SENIOR PROGRAM MANAGER

OP Mobility • Rossford, OH

21d • Onsite

About The Position

Joining OPmobility means stepping into a global group with a purpose to keep people and goods moving safely, smarter, and sustainably everywhere. This role involves leading multiple complex automotive programs across multiple customers, ensuring achievement of business objectives, financial targets, timing, quality, and customer satisfaction throughout the product lifecycle. The position owns programs from development and industrialization through launch, production ramp-up, and series production, ensuring manufacturing readiness and successful execution. It also involves leading programs with complex assembly and manufacturing processes, coordinating product, process, tooling, equipment, and plant readiness activities. The role drives cross-functional program execution across Engineering, Manufacturing, Industrialization, Quality, Purchasing, Supply Chain, Logistics, Finance, Sales, and other key functions. The Senior Program Manager manages overall program timing, milestones, risks, resources, budgets, tooling investments, capital expenditures, profitability, and EBIT performance. They will lead multiple programs and customer interfaces simultaneously, balancing priorities across different timelines, requirements, and business objectives. This role serves as a primary customer interface, proactively managing expectations, escalations, commercial topics, changes, and overall customer relationships. It also drives business growth by supporting quotations, feasibility reviews, commercial activities, and new business opportunities in partnership with Sales. The position ensures successful execution of APQP, industrialization, validation, launch, and production readiness activities in accordance with customer and company requirements. The Senior Program Manager secures required support from functional leaders and drives accountability for deliverables across all disciplines. They establish strong communication and governance across program teams, manufacturing sites, customers, and senior leadership. The role ensures adherence to INPRO methodologies, procedures, governance requirements, and defined program responsibilities. It provides leadership, coaching, and supervision to Program Engineers and other program team members. Finally, it drives continuous improvement, lessons learned, risk mitigation, and corrective action activities across the program portfolio and maintains compliance with all company policies, procedures, safety requirements, and mandatory training.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Program Management, or a related field preferred.
• Minimum 10 years of experience within the automotive industry, preferably in a Tier 1 or Tier 2 supplier environment.
• Minimum 5 years of direct Program Management experience managing automotive programs from development through industrialization, launch, and production.
• Demonstrated experience leading multiple complex programs simultaneously across multiple customers.
• Strong experience with complex assembly and manufacturing environments, including coordination of manufacturing processes, tooling, equipment, automation, and production readiness.
• Proven industrialization and launch experience, with a strong understanding of the transition from product development into stable serial production.
• Deep knowledge of APQP, PPAP, automotive launch processes, and customer-specific requirements.
• Proven ability to lead large, cross-functional teams and influence Engineering, Operations, Quality, Purchasing, Supply Chain, Finance, and Commercial stakeholders.
• Strong customer-facing experience, including managing senior-level customer relationships, escalations, technical/commercial changes, and competing priorities.
• Strong financial acumen with experience managing program profitability, EBIT, margins, budgets, tooling investments, and capital expenditures.
• Demonstrated ability to identify program risks, drive recovery plans, and make decisions in high-pressure launch and manufacturing environments.
• Strong leadership, communication, negotiation, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to manage a portfolio of programs and customers in a fast-paced automotive manufacturing environment.
• English required; additional languages are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple complex automotive programs across multiple customers, ensuring achievement of business objectives, financial targets, timing, quality, and customer satisfaction throughout the product lifecycle.
• Own programs from development and industrialization through launch, production ramp-up, and series production, ensuring manufacturing readiness and successful execution.
• Lead programs involving complex assembly and manufacturing processes, coordinating product, process, tooling, equipment, and plant readiness activities.
• Drive cross-functional program execution across Engineering, Manufacturing, Industrialization, Quality, Purchasing, Supply Chain, Logistics, Finance, Sales, and other key functions.
• Manage overall program timing, milestones, risks, resources, budgets, tooling investments, capital expenditures, profitability, and EBIT performance.
• Lead multiple programs and customer interfaces simultaneously, balancing priorities across different timelines, requirements, and business objectives.
• Serve as a primary customer interface, proactively managing expectations, escalations, commercial topics, changes, and overall customer relationships.
• Drive business growth by supporting quotations, feasibility reviews, commercial activities, and new business opportunities in partnership with Sales.
• Ensure successful execution of APQP, industrialization, validation, launch, and production readiness activities in accordance with customer and company requirements.
• Secure required support from functional leaders and drive accountability for deliverables across all disciplines.
• Establish strong communication and governance across program teams, manufacturing sites, customers, and senior leadership.
• Ensure adherence to INPRO methodologies, procedures, governance requirements, and defined program responsibilities.
• Provide leadership, coaching, and supervision to Program Engineers and other program team members.
• Drive continuous improvement, lessons learned, risk mitigation, and corrective action activities across the program portfolio.
• Maintain compliance with all company policies, procedures, safety requirements, and mandatory training.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior