Manager, Program Management

About the role

We currently seek a dynamic Manager, Program Management to provide leadership, oversight to drive, coordinate, and monitor engineering programs including scheduling, planning, product and project cost analysis, early access, and first customer shipment. This role will be heavily involved in leading the cross-functional teams from sales, productions, and purchasing.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Frequent interface with focused key OEM customers in providing turnkey manufacturing services
• Drive day to day operations in production planning, material readiness, shortage prevention, order fulfillment, quality control and new product development related topics, to ensure meeting forecast requirements, customer satisfaction and our business growth targets
• Cook up tasks of a cross-functional team from Sales, Production, product management, and Purchasing Departments to deliver outstanding products and issue solutions
• Aid engineering programs including NPI, FAI and ECO related project scheduling and material planning to ensure time to market
• Analyze customer forecast demands and maintain corresponding material schedule plan to mitigate potential shortages and keep fast order fulfillments for sustaining products
• Control end of life product schedule and material disposition. Plan for post-sale service requirements while preventing excess obsolescence from becoming an issue
• Identify and develop strong business models and process improvement initiatives in supply chain, production and the whole product life cycle
• Special projects as assigned

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Computer Science, or Business Administration
• Minimum 8 years of experience in the computer/server industry
• Experiences in contract manufacturing, product development, project management, quality control, and/or procurement support; technical knowledge on material-related and quick-turn engineer-to-order environment experience
• Proven track record of managing projects and delivering on time
• The ability to work/coordinate efficiently with cross-functional teams including Engineering, Sales, Operations, Purchasing, and Logistics, internally and externally, to optimize business models
• Excellent verbal and written communication and organizational skills. Advanced level in Excel and Power Point. Excellent presentation skills required. Experience with ERP system (SAP) preferred
• Demonstrated ability to take initiative, develop and implement new processes

Benefits

The salary offered will depend on several factors, including your location, level, education, training, specific skills, years of experience, and comparison to other employees already in this role. In addition to a comprehensive benefits package, candidates may be eligible for other forms of compensation, such as participation in bonus and equity award programs.