Manager - Program Management

What you'll do:

• The Manager - Program Management is responsible for leading a team of program managers to ensure successful execution of a cross-functional project portfolio for supply chain This includes governance of timelines, risk/issue management, stakeholder alignment, and driving operational excellence through continuous improvement
• The role acts as the senior escalation point for program-level challenges and ensures disciplined program execution in alignment with business goals
• This role is also responsible to lead continous improvement and process discipline efforts and should challenge the status quo and build a sense of urgency and ownership on projects and cross functions involved
• Team Leadership & People Management
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of ~10 program management professionals, ensuring capability building, skills development, and succession readiness

• Oversee end-to-end delivery of the program portfolio, ensuring adherence to scope, schedule, cost, and quality expectations

• Build strong relationships with regional leaders, category leads, plant leadership, and cross-functional teams-drawing from your experience driving multi-stakeholder alignment on ESSP, and other procurment excellence tools

• Serve as the primary point of escalation for internal and external stakeholders, ensuring timely resolution of issues and removal of roadblocks

• Drive process standardization and continuous improvement initiatives across the program management function, aligned with Eaton Business System (EBS) practices

• Deliver executive-level reporting, status dashboards, and program summaries to leadership

• Ensure all programs adhere to internal processes - ESSP, Should cost, TCO, CRA-SRA, DSFRA, stage-gate criteria, and documentation standards

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management or Engineering preferably Electrical/Electronics
• Minimum 12-14 years' of professional experience with 7+ year relevant experience in Project / Program Management and strategic sourcing.
• PMP/PgmP prefered

• Identify opportunities to improve cycle times, program visibility, and stakeholder experienceEnsures compliance with regards to the processes - ESSP and all applicable supply chain processes
• Deliver crisp executive-ready updates, incorporating the practice of structured 30-60-second summaries and "top 5 actions" reporting cadence
• Lead or sponsor CI events, digital enablement initiatives, and root-cause-based corrective actions
• Conduct performance management, coaching, and continuous feedback while fostering a high-engagement, high-accountability culture
• Implement process simplification and stabilisation initiatives (e.g.SOP deployments) ensuring alignment with business system requirements
• Cross Functional collaboration and Global Initiaitives Partnership - Strengthen working relationships with plant functions (quality, engineering, materials, procurement and rest of the COE teams)
• Support audits, program reviews, and adherence to corporate policies
• Knowledge of manufacturing technologies, supply chain process, PMP
• Team Leadership and People Management
• Escalation and issue resolution
• Conflict Resolutions
• Strategic Thinking and Portfolio Prioritization
• Quick response to deadlines and effective time management
• Strong analytics and reporting acumen