From program award until handover to production site, the Program Manager has the overall responsibility of the program in all aspects:

• Lead program team as functional manager, with an entrepreneurial mindset,
• Meet financial targets (operating income, cash, internal rate of return, upfronts...)
• Ensure customer satisfaction (timing, quality, costs, product performance...)
• Plan and execute all activities which contribute to program success
• Ensure compliance code of ethics and code of management and escalate non-compliance items according to guidelines
• Protect Faurecia interests and image

The main missions of the role are:

• Secure staffing with appropriate skill level of the whole core team from the functions, in due time
• Build and monitor master schedule
• Achieve program targets through development & deployment of program roadmaps and cascade program objectives and assignments to team members
• Use business plan to monitor permanently convergence to financial expectations
• Manage the core team and ensure cooperation with the functions and the plant(s),
• Apply Program Management System (with successful and on time achievement of work packages,mandatory deliverables and key program milestones)
• Identify risks and opportunities. Ensure risk management and alert process.
• Arbitrate top issues internally or externally within the program,
• Act as official Faurecia Program representative towards the customer to support its expectations whilpreserving company from risk exposure (like Engineering Change, planning...)
• Negotiate the commercial aspects with the customers including ECR’s if needed
• Communicate and report relevant program status to secure proper management support on program issues
• Ensure that program experience is capitalized in knowledge management to improve future programs’ performance