Associate Program Manager - Automotive Manufacturing

Flex•Coopersville, MI

32d•Onsite

About The Position

Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world. A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment. If you are excited about a role but don't meet every bullet point, we encourage you to apply and join us to create the extraordinary. Job Summary PLEASE NOTE: Internal job title is "Program Administrator" Summary: The "Associate Program Manager - Automotive Manufacturing" will be based at Flex's state-of-the art manufacturing site in Coopersville, MI (a peaceful, idyllic town near Grand Rapids), reporting to the Manager of Program Management. This newly created, highly visible, and mission-critical role assists with managing multi-billion-dollar customer accounts in all aspects of the business relationship.

Requirements

Typically requires a bachelor's degree - OR - equivalent industry work experience in addition to 5 years of program administration experience from automotive manufacturing or related Industry.
Excellent communication (verbal and written), interpersonal /client interface skills, and organizational skills, are musts.
Demonstrates advanced functional skills which may be used to conduct on-the-job training and/or guide other employees.
MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) proficiency is a must.

Responsibilities

Assist in the review of program proposals or plans to define time frame, procedures for accomplishing program, staffing requirements and allotment of available resources to various phases of program.
Confers with appropriate managers within Program Management, Operations and others to outline work plan and to assign duties, responsibilities and scope of authority, and to receive technical advice and resolve problems.
Drives and coordinates projects/activities with the Customer Focus Team (CFT) members to ensure program progresses on schedule and within prescribed budget, including facilitating the work/communication across different departments.
Prepare program reports and executive presentations for management, clients, or others.
May assist in metric development and tracking for the program.
Occasional travel to customer locations.
Drive the team to look for continuous improvement activities that have an impact in the project timeline, cost or daily production activities.
Follow up on shipments to ensure we meet site and customer guarantees without any delay and coordinate the team to any issue that could generate an impact.