GKN Aerospace

Global Program Manager

GKN Aerospace

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Papendrecht • 🇳🇱 Netherlands

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Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

About the role

  • Lead Programme level PMRs and coordinate input and preparation activities.
  • Ensure that GKN activities are aligned with the customer and in step with the customer expectations, ambition and timescales for achievement.
  • Ensure that multiple site activities are planned and controlled with ownership of overall budget and resource allocation to sites.
  • Provide a focal point and alignment for site leadership to govern deployment of key activities and hence collective GKN outcomes.
  • Support the Programme director in driving activities to understand the Market Price Index and then review GKN performance (at a product and sub component level) to seek opportunity to remove cost and improve performance.
  • Track progress and performance metrics.
  • Lead, coach and manage a team of direct reports.
  • Facilitate communication and collaboration among stakeholders to resolve challenges and enhance efficiency.
  • Oversee the coordination of programmes across various locations, ensuring consistency in processes, practices and outcomes.
  • Establish and maintain programme governance structures, ensuring adherence to timelines, budgets and quality standards.
  • Monitor and report on programme performance, provides insights and recommendations for continuous improvement.
  • Responsible for undertaking any other activity required to ensure successful delivery of the program.

Requirements

  • Proven experience in commercial, engineering, or operations roles within the defence sector, ideally in aerospace.
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent academic level.
  • Project Management certification.
  • Demonstrated success in leading change initiatives.
  • Strong leadership capabilities with effective stakeholder management skills.
  • Strategic thinker with the ability to identify growth and improvement opportunities within the product portfolio.
  • Solid business and financial acumen.
  • Analytical mindset with the confidence to challenge existing practices and drive cultural change.
  • Energetic, proactive, and assertive “can-do” attitude.
  • Able to work independently while engaging, influencing, and mobilizing others.
  • Resilient, with strong perseverance and the ability to handle pressure.
  • Skilled at driving activities across indirect or matrixed teams.
  • Good understanding of manufacturing operations and processes.
  • Fluent in English and Dutch.
  • Willing to travel to other GKN Aerospace sites and customer locations.
Benefits
  • A salary in grade WTW-F
  • 8% holiday allowance
  • 30 paid holidays for full-time employment
  • An excellent pension scheme (PME)
  • Very competitive profit sharing scheme
  • A pleasant and informal working environment, in which we work together to achieve the best result for our customers
  • Business travel allowance according to GKN Fokker Aerospace policy.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
Project ManagementMarket Price Index analysisPerformance metrics trackingBudget managementResource allocationChange managementManufacturing operationsAnalytical skillsStakeholder managementTeam leadership
Soft skills
LeadershipCommunicationCollaborationStrategic thinkingProblem-solvingResilienceProactivityInfluencingCultural changeIndependence
Certifications
Project Management certification