Launch Manager

As a Project Manager at GKN Automotive, your role involves leading local cross-functional teams to execute customer application programmes from programme launch through to stable mass production, ensuring targets in time, quality, and financial performance are met while meeting stakeholder expectations and requirements. **Key Responsibilities:** - **Project Planning:** Support the production of workstream and project plans to deliver project objectives compliant with the organization's project management framework. - **Stakeholder Management:** Arrange meetings, events, and engagement activities to support stakeholder engagement. - **Project Risk and Issue Management:** Identify, evaluate risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints associated with the project and design mitigating solutions. - **Project Scope Definition:** Conduct research and workshops to specify and agree upon project deliverables. - **Project Resource Management:** Deploy and utilize project resources effectively. - **Personal Capability Building:** Develop capabilities through assessment, development planning, training, coaching, and staying updated on technology, regulations, and industry practices. - **Project Assurance:** Conduct assurance reviews, facilitate third-party reviews, and take actions to ensure project delivery according to set parameters. - **Project Team Management:** Lead the project team, communicate outcomes, coordinate actions, request support when needed, and improve team capability through training and mentoring. - **Change Management:** Assess and analyze changes to contribute to measuring and tracking business benefits. - **Project Governance:** Ensure project compliance with wider program and portfolio management decision-making structures and processes. - **Leadership and Direction:** Explain the local action plan, relate it to the broader business plan, motivate team members to achieve local business goals. **Skills:** - **Project Communications Management** - **Project Management** - **Project Risk and Issue Management** - **Project Change Management** - **Project Resource Planning and Control** - **Project Schedule Management** - **Project Organization and Structure** - **Project Benefits Management** **Education:** - Short-Cycle Tertiary Education **Experience:** - Sound experience and understanding of straightforward procedures or systems (7 to 12 months),