A production plant of an automotive supplier acquired a project for the the new platform. Completely new products to be manufactured. The project required co-ordination of R&D, technology, production, suppliers/purchasing and logistics.

The Program manager was responsible for all activities necessary in order to launch a product from customer nomination until launch and running smoothly in production. He was required to manage more than one program simultaneously over a number of locations.

The holder was accountable for:

• Planning, organization and target setting:
• Set up / maintains program structure (timing, team, budget), plans required resource
• Cascades agreed program targets to team members
• Generates program timing / planning according to customer milestones and internal
• Controlling / Managing / Problem Solving
• Systematically manages program risks
• Empowered to take any decision required for the program (within defined limits)
• Solves conflicts at his level and within the team
• Escalates issues to management that cannot be solved within team
• Task Execution
• Integrates lessons learned from previous programs
• Prototype order processing for programs
• Communication and Reporting
• Communicates to customer (timing, program status, change management)

Length: 6 months (prolonged)
Capacity: full

The role was handed over with a proper training to a Project manager just in a SOP time.