AI Program Manager

About the role

HellermannTyton North America (HT NA) is accelerating the use of Artificial Intelligence to unlock capacity, improve quality, and fuel growth across North America. As the AI Program Manager, you will build and run a program of AI initiatives that create efficiencies by automating repetitive tasks and removing process waste. You will partner with Operations, Sales, Marketing, IT, HR, and Finance to select the right problems, deliver measurable outcomes quickly, and scale wins across plant sites to increase revenue, reduce cost, and eliminate waste. This will be achieved while maintaining HellermannTyton’s Quality and EHS certifications by supporting all corporate policies, procedures, work instructions, and required documentation.

Responsibilities

• Opportunity Discovery: Conduct stakeholder interviews to capture business objectives and constraints; translate high‑level goals into clear, actionable AI project requirements. Build simple business cases with the respective departments; baseline current performance, and quantify benefits.
• Program Management: Work with business stakeholders to prioritize initiatives by value, impact, labor‑hour avoidance, and risk mitigation. Prioritize the AI program and project roadmap into short, iterative deliverables; prioritize delivery based on business impact and feasibility. Run stage‑gated delivery (scope → pilot → scale) aligned to HellermannTyton COE project governance; set decision forums, risk controls, and incremental results. Collaborate with Business and IT to develop data and IT infrastructure and tools to support the AI program roadmap.
• Delivery: Ensure ownership of agents and AI workflows is transitioned to business stakeholders. Engage with change management to ensure AI projects are accepted and become integrated into processes so AI becomes “the way we work.” Make value visible and auditable; track and report on program benefit metrics such as savings, improved experience, reduced waste, and efficiency improvements. Share AI knowledge to upskill the organization and coach stakeholders to see AI use cases in their processes.
• Governance: Partner with Legal/HR on data privacy and AI‑use policies. Ensure solutions comply with IT corporate cybersecurity and risk guidelines.

Requirements

• Collaboration & communication
• Adaptability
• Problem solving
• Analytical thinking
• Business acumen

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Project/Program Management, Engineering, Manufacturing, Computer Science, Data/Analytics, or a related field.
• 3+ years leading data/AI/automation programs with manufacturing operations; proven track record delivering hard‑dollar benefits and labor‑hour avoidance.
• Mastery of program management (business cases, roadmaps, stage gates, financials).
• Excellent stakeholder communication and leadership across Operations, Sales, Marketing, IT, HR, and Finance.
• Preferred: background in manufacturing or associated environments.
• Lean / Six Sigma certification; experience embedding AI within continuous improvement programs.
• Experience with AI tools (MS CoPilot Studio, MS Fabric, MS Azure Foundry).

Application Process

By applying for a position with HellermannTyton, you understand that any offer will be contingent on successfully completing a background check through a third‑party supplier. Checks may include SSN/SIN validation, education verification, employment verification, criminal check, driving history, and drug test. You will be notified during the hiring process of which checks are required.