The Program Leader plays a key role in coordinating and managing the entire lifecycle of new product development projects and is accountable for meeting all project commitments (product improvements, cost reductions, incremental margins and volumes, production schedules, and project budgets). Project execution involves definition of requirements, concept evaluations and documentation, product design, virtual build/validation, prototype builds/validation, pilot and first production, market launch activities, product cost and project financials tracking, and periodic status updates.