Program Manager

About the role

The GSD Program Management Office (PMO) is responsible for organizational alignment with the GSD growth goal and approach. Through leveraging a deep appreciation of the objectives and needs of GSD’s most demanding customers and highest risk initiatives, the PMO is uniquely positioned to create and deploy effective frameworks, systems, and program managers to defend GSD’s Big Bet strategy so that GSD can fulfill its Strategic Growth Intent.

Responsibilities

• Program management and oversight of one or more multi-site GSD Strategic Initiatives, including but not limited to:
• Understands internal and external stakeholder needs and expectations
• Identifies roadblocks to success, and establishes effective actions to overcome
• Establishes, educates and enforces governance frameworks and success criteria
• Proactively identifies, assesses, and mitigates project risks and issues, ensuring timely resolution and minimal impact on project delivery
• Maintains performance against program metrics, providing actionable insights and recommendations to stakeholders
• Ensures adherence to best practices, standards, and regulatory requirements
• Fosters strong relationships with customers, project teams, stakeholders, and executive management, ensuring effective communication and collaboration
• Creates, uses, and deploys programmatic frameworks, tools, and systems
• Provides program level leadership including oversight, guidance, and functional management
• Works with commercial and site teams to drive growth and meet new market needs aligned with GSD Strategy, including new product development, technology deployment, and ensuring scalability
• Identifies growth opportunities within customers and markets by bringing holistic capability view
• Contributes to the creation of PMO goals, plans, and roadmaps, as well as the execution against the resulting Office priority projects
• Contributes to the annual GSD Strategic Intent process, including formulation and revision of Strategic Initiatives
• Provides key inputs to define technology roadmaps, commercial initiatives, and customer insights
• Champions GSD Strategy and Initiatives to the sites
• Serves as a trusted advocate representing both key customers to the sites as well as the sites to key customers
• Creates, effectively writes, and communicates multi-site proposals to customers
• May support the onboarding and development of new GSD program managers
• May serve as an interim primary point of contact for customers until an account manager is determined

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Strong customer orientation
• Superior communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong analytical and strategic thinking capabilities
• Able to prioritize and manage multiple complex projects simultaneously
• Able to lead, prioritize and oversee multiple large-scale efforts in a fast-paced environment with proven ability to meet deadlines
• Advanced proficiency in project management software and tools
• Able to acquire substantial knowledge of sites’ manufacturing processes, procedures and products
• Able to manage changing priorities and ambiguity while remaining focused
• Advanced proficiency in data analytics to drive evidence-based decision making

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant engineering or science field or in Business Administration
• Advanced degrees in engineering or technical fields preferred
• Technical experience in R&D, production, and engineering environments
• Experience driving organizational change and process improvement
• Experience managing multi-person and/or multifunctional projects
• Understanding of program life cycles and phase gates
• Experience in risk management and issue resolution
• Experienced in use of data analytics to drive evidence-based decision making

Qualifications

• Certain positions with IDEX Corporation and its business units require access to controlled goods and technologies subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations or the Export Administration Regulations. Applicants for these positions may need to be 'U.S. Persons,' as defined in these regulations.
• A 'U.S. Person' is a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent resident, or an individual who has been granted refugee or asylum status.

Total Rewards

The compensation range for this position is $97,000.00 - $145,400.00, depending on experience. This position may be eligible for performance based bonus plan.

Benefits Package

Our comprehensive U.S. benefit offerings include: Health benefits, 401(k) retirement savings program with company match, PTO, and more. More information on our benefits and rewards can be found on our career page: here.

Equal Opportunity Employer

IDEX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. IDEX gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other consideration or protected category made unlawful by federal, state or local laws.