Tenneco Hiring for Program Manager at Chakan, Pune, Maharashtra, India Full Time

Job Description

Introduction to Tenneco : We are a diverse company that engineers and manufactures components for nearly every major automotive and commercial vehicle brand. We also manufacture and supply technologies under some of the world’s most recognizable aftermarket brand names to manufacturers, retailers, wholesalers, distributors and service facilities. Our products improve fuel economy, reduce emissions and enhance safety. With our vast product portfolio, dedication to quality, global reach, entrepreneurial setting and competitive strength, Tenneco is a great place to build a lasting career. Tenneco’s Clean Air Business : Tenneco’s Clean Air business group is a global leader of complete emission systems. As emissions control solutions become more complex, their components must function interdependently. Integrating mechatronics and software into a range of emissions control components and systems is one way Tenneco is working to meet the challenge of delivering innovative, cost-effective and adaptable systems. Our proprietary technologies are designed to lower harmful emissions and enable improved vehicle performance and fuel economy. We offer after treatment solutions that meet increasingly stringent emission regulations. As the demand for hybridization grows, we continue to invest in technology and utilize our deep knowledge in emissions systems packaging, combustion and thermal management, materials science and thermo-electrical energy to deliver high quality solutions for our global customers.
Position Summary: Ensures problem identification and resolution for his / her program. Ensure a high level of integration and collaboration with the plants and Launch Managers in their program as well as alignment with the program team members in Engineering, Sales, Finance, Quality and Purchasing. Takes an active “go and verify” approach to his / her program by personally visiting the plants and suppliers at appropriate intervals. Ensures the effectiveness of their program team meetings and customer review meetings. Ensures effective communication with their program team. Major Deliverables and Responsibilities:

• Acts as the central communication point for their programs. Manages the program team from Gate 1 (Stage 2) through Gate 7. Manages the quoting team during Stage 2.
• Project Scope and Risk Management Ensures effective and timely scope management with emphasis on customer scope changes and executes the Scope Change process and approval. Ensures program trade off analysis – balancing cost, time, product and resources. Identifies program risks early, develops and executes mitigation strategies and executes the Red Flag process.
• Escalates risk with mitigation strategies to the leadership team in a timely fashion.
• Project Time and Resource Management.
• Creates high quality timing plans that are developed with the program team with effective buy in from all functional areas.
• Meets 0 days late for all Gates.
• Meets all customer MRDs on time with high quality products.
• Project Cost and Financial Management.
• Ensures that all program financial targets and budgets are met.
• Verifies that the CARs and Business Cases are reasonable and achievable.
• Ensures that effective and logical financial roadmaps are executed. Project Quality.
• Ensure that quality objectives and roadmaps are developed and executed via their program teams.
• Ensures sourcing on time with high quality suppliers.
• Ensures appropriate completion of Make versus Buy decisions. Ensures on time PPAP of purchased components.
• Visits critical suppliers at appropriate points in the program with the members of their Program Teams.
• Lead, motivate and drive a cross functional team. Excellent written and oral communication skills. Execution and quality focus.
• Ability to travel.

Required Skills Knowledge of MS Office. MS Project knowledge is preferred. Required Experience Qualification: Bachelor’s degree in engineering. Experience Minimum of 8-10 years’ experience in the automotive industry. 5 years in Automotive Program Management