Launch Manager

Role purpose - Leading local cross-functional teams to execute GKN Automotive customer application programmes from programme launch (NBAS onwards) through to stable mass production, achieving targets (time, quality financial performance) and meeting all stakeholder expectations requirements.

Key responsibilities

Project Planning
Carry out delegated activities to support the production of workstream and project plans that identify and organize all the activities needed to deliver project objectives and that comply with the organizations project management framework.
Stakeholder Management
Support stakeholder engagement by arranging meetings, events, and other stakeholder engagement activities.
Project Risk and Issue Management
Carry out delegated activities to support the identification and evaluation of risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints associated with the project, as well as the design of mitigating solutions.
Project Scope Definition
Conduct research, workshops, and other activities to support the specification and agreement of project deliverables.
Project Resource Management
Carry out delegated activities to support the deployment and effective utilization of project resources.

Personal Capability Building
Develop own capabilities by participating in assessment and development planning activities as well as formal and informal training and coaching. Develop and maintain an understanding of relevant technology, external regulation, and industry best practices through ongoing education, attending conferences, and reading specialist media.
Project Assurance
Conduct assurance reviews within the project, facilitate the delivery of assurance reviews by independent third parties, and take appropriate action to resolve any issues identified, so that senior stakeholders have confidence that the project can deliver according to time, budget, and quality.
Project Team Management
Lead a small project team; communicate the necessary outcomes and the direction required to achieve them; coordinate team actions on project tasks; request additional team member support when needed; and identify areas of improvement to build the capability of the team through training, coaching, and mentoring.
Change Management

Carry out baseline assessment and post-implementation analyses to contribute to the measurement and tracking of business benefits.
Project Governance
Ensure project compliance with the organizations wider program and/or portfolio management decision-making structures and processes.
Leadership and Direction
Explain the local action plan, to support team members in their understanding of what needs to be done, and how this relates to the broader business plan and the organizations strategy, mission, and vision; motivate people to achieve local business goals.

Skills

Project Communications Management
Works with full competence to ensure timely and appropriate planning, collection, creation, distribution, storage, retrieval, management, control, archiving, and disposition of project information. Typically works without supervision and may provide technical guidance.

Project Management
Works without supervision while providing technical guidance when required on managing projects and/or programs within desired cost, time and quality parameters.

Project Risk and Issue Management
Works without supervision and provides technical guidance when required on identifying, assessing, prioritizing and managing project-related risks.

Project Change Management
Works without supervision and provides technical guidance as required on identifying, managing and controlling project-related changes.

Project Resource Planning and Control
Works with full competence to identify, acquire, and manage the resources (physical and human) for the project. Typically works without supervision and may provide technical guidance.

Project Schedule Management
Works without supervision and provides technical guidance when required on sequencing and scheduling tasks into a project plan.

Project Organization and Structure
Works at an intermediate level to build the structure and culture of the project team, and define roles and responsibilities within that structure to enable the achievement of projectmission and objectives and the effective operation of key business processes. Typically works with guidance.

Project Benefits Management
Works with full competence to identify, track, and enable the achievement of the planned benefits and intended outcomes of a program and associated projects. Typically works without supervision and may provide technical guidance.

Education
Short-Cycle Tertiary Education
Experience
Sound experience and understanding of straightforward procedures or systems (7 to 12 months)