Director - Project Milestone Keeper

In the field of the Customer Experience mission, the Project Milestone Keeper at each milestone or review:

• They appreciate the project status according to the different KPI (Quality, Performance, Cost, Time Schedule, Industrial, Purchasing, Brand) and deliverables expected at each milestone.

• They contribute to improve the standards (Product Development Process) by bringing Their lessons learned from the different projects they are in charge.

• They will identify key program stoppers and if required, trigger appropriate escalation to help solve them prior to the milestone.

• They help/advise the project Teams to deploy the quality actions (recovery plans for program stoppers) and all the method needed to ensure the reachability of the Q Product results or Q Process results.

Their perimeter is:

• The platform projects or the midlife projects (serial life)

• The serial life evolutions (i.e. window launches) Platform

• The partnership or cooperation projects

• The new industrializations: i.e. new plant projects

To lead their mission, they :

• Manages a regional PMK team (approximately 10 FTE’s) leading the PMK / PMA activities for regional programs.

• Have a very tight relationships with the project Team (all the main actors) to appreciate the right execution to obtain the contains expected at each milestone.

• Establishes the quotation of the deliverables expected for each milestone and to draw up the milestone assessment,

• Arranges the sharing milestone assessment meeting before each milestone to share the synthesis and the quotation of the assessment.

• Arranges, if needed, all the meeting between “Key stakeholders (Design, Brand, Industrial, …)” and the project in order to find solutions for a recovery plan.

• Identifies the right method or process to advise the next projects and to improve the standards by using his lessons learned.

• Attends to the meeting to improve the method or process thanks to his own lessons learned acquired during the follow up of his projects.

• Has the assistance of a Project Quality Team to manage the activities allowing to define the milestone assessment.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering (other 4 year engineering degrees in combination with relevant experience may be considered)

• 10+ years engineering related experience

• 5 + years of project management experience

• Experience in the automotive industry and product development

• Self-directed, team oriented with demonstrated planning/problem-solving skills

• Effective verbal and written communication skills with the ability to deal with a variety of people at all levels of the organization

• Ability to collect and synthesize data into meaningful information and communicate clearly to all levels of the organization

• Strong proficiency in MS Office Suite (e.g. Excel, PowerPoint)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced Degree

• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to build solid partnerships, both internally and externally

• Expertise in planning, prioritizing, and goal setting including the ability to manage multiple projects, determining project urgency, creating detailed action plans, and organizing schedules, people, and tasks

• Assertive and ambitious nature

• Results oriented

• Motivated to learn new principles and ideas, and have excitement in applying these new principles

• Motivated to make a positive impact in the work environment and on the quality of the products produced