Update – Please Read Before Applying. On January 22, 2025, Aptiv announced its decision to separate its EDS division to form two separate independent companies:https://www.automotiveworld.com/news-releases/aptiv-announces-intention-to-separate-its-electrical-distribution-systems-business/

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