As a Project Manager at Aptiv, you will lead cross-functional teams to successfully deliver product development projects, ensuring alignment with customer expectations and business objectives. You will oversee project execution from launch through delivery, managing timelines, budgets, quality, resources, and risks. Working closely with Engineering, Quality, Sales, Supply Chain, and Manufacturing teams, you will drive project performance and ensure compliance with Aptiv's Product Development Process (PDP). Your leadership will be essential in delivering high-quality solutions while maintaining strong customer relationships and achieving project profitability.
Roles and Responsibilities- Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of product development projects, ensuring achievement of cost, quality, timing, and delivery objectives.
- Develop and maintain overall project plans, business cases, risk management plans, and resource allocation strategies, ensuring alignment with Aptiv's Product Development Process (PDP).
- Coordinate cross-functional teams, including Engineering, Quality, Sales, Supply Chain, and Manufacturing, to drive project milestones and ensure successful product development.
- Monitor product quality performance, ensuring achievement of First Time Quality (FTQ) targets and Worldwide Formal Customer Complaints (WFCC) objectives.
- Manage project financial performance, including budget preparation, CAPEX planning, investment forecasts, expenditure tracking, and approval processes.
- Act as a key point of contact for customers and suppliers, ensuring effective communication, stakeholder alignment, and timely resolution of project-related issues.
- Conduct project reviews, monitor resource allocation and working hours through PlanView, and provide regular progress reports to internal and external stakeholders.
- Ensure compliance with PDP requirements, maintain accurate project documentation, review relevant test reports, and support internal and external audits.
Your Background- Around 10 years or more of experience in project management, leading complex projects or coordinating large cross-functional teams in an international environment.
- Proven ability to manage complex projects, including planning, milestones, budgets, risks, KPIs, and customer deliverables.
- Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to coordinate multidisciplinary teams and influence decisions without direct hierarchical authority.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and synthesis skills, with the confidence to engage directly with customers, senior management, and executive-level stakeholders.
- Solid financial and business understanding, including budget management, cost monitoring, and project performance tracking.
- Highly autonomous, adaptable, and solution-oriented, with the ability to manage competing priorities, navigate ambiguity, and take ownership of projects from day one.
- Experience in the automotive industry, particularly ADAS or camera and radar systems, is an advantage but not mandatory. Candidates from other industrial, software, or business environments are also welcome.
Why join Aptiv?- You grow at Aptiv. Aptiv's winning culture is global by design. We bring together diverse perspectives, cultures, and business contexts to solve our customers' toughest challenges. In this environment, every individual can grow, lead, and make an impact, regardless of background, because inclusion fuels how we innovate and win.
- You make an impact at Aptiv. One of the strengths of humanity is our drive to progress, to improve, to achieve more tomorrow than we did yesterday. People need solutions they can trust when it matters most. At Aptiv, you are building those solutions every day.
- You have support at Aptiv. We ensure you have the resources and support you need to take care of your family, your physical health, and your mental health with a competitive benefits package.
Your Benefits at Aptiv- Our working style: flexible work environment
- Learning, professional growth and development in a world-recognized international environment
- Access to internal & external training, coaching & certifications
- Recognition for innovation and excellence
- Opportunities to give back to the community
Meet the Next-Generation AptivAt Aptiv, we deliver innovative solutions that people trust when it matters most.
Progress is never static. It is about reaching further, exploring new possibilities, and enabling mobility. Aptiv empowers customers to create solutions people rely on-advancing safety and autonomy in Automotive and Commercial Vehicles, enabling mission-critical performance in Aerospace & Defense, and powering intelligent systems across Energy, Enterprise, and Telecommunications. We also drive precision and efficiency in Industrials & Robotics and support life-critical innovation in Medical technologies.
Guided by our winning culture and values to Think & Act Like Owners, as One Team, and Play to Win, we turn commitment into results and achieve more together.
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