NPI Program Manager – PAC Product Development
GE VernovaStafford, United Kingdom
Full Time
Posted October 22, 2026
Power Generation
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- Open in the current public read path; this is not an employer guarantee.Last observed October 23, 2026
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Job Description
Are you a seasoned program manager ready to help bring advanced protection, automation, control, software and digital grid solutions to market — and support the future of the global energy grid?
Key Responsibilities
- The NPI Program Manager – PAC will lead the execution of New Product Introduction programmes across the Protection, Automation and Control portfolio within Grid Automation and Software.
- This is a programme execution role, focused on overseeing a portfolio of product development projects from early assessment and project initiation through to commercial launch. Each product initiative may have its own project manager, typically connected to R&D or Engineering. The NPI Program Manager will sit across the portfolio to ensure alignment, visibility, governance, execution discipline and timely escalation.
- Working closely with Product Management, R&D, Engineering, Industrialisation, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Regulatory, Marketing, Sales, Services and regional teams, you will help transform product strategy into executable plans and successful market introductions.
- You will act as a key execution focal point: removing blockers, ensuring project managers and workstreams remain aligned, tracking programme health, supporting decision-making, and keeping senior stakeholders informed through clear reporting and governance.
- This is a role for someone who thrives in complex, global, matrix environments; brings structure to ambiguity; and knows how to keep diverse technical, operational and commercial stakeholders moving in the same direction.
- Lead programme-level execution across a portfolio of NPI and product development initiatives within the PAC portfolio.
- Oversee project execution from early assessment, planning and stage-gate governance through to launch readiness and commercial release.
- Ensure project managers and workstreams are aligned on priorities, milestones, deliverables, dependencies and critical decisions.
- Coordinate cross-functional activity across Product Management, R&D, Engineering, Industrialisation, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Procurement, Quality, Regulatory, Marketing, Sales, Services and regional teams.
- Remove execution barriers, facilitate timely decision-making and escalate critical issues where required.
- Establish and maintain integrated programme plans covering technical development, industrialisation, validation, certification, manufacturing readiness and commercial launch.
- Monitor programme health through milestone tracking, schedule performance, budget monitoring, risk management and executive reporting.
- Build and maintain programme risk registers, identifying technical, operational, commercial, regulatory, supply chain and resource risks.
- Organise programme reviews, gate reviews, steering committee meetings and senior stakeholder updates.
- Coordinate launch readiness activities, including manufacturing readiness, training, documentation, certifications, product data, service enablement and commercial release.
- Support the transition from development into sustaining operations.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of NPI governance, execution methodology, planning practices and programme management processes across the portfolio.
- Significant experience leading complex technical projects, product development programmes or engineering programmes.
- Strong experience in New Product Introduction, product development, technical programme management or software/digital product programme management.
- The ability to manage multiple concurrent projects or workstreams while balancing competing priorities.
- A strong understanding of product development lifecycles, stage-gate governance and structured programme execution.
- Experience working across globally distributed teams in a matrix organisation.
- The ability to influence without direct authority, building alignment across technical, operational, commercial and regional stakeholders.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to provide clear, concise and business-relevant updates to senior leaders.
- Strong risk management, issue resolution, planning and stakeholder management capability.
- Experience using project management tools such as Microsoft Project, Jira, Azure DevOps, Smartsheet or similar.
- Professional fluency in spoken and written English.
- Willingness and ability to travel internationally as required.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Engineering, Business Administration or a related discipline.
- PMP, PRINCE2, PMI-PgMP, Agile or equivalent programme/project management certification.
- Experience within electric utilities, power systems, protection and control, substation automation or industrial digitalisation.
- Familiarity with hardware/software integrated product development and global product launches.
- Experience working in multinational engineering organisations.
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