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Joining OPmobility means stepping into a global group with a purpose to keep people and goods moving safely, smarter, and sustainably everywhere.
Senior Program Manager
Type of Contract: Full-time, Permanent
Location: Rossford, Ohio
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.
Profile
- 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.
At OPmobility, people truly matter. We are committed to building inclusive teams, promoting diversity and equality, and ensuring that every application is considered fairly - because the future of mobility is built by diverse perspectives, bold ideas, and people who dare to move forward.
Innovation is therefore not a buzzword, but a natural part of everyday work. You'll grow in an international environment where cutting-edge technologies, industrial excellence, and real-world impact come together to tackle the challenges of tomorrow's automotive industry.
Founded in 1946 by Pierre Burelle, OPmobility, known until 2024 as Plastic Omnium, has transformed itself into a player in sustainable and connected mobility. Today, OPmobility develops technological solutions across four areas of expertise: exterior and lighting systems, the integration of complex modules, technologies related to energy storage, hydrogen and electrification, and a division dedicated to the development of embedded software and digital solutions.
With €11.5 billion in revenue in 2025, 152 factories, 40 R&D centers, and nearly 38,100 employees across 28 countries, OPmobility combines global scale with local impact. All driven by a shared ambition to accelerate the automotive energy transition.