Program Management Analyst

• Ensures a high level of integration and collaboration as well as, alignment with the program members in Engineering, Sales, Purchasing, Supply Chain and Finance.
• Ensures the effectiveness of the program team meetings and customer review meetings.  Ensures effective communication with the program team.  Acts as the central communication point for their programs.
• Manages the program team from concept to launch.  Ensures effective and timely scope management with emphasis on customer scope changes and executes the Scope Change process and approval.
• Verifies correct screening documents are available.  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.
• Creates high quality timing plans developed with the program team with buy in from all functional areas.
• Meets 0 days late for all Gates.  Meets all customer MRDs on time with high quality products.
• Ensures all program financial targets and budgets are met.
• Ensures effective and logical financial roadmaps are executed by working with the Program Team.
• Ensures quality objectives and roadmaps are developed and executed via their program teams.
• Ensures sourcing on time working with Purchasing to identify high quality suppliers.
• Ensures appropriate completion of Make versus Buy decisions.  Ensures on time PPAP of purchased components.
• Visits critical suppliers and / or Tenneco plant at appropriate points in the program with the members of their Program Teams.
• Other duties as assigned.

Education / Experience:

• Bachelors’ Degree required.
• 3-5 years’ experience in manufacturing industry, minimum 2 years of experience in automotive industry, engineering technical knowledge background or similar preferred.
• PMP certification is preferred, but not required.
• Experience in key functional areas: Program Management, Launch Management, Engineering, Quality, Finance, Operations, and Sales.
• Demonstrated experience leading or working on a cross functional team in multiple regions / cultures is preferred.

Skills:

• Proven knowledge of program management methodology, tools and techniques.
• Strong team player with ability to work effectively on cross-functional teams.
• Must possess (1) solid communication skills (2) ability to negotiate (3) ability to multi-task (4) solid decision-making skills.
• Technical familiarity with a range of materials and manufacturing processes desired.
• Fluent in English, written and oral.
• Excellent PC skills (spreadsheets, etc.) required.

Travel:

• Ability to travel domestic and international up to 30%. 

Physical Demands & Work Environment:

• Often required to sit and use their hands and fingers, to handle or feel.
• Occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands, climb or balance and to stoop kneel, crouch or crawl.
• Vision abilities required include close vision.
• Occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts and vehicles.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate.