Program Manager

Overview

The Program Manager drives the integrated execution of the Product and R&D roadmap, ensuring engineering programs are delivered against agreed timing, investment, target product cost, scope and business objectives.

What you'll do

• Translate the approved Product and R&D roadmap into integrated program plans, with clear milestones, dependencies, resources and delivery commitments.
• Drive execution across multiple interconnected product-development, platform and engineering projects.
• Ensure alignment between Product Management, R&D, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality and other functions necessary to achieve program objectives.
• Establish and manage the overall program critical path, including dependencies between projects, technologies, resources, sourcing, validation and industrialisation.
• Monitor delivery against agreed timing, development investment, target product cost and scope, ensuring deviations are identified early.
• Challenge plans, assumptions and priorities where there is a risk to overall program commitments.
• Drive cross-functional risk mitigation and recovery plans when programs deviate from agreed commitments.
• Identify resource conflicts, cross-project dependencies and priority issues that cannot be resolved within individual projects and facilitate timely resolution.
• Escalate significant risks and deviations to the appropriate management level, clearly communicating business impact, recovery options and decisions required.
• Ensure individual projects and workstreams converge toward the required integration, validation, industrialisation and launch milestones.
• Provide management with a concise, forward-looking view of program health, milestones, cost, critical risks, dependencies and forecasted delivery.
• Ensure significant scope, timing, cost or priority changes are assessed for their impact on the overall program before commitments are changed.
• Apply consistent program-management practices across global engineering programs and continuously strengthen execution discipline and delivery predictability.
• Capture lessons learned and apply them across future programs to support the continued development of the Engineering Excellence Centre.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's or master's degree in engineering.
• 10+ years of relevant experience, with significant experience in engineering program management, product development, NPD/NPI or similar environments.
• Proven experience managing complex, cross-functional engineering programs involving multiple interconnected projects or workstreams.
• Strong understanding of the complete product-development lifecycle, from product roadmap and development through verification, validation, industrialisation and launch.
• Demonstrated capability in integrated planning, critical-path management, dependency management, risk management and recovery planning.
• Good commercial understanding of project investment, engineering cost, product target cost and resource planning.
• Ability to influence, challenge and align Product Managers, R&D Managers, project teams and functional stakeholders without relying on direct functional authority.
• Strong experience working across global, multi-functional and geographically distributed teams.
• Ability to identify emerging program risks early and convert complex issues into clear actions, recovery plans and management decisions.
• Strong analytical and communication skills with the ability to provide concise, fact-based management reporting.
• Experience with program/project-management systems such as JIRA, Microsoft Project, Power BI or equivalent.
• Strong stakeholder-management, facilitation and decision-support skills.

Nice to have

• PMP, PRINCE2 or equivalent program/project-management certification.
• Experience in electromechanical products, industrial equipment, automation, security/access solutions or similar engineered products.

Details

• Location: Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.