Senior Program Manager - Precision Drives

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Those who came before us helped land a man on the moon, create the world's infrastructure, and introduce renewable energy alternatives. Now you can join the Timken team to write your own unique story and help drive what's next.

A career at Timken means you can have an immediate impact doing Work That Matters to the world— improving the efficiency of today's industrial equipment and preparing for the future of motion on our planet and beyond. New employees can start contributing right away, and there are many opportunities to advance your career at your own pace. Join our global team of 19,000 people in 45 countries, and start helping our customers push the limits of what's possible in their world of motion.

Purpose: 

This position is responsible to scope, lead and manage programs and projects that support the Precision Drives Platform goals, focusing on growth across key verticals. This role will build plans and indirectly manage cross-functional teams to complete the defined deliverables according to project charters and timeline and in alignment with the organic growth process. This position reports to the President of the Precision Drives Platform.

Essential Responsibilities: 

• Plan, lead and manage critical programs and projects on time and within budget while managing risk and meeting the project technical and financial requirements.  Programs and projects can be a variety of types and sizes, including:
• Organic growth projects and product launches, according to the Concept to Commercialization (C2C) stage gate process model
• New Product Introductions, launching new products and part numbers that fulfill quality and customer performance expectations
• Cost reduction, continuous improvement or product rationalization projects
• Coach, support, and drive the cross-functional project team to complete the planned deliverables, ensure that the appropriate rigor is applied to the team output, maintain alignment of activities throughout the project lifecycle.
• Conduct stage gate review meetings, work with the project team to identify key risks, and develop mitigation plans.
• Communicate regularly to the key project stakeholders regarding the status of the project and key issues/risks.
• Identify gaps in execution and opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Take ownership of assigned programs and projects.
• Remain engaged within a community of practice among program managers in other parts of the organization.
• Develop an understanding of industry and customer specs/requirements.
• Support customer relationships through face-to-face time, executing plans, and coordination of Timken resources

Technical/Functional Skills:

• Demonstrated effective project management skills and disciplined approach to problem solving
• Effective presentation skills to all levels of the organization
• Robust communication network throughout the organization and ability to influence others
• Ability to access and analyze business and engineering data and develop quantitative & qualitative project justifications
• Understanding of relevant business processes
• New product and business development experience
• Experience managing high-performing, global matrixed/cross-functional teams to meet objectives
• Ability to identify critical path roadblocks, prioritize and propose a solution (s), and then drive alignment across the organization.
• Experience working in C.I., Lean, Problem-solving, or 6-sigma projects.
• Ability to travel to multiple Timken facilities (U.S.) through the year, for frequent assignments of a few days to a week, and occasional assignments of 2-3 weeks.
• Timken Quality Management System experience (preferred) 

Basic Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, or other related field
• At least 10 years experience in new product/new business development

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Master's degree in Engineering, Business, or other related field
• 15+ experience with proven high-performing results through both technical and business development experiences

This position may require access to United States export controlled technical data (“CTD”) and hardware under the Departments of US State (ITAR) and/or Commerce (EAR).  Eligible candidates are; US Citizens, Green Card holders, Asylees or others eligible to receive US export license authorizations. Candidate must be authorized to work in the US.
 

All qualified applicants shall be treated equally according to their individual qualifications, abilities, experiences and other employment standards. There will be no discrimination due to gender or gender identity, race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran/military status or any other basis protected by applicable law.