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[Remote] Program Manager

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Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. IDEX is a diversified company offering opportunities across engineering, marketing, sales, supply chain, operations, HR, finance, and other functions. The Program Manager will lead multi-site strategic initiatives for the GSD Program Management Office, establishing governance, managing risks, monitoring performance, and aligning sites, teams, customers, and stakeholders with organizational growth goals.

Responsibilities

  • Program management and oversight of one or more multi-site GSD Strategic Initiatives, including but not limited to:
  • Understands internal and external stakeholder needs and expectations
  • Identifies roadblocks to success, and establishes effective actions to overcome
  • Establishes, educates and enforces governance frameworks and success criteria
  • Proactively identifies, assesses, and mitigates project risks and issues, ensuring timely resolution and minimal impact on project delivery
  • Monitors performance against program metrics, providing actionable insights and recommendations to stakeholders
  • Ensures adherence to best practices, standards, and regulatory requirements
  • Fosters strong relationships with customers, project teams, stakeholders, and executive management, ensuring effective communication and collaboration
  • Creates, uses, and deploys programmatic frameworks, tools, and systems
  • Provides program level leadership including oversight, guidance, and functional management
  • Works with commercial and site teams to drive growth and meet new market needs aligned with GSD Strategy, including new product development, technology deployment, and ensuring scalability
  • Identifies growth opportunities within customers and markets by bringing holistic capability view
  • Contributes to the creation of PMO goals, plans, and roadmaps, as well as the execution against the resulting Office priority projects
  • Contributes to the annual GSD Strategic Intent process, including formulation and revision of Strategic Initiatives. Provides key inputs to define technology roadmaps, commercial initiatives, and customer insights
  • Champions GSD Strategy and Initiatives to the sites
  • Serves as a trusted advocate representing both key customers to the sites as well as the sites to key customers
  • Creates, effectively writes, and communicates multi-site proposals to customers
  • May support the onboarding and development of new GSD program managers
  • May serve as an interim primary point of contact for customers until an account manager is determined
  • Other duties and responsibilities as assigned

Skills

  • • Strong customer orientation
  • • Superior communication and interpersonal skills
  • • Strong analytical and strategic thinking capabilities
  • • Ability to prioritize and manage multiple complex projects simultaneously
  • • Able to lead, prioritize and oversee multiple large-scale efforts in a fast-paced environment with proven ability to meet deadlines
  • • Superior attention to detail, organization, and planning skills
  • • Able to manage changing priorities and ambiguity while remaining focused
  • • Advanced proficiency in project management software and tools
  • • Ability to acquire substantial knowledge of sites' manufacturing processes, procedures and products
  • • Ability to travel as needed to meet with customers, team members or company events
  • • Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant engineering or science field or in Business Administration
  • • Technical experience in R&D, production, and engineering environments
  • • Experience driving organizational change and process improvement
  • • Experience managing multi-person and/or multifunctional projects
  • • Understanding of program life cycles and phase gates
  • • Experience in risk management and issue resolution
  • • Experienced in use of data analytics to drive evidence-based decision making
  • Please note this role can be remote or hybrid in the USA
  • And Canada (to those who are legally entitled to work in Canada)
  • Applicants for these positions may need to be "U.S. Persons," as defined in these regulations. Generally, a "U.S. Person" is a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent resident, or an individual who has been granted refugee or asylum status
  • Advanced degrees in engineering or technical fields preferred

Benefits

  • This position may be eligible for performance based bonus plan.
  • The role can be remote or hybrid in the USA and Canada, for those legally entitled to work in Canada.
  • Health benefits
  • 401(k) retirement savings program with company match
  • PTO

Company Overview

  • Advanced Thin Films, a renowned brand of the IDEX Optical Technologies platform, is a trusted partner to help meet the world’s most demanding optics requirements. It was founded in 1972, and is headquartered in Boulder, CO, US, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is http://www.idexot.com.