Manufacturing Program Manager

Manufacturing Program Manager This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with a requirement that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office. Who We Are: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE. Job Description: HPE Operations is our innovative IT services organization. It provides the expertise to advise, integrate, and accelerate our customers’ outcomes from their digital transformation. Our teams collaborate to transform insight into innovation. In today’s fast paced, hybrid IT world, being at business speed means overcoming IT complexity to match the speed of actions to the speed of opportunities. Deploy the right technology to respond quickly to market possibilities. Join us and redefine what’s next for you. Management Level Definition: The Manufacturing Program Manager (MPM) represents Supply Chain Operations (SCO) to release new hardware products and lead end-to-end product lifecycle from introduction to decline. The MPM leads the SCO team to drive overall performance improvement of Quality, Cost, Delivery and Risk mitigation. Other manufacturing-related projects that may be assigned include program managing sustaining product engineering changes, process development or improvements, or representing the organization to support cross-functional initiatives. . What you’ll do 1. Manages internal projects • Scope ranges from simple to complex, either CM or ODM based designs • Support the development and rollout of Supply Chain processes related to NPI (New Product Introduction and Product Lifecycle Management, create new process map and other documents (procedures, work instruction, checklist, templates, etc.) when needed 2. Manages project to ensure Supply Chain/manufacturing requirements are met and delivered on time, at the lowest cost, with quality. • Identify and lead cross-functional SCO extended team members to identify, communicate and mitigate issues and risks, develop schedules and provide deliverables and documentation. • Work with key internal customers to develop supply chain strategy to handle products and lead the cross-functional project team to ensure execution is aligned with the overall business objectives 3. Manages project team • Manages internal as well as external resources with a team size generally greater than 20 people from multiple countries. • Mentors and encourages skill development of project team members. • Lead day to day program activities, including setting expectations, providing results, communicating progress, balancing priorities /interdependencies, and driving resolution of issues and roadblocks 4. Manages stakeholder relationships • Manages upper level stakeholder relationships. • Communicate requirements and proactively supervise the progress, report project status and issues to internal partners, management, and extended team • Represent supply chain aspects of product through entire lifecycle with support from Product Line Management (PLM), Engineering, and other functions What you need to bring: • Demonstrates an in-depth understanding of NPI process, phase gates and Product Lifecycle Management • Thrive in an i