Description
Mission:
This Person will lead the successful execution of programs within an electric motor manufacturing environment, driving on-time delivery, budget performance, and maximized stakeholder satisfaction.
The ideal candidate has experience with electric motors, electromechanical products, or related manufacturing and excels at leading cross-functional teams from product development through production while proactively managing risks and ensuring successful outcomes.
Outcomes:
• 95%+ achievement of all New Product Introduction (NPI) key milestones
• 95%+ achievement of NPI budgets (by program)
• 95% + stakeholder / customer satisfaction rating
• 95% on-time delivery to all customer purchase orders
Role Competencies:
• Leadership & Influence - Ability to inspire and lead cross-functional teams toward successful program completion. Exhibits emotional intelligence, resolving conflicts and managing team dynamics effectively.
• Project Planning & Execution - Expertise in creating detailed project plans and executing them using Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid methodologies. Breaks down large, complex programs into manageable tasks and ensures timely execution.
• Financial & Resource Management - Owns the budget at the program level, allocates resources efficiently, tracks costs, and reports financial health. Ensures program delivers value while staying within budget and capacity limits
• Communication Skills - Capable of conveying clear, actionable information to stakeholders at all levels of the organization. Keeps stakeholders updated with progress, risks, and necessary changes to the program.
• Customer Focus & Relationship Management - Consistently places customer satisfaction at the forefront of their decision-making. Maintains strong relationships with customers, ensuring that product and process development and engineering and supply chain solutions align with customer needs and expectations. Customer feedback is constantly measured to score their satisfaction level continuously through the NPI process.
• Risk Management and Problem Solving – Lives and breathes risk identification, mitigation and control. Past excellence in managing and resolving unforeseen challenges in program execution - whether related to technical issues, supplier/customer delays, or resource constraints.
• Data-Driven Decision Making - All these competencies will have a strong foundation of data. Data to track key performance indicators, optimize processes, and drive continuous improvement.
• Ownership & Accountability - Takes full ownership of program challenges and risks, proactively drives solutions, and ensures issues are resolved rather than simply communicated. Acts as the accountable leader for outcomes.
