Platform Program Manager - UPP

Co-ordinating and controlling Project Timing Investments from Initialisation to Kick-Off milestone. Works with the Program Management Office Head to ensure that the Program timelines are achievable and meets MPDS guidelines Investments are within approved limits.

Primary contact for Product Planning Team to coordinate Change requests and liaison with Platform Program Managers CPHs to estimate Program Investments. Responsible for planning completed estimates in appropriate approval forums within PD.

Responsible for assessing Material cost impacts due to Scope changes initiated by Product Planning along with Platform teams and highlighting impact to business case.

Plan gateways, functional milestones and deliverables, managing constraints to ensure delivery to program timing and budget with maximum effectiveness.

Work with PD Finance and Platform teams to consolidate investments on multiple major projects and ensure timely approval in forums in order to support Business Plan decisions.

Lead the data analytics based Resource Management team to systematically analyse workload / budget utliisation data and forecast risks of overrun / additional resource needs.

Maintain History of changes to assumptions and their impacted revisions to timing and investments.

Set up regular update sessions with Head - Global PMO to review the status.

Effectively manage resources across multiple platforms and maintain control of the same liaising with Platforms / CoEs and HR.

20+ years

BE/ ME Mechanical, PMP

Create the project identification and planning documentation for the various work streams

Receive proposed work scope and deliverables and prepare consequent proposals for timing plan and budget (external spend and hours)

Communicate initiation of the project and kick-off all required project activities in project team

Review any requests for change to project scope and determine, with support from the platform team, the consequent changes to project