Project Manager Customer Team

As a successful family-owned company on a path to global growth, the Brose Group offers challenging responsibilities and exciting career opportunities to performance-driven, skilled specialists with solid professional knowledge and proven career expertise who wish to contribute to our company’s success.

Your tasks

• Lead primarily B-Projects from project nomination through stable series production.
• Plan and manage complete customer projects in alignment with all affected stakeholders, customers, suppliers, business units, group functions, and plant organizations.
• Independently plan and control all processes, activities, and capacities required to develop a production-ready product in accordance with the Product Development Process (PDP).
• Create project proposals and manage project changes through project closure, including preparation of status reports, change documentation, and final project reports.
• Develop, agree, maintain, communicate, and continuously update the master timing plan while monitoring project progress and initiating corrective actions when necessary.
• Serve as the primary interface to customers and suppliers for all project-related matters and decisions.
• Decide on the implementation of project changes and customer-related courses of action.
• Ensure effective operational risk management throughout the entire project lifecycle.
• Prepare and present Quality Gate reports in accordance with PDP requirements in collaboration with the project team.
• Lead global cross-functional project teams in accordance with the Project Management Handbook and defined project management standards.

Your Profile

• Able to work onsite in Auburn Hills
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Business Engineering, Project Management, Business Administration, or a comparable field.
• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in project management, including at least 3 years of experience leading projects with cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated experience in managing product development and industrialization projects within a manufacturing environment.
• Fulfills the competency profile of a Senior Project Manager.
• Strong knowledge of project management methodologies, project planning, risk management, and change management.
• Ability to lead global project teams and effectively manage customer and supplier relationships.
• Strong analytical, organizational, communication, and decision-making skills.
• Fluent in spoken and written English.
• High level of ownership, accountability, customer focus, and results orientation.
• Strong leadership, collaboration, problem-solving, and stakeholder management capabilities in an international matrix organization.

Are you ready to take the next step in your career, and take on new tasks? Then we are looking forward to receive your application. If you have any questions, your HR contact person is happy to answer them.

Please be aware that the position availability is determined by the ability of a prospective candidate to secure work authorization and travel into the United States. Each case will be carefully reviewed individually for proper work authorization under the current Covid-19 restrictions and travel bans.

Please apply directly via the Online application form.

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