senior project manager

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Job Overview
Reporting to a Portfolio Manager the position holder will have primary responsibility for delivery of a series of Product Development Projects within the Relays Product Group. The Senior Project Manager is a prominent Project Management role with TE and the position holder will drive the successful performance of multiple high profile/value projects following defined methods and processes to achieve commercial and efficiency targets set by the business

Developing relationships and maintaining a high-level of communication with cross-functional global teams will be critical to the role. You will be required to act as the primary owner of each project and to report progress to a senior leadership team on a regular cadence and at specific key Milestones during each Project.

*Job Requirements*

• The typical activities of the position will cover:
• All aspects of Project Management from project inception to completion
• Working with global multi-disciplinary teams to engineer and manufacture relay products in a regulated environment
• Managing and being accountable for a project budget, liaising with procurement to ensure timely acquisition of goods and materials
• Risk Management and leadership of Risk Assessment activities
• Development of the Project Business Case alongside the Business Office
• Defining all necessary requirements for the Relay Product(s) being developed by the project.
• Reporting on Project status and being accountable for project progress against the Plan
• Escalation of issues as applicable and utilisation of project change controls
• Liaising with customers and suppliers global
• Initial Priority Primary project work for the first two-to-three years will be factory migration and re-qualification efforts for multiple relay product lines. The TE New Product Development process will be followed. You will be expected to cross-check to global PMO to ensure process adherence and also to global engineering teams to facilitate peer-review of design changes.

Required Skills
The ideal candidate will have eight or more years proven experience of leadership through multiple projects including those within a regulated field. They will have a track record of successful delivery of customer-facing hardware development projects following a Stage Gate process in a product development / manufacturing environment.

Key Requirements

• Excellent written and spoken English
• Strong interpersonal, negotiating and influencing skills and the ability to build strong, credible relationships with multiple organisation functions (internal and external)
• Able to take ownership of each project and drive good decisions in a non-matrixed leadership position to deliver results
• Clear strategic thinker with the ability to execute on priorities
• Self-motivated with the ability to perform in a demanding environment
• Strong communication, negotiation, and presentation skills including at senior levels
• Excellent organisational, time management and administrative skills
• Good level of IT capability with detailed experience of Microsoft Office (MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint, Word)

Other Beneficial Requirements

• Project Management Professional (e.g. PMP, Prince 2)
• A professional level of business acumen and good commercial understanding
• Results driven
• The ability to tailor critical information and communication to different audiences
• Experience with Planisware
• Technical and commercial education/experience related to Engineering and/or Manufacturing in a similar regulated industry

*Competencies*
SET : Strategy, Execution, Talent (for managers)