Program Manager - Purchasing

HITACHI GLOBAL AIR POWER US, LLC - Michigan City, IN

Full-time

Onsite - Michigan City, IN

About the position

The Program Manager at Hitachi Global Air Power is responsible for coordinating all Global Sourcing activities, particularly in emerging markets such as India, China, and Mexico. This role involves acting as a liaison between various internal teams and external suppliers, ensuring effective communication and collaboration to meet program objectives. The position is critical in driving the New Product Development (NPD) process and maintaining program timelines, specifications, and costs.

Responsibilities

• Develop the overall program schedule with sub-workstreams by function and ensure committed owners and delivery dates to all actions and work product deliverables.
• Lead, communicate and drive program objectives cross functionally through all applicable stakeholders.
• Structure the systems and data repositories used to document all program related work product.
• Schedule, run and document all program related cross-functional meetings.
• Maintain overall program timing, specifications, and cost status by regularly updating the respective tracking tools.
• Identify deviations from program targets (cost, timing, specification) and coordinate functions to develop counter measures/options.
• Escalate time sensitive issues to the appropriate decision makers outside of the established review cadence.
• Employ analytical skills to evaluate data and resolve issues to meet program requirements.
• Prepare and present the appropriate materials for the monthly NPD program review.
• Prepare executive gate review documentation and sign-off meetings.
• Guide stakeholders in the timely and comprehensive delivery of their work packages.
• Present all aspects that cannot be decided on the working level to the appropriate leadership team members, secure approval, document and drive the decision back into the program team.
• Prepare and present the Post Completion Audit (PCA) 6-12 months after launch to verify that program targets (quality, cost, delivery) have been sustainably met.
• Develop reference materials for all cross-functional organizational stakeholders that contribute to product lifecycle management (process flow, roles & responsibilities, templates, etc.).
• Execute, maintain, and propose refinements to the New Product Development (NPD) Process.
• Maintain and continuously improve program status report formats (meetings, templates, key metrics).

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, or a related field such as supply chain or manufacturing.
• 3-5 years of experience in program management.
• Good understanding of Global Sourcing processes and supply chain/purchasing activities.
• Excellent verbal, communication, and organization skills.
• Experience with Microsoft Project or Project Portfolio Management (PPM) Software Programs.
• Experience in New Product Development Phase Gate Design Process.
• Excellent people skills and ability to lead cross-teams.