Job Description
The Program Manager at Gotion Inc. oversees the entire lifecycle of electric vehicle and energy storage programs, ensuring customer satisfaction, meeting project objectives, managing cross-functional teams, and coordinating activities from initial RFI/RFQ through production transfer, all while maintaining profitability and compliance.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage the entire program lifecycle from RFI/RFQ to 6 months post-production, ensuring customer satisfaction and achievement of timing, quality, cost, and delivery objectives.
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with customers, negotiate terms, and act as the official Gotion representative.
- Prepare and submit RFQs, build and monitor the Business Plan, define investment schemes, and manage program budgets and deviations.
- Conduct risk and opportunity analyses, develop action plans, and resolve conflicts with customers on financial and technical issues.
- Staff, coordinate, and lead a cross-functional team across departments such as sales, controlling, purchasing, quality, production, supply chain, design, and engineering.
- Ensure adherence to Gotion’s Program Management System (PMS), organize communication, and facilitate smooth transfer from development to production.
- Organize program information for continuity and knowledge management.
Requirements
- Fluency in English and Mandarin.
- Master's degree, ideally in engineering or program management.
- Minimum of 4-7 years of job experience in vehicle assembly plant, vehicle product development center, Tier 1 supplier, energy storage system solution providers, or similar industrial environment, with product experience considered a plus.
- Minimum of 3-5 years of project experience.
- Results orientation.
- Strong communication and negotiation skills.
- Conflict management skills with the ability to prevent and solve conflicts.
- Ability to work in a matrixed organization.
- Good knowledge of Project Management processes, standards, tools, and methods.
- Ability to establish, develop, lead, and unite a team.
- Strong financial knowledge, including building and following a Business Plan.
- Proficiency in problem-solving techniques.
- Strategic and analytic capabilities.
- Planning and organizing abilities.
- Willingness to do overseas traveling.
- Ability to develop strong relationships and manage ongoing negotiations with customers as the official Gotion Global Product representative.
- Ability to prepare and submit RFQ to Management when relevant.
- Ability to liaise with the Program Controller, build the initial Business Plan, define the Program investment scheme, and release investments in compliance with controlling procedures.
- Ability to take economical responsibility for all deviations from initial requirements.
- Ability to launch and monitor the program, track progress by updating Business Plan, Program Dashboard, and Budget Reports, and lead reviews of program steps and results.
- Ability to conduct Risk and Opportunity analysis and develop and implement appropriate action plans.
- Ability to arbitrate conflicts with the customer on financial and technical issues.
- Experience in staffing, managing, and coordinating a cross-functional program team including Sales, Controlling, Purchasing, Quality, Production, Supply Chain, Design, and Product Process Engineering.
- Ability to define team members' objectives and assignments.
- Experience in creating a Program Management culture by ensuring processes defined in the Gotion Global Product Program Management System (PMS) are applied at all steps and developing synergies between all actors involved in the program.
- Ability to organize communications throughout the program lifecycle.
- Experience in ensuring smooth transfer of the program from Development Center to Production Plant.
- Ability to organize key program information to ensure program continuity and contribute to knowledge management.
- Full understanding and adherence to the contents of the Code of Conduct distributed by Gotion.
Benefits & Perks
Compensation/salary range: $100,000 - $200,000 USD
Work schedule: Overseas travel required
Work environment perks: Diverse and inclusive workplace culture, opportunities for career growth and advancement
Additional benefits: Equal opportunity employment, fostering a culture of inclusion and belonging, legal protections against discrimination
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