Auburn Hills
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
- 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.