Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. IDEX is a diversified company offering opportunities across engineering, marketing, sales, supply chain, operations, HR, finance, and other functions. The Program Manager will lead multi-site strategic initiatives for the GSD Program Management Office, establishing governance, managing risks, monitoring performance, and aligning sites, teams, customers, and stakeholders with organizational growth goals.
Responsibilities
- Program management and oversight of one or more multi-site GSD Strategic Initiatives, including but not limited to:
- Understands internal and external stakeholder needs and expectations
- Identifies roadblocks to success, and establishes effective actions to overcome
- Establishes, educates and enforces governance frameworks and success criteria
- Proactively identifies, assesses, and mitigates project risks and issues, ensuring timely resolution and minimal impact on project delivery
- Monitors performance against program metrics, providing actionable insights and recommendations to stakeholders
- Ensures adherence to best practices, standards, and regulatory requirements
- Fosters strong relationships with customers, project teams, stakeholders, and executive management, ensuring effective communication and collaboration
- Creates, uses, and deploys programmatic frameworks, tools, and systems
- Provides program level leadership including oversight, guidance, and functional management
- Works with commercial and site teams to drive growth and meet new market needs aligned with GSD Strategy, including new product development, technology deployment, and ensuring scalability
- Identifies growth opportunities within customers and markets by bringing holistic capability view
- Contributes to the creation of PMO goals, plans, and roadmaps, as well as the execution against the resulting Office priority projects
- Contributes to the annual GSD Strategic Intent process, including formulation and revision of Strategic Initiatives. Provides key inputs to define technology roadmaps, commercial initiatives, and customer insights
- Champions GSD Strategy and Initiatives to the sites
- Serves as a trusted advocate representing both key customers to the sites as well as the sites to key customers
- Creates, effectively writes, and communicates multi-site proposals to customers
- May support the onboarding and development of new GSD program managers
- May serve as an interim primary point of contact for customers until an account manager is determined
- Other duties and responsibilities as assigned
Skills
- • Strong customer orientation
- • Superior communication and interpersonal skills
- • Strong analytical and strategic thinking capabilities
- • Ability to prioritize and manage multiple complex projects simultaneously
- • Able to lead, prioritize and oversee multiple large-scale efforts in a fast-paced environment with proven ability to meet deadlines
- • Superior attention to detail, organization, and planning skills
- • Able to manage changing priorities and ambiguity while remaining focused
- • Advanced proficiency in project management software and tools
- • Ability to acquire substantial knowledge of sites' manufacturing processes, procedures and products
- • Ability to travel as needed to meet with customers, team members or company events
- • Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant engineering or science field or in Business Administration
- • Technical experience in R&D, production, and engineering environments
- • Experience driving organizational change and process improvement
- • Experience managing multi-person and/or multifunctional projects
- • Understanding of program life cycles and phase gates
- • Experience in risk management and issue resolution
- • Experienced in use of data analytics to drive evidence-based decision making
- Please note this role can be remote or hybrid in the USA
- And Canada (to those who are legally entitled to work in Canada)
- Applicants for these positions may need to be "U.S. Persons," as defined in these regulations. Generally, a "U.S. Person" is a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent resident, or an individual who has been granted refugee or asylum status
- Advanced degrees in engineering or technical fields preferred
Benefits
- This position may be eligible for performance based bonus plan.
- The role can be remote or hybrid in the USA and Canada, for those legally entitled to work in Canada.
- Health benefits
- 401(k) retirement savings program with company match
- PTO
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