Program Manager
Role Overview
Manage strategic customer programs and account strategies in collaboration with plant management and customer-focused teams.
Lead cross-functional teams including buyers, material planners, test, manufacturing, and quality engineers.
Improve key account metrics and customer experience.
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Position summary
Manage strategic customer programs and account strategies in collaboration with plant management and customer-focused teams.
Lead cross-functional teams including buyers, material planners, test, manufacturing, and quality engineers.
Improve key account metrics and customer experience.
Essential duties
- Manage customer relationships, expectations, and timely communications.
- Track account metrics covering inventory, margins, revenue, contracts, delivery, quality, and receivables.
- Analyze budgets, plan labor, and coordinate customer and company activities.
- Manage supply and demand plans and coordinate deliverables for on-time delivery.
- Coordinate quotations and ensure execution of contractual requirements.
- Monitor programs from initiation through delivery against revenue and cost projections.
- Drive quality, productivity, and cost improvements; grow customer engagement and onboard new programs.
Required qualifications
- Post-secondary degree in engineering, business administration, or a related discipline.
- At least five years of program or project management in electronics contract manufacturing.
- Experience or knowledge in complex integration, high-power applications, enclosures, and mechanical systems.
- Experience transferring large, complex custom manufacturing programs between facilities.
- Knowledge of manufacturing systems, assembly and test processes, scheduling, and program management tools.
- Strong contract, negotiation, problem-solving, pricing, quoting, and presentation skills.
- Experience with critical path and dependency charts, flow charting, and database management.
- Leadership, mentoring, business acumen, strategic vision, and technological proficiency.
- Ability to obtain Controlled Goods Certification and ITAR and DFARS clearance.
Preferred qualifications
- Multidisciplinary experience across engineering, project or account management, sales, and/or operations is an asset.
- Oracle ERP and Agile PLM knowledge are strong assets.
Compensation
- Compensation range is CAD 80,000–110,000 annually.
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