
Senior Program Manager – Manufacturing
Jabil
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $126,100 - $227,000 per year
Job Level
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About the role
- Ensures all program requirements and/or objectives are correctly gathered, understood and properly translated for execution.
- Builds teams to address the project goals and objectives for multiple and/or enterprise-level projects.
- Collaborates with customer (internal or external) from requirements gathering through product acceptance stages.
- Aligns the program team to customer needs by establishing milestones, goals, and objectives based on input from all functional areas and stakeholders within the enterprise project.
- Reviews project schedules with functional project managers and project coordinators assigned to projects.
- Provides guidance and motivation to project teams to successfully achieve project goal and corporate initiatives.
- Communicates project objectives in terms of overall strategic business objectives.
- Serves as interface with customers, vendors, stakeholders and project sponsor(s).
- Devises creative solutions to critical customer and user needs.
- Manages development of project plans with focus on achievement of project goals and corporate initiatives, including project-specific Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) or metrics.
- Monitors projects' Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and manages the work within scope, quality, time and cost constraints.
- Obtains and summarizes current project information and milestone status versus project performance baseline.
- Drives project/program tasks to completion in accordance with the project schedule.
- Coordinates the efforts of the team to develop an integrated project plan and risk analysis with action plans to mitigate the risks.
- Manages resource capacity and time tracking allocated to enterprise-level project.
- Performs Financial Management and analysis of costs for enterprise-level projects and programs including Capital Expenditures Requests (CER’s) travel, training, resources allocation and other project related costs.
- Forecasts project budget and labor needs for current and future site needs.
- Remains accountable for overall program success - including cost, schedule, quality, and scope management.
- Holds team accountable for individual and team results.
- Balances the cost, schedule and time-frames against the enterprise level project requirements.
- Reports project status, issues and implemented solutions as well as evaluations and assessments of the results.
- Provides leaders with updates, including greatest opportunities for improvement.
- Recognizes potential problem areas against the plan and identify and implement alternative solutions.
- Identifies best cost solutions to reduce cost by streamlining processes and systems (i.e. modification of responsibilities or consolidation of tasks, elimination of non-value added processes, or complete re-engineering of processes and systems).
- Provides key stakeholders with regular project performance status, variances to plan, and identification of corrective actions (if required).
- Participates in the exchange of ideas and information within the department and with other Jabil facilities to ensure best practices are shared throughout the company.
- Drives continuous improvement through trend reporting analysis and metrics management.
- Demonstrates a commitment to customer service; anticipate, meet and exceed expectations by solving problems quickly and effectively, making customer issues a priority.
- Coaches others through difficult decision making situations.
- Designs and facilitates training related to implementation of enterprise initiatives.
- Engages and collaborates with customers within Jabil to obtain greater understanding of customer needs.
- Drives relevant, concise and effective communication through a variety of mediums.
- Designs clear and consistent messages for a variety of diverse audiences, ensuring relevance and effectiveness of delivery.
- Works closely with communications, stakeholders , and management to stay informed of important company information to evaluate and measure program effectiveness and impact on the business.
- Complies with and follows all procedures within the company security policy.
- Leads teams across different regions and time zones.
- Travels to different regions depending on program requirements.
- Identifies and understand interdependencies across multiple sites and functional areas.
- May perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
Requirements
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or equivalent required
- Must be adept at navigating the diversified landscape with respect to country cultures, company divisions and internal hierarchies
- Proficiency in use of personal computers, Microsoft Office products (Excel, Word and PowerPoint) and e-mail skills required
- Proficiency in use of project management software (Microsoft Project, Celoxis, Smartsheets, etc) is required
- Bachelor’s degree required, Masters Degree Preferred
- Minimum of 8 years work-related experience required in project management or related discipline.
- Minimum of 8 years work-related experience in regulated industries.
Benefits
- medical, dental, and vision insurance plans
- paid time off accruing at a rate of 3.07 hours during your first year of employment
- 4 weeks of paid parental leave
- 11 company-paid holidays in 2026 (9 fixed holidays and 2 optional floating holidays), subject to change yearly
- 401(k) retirement plan
- employee stock purchase plan
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
project managementfinancial managementrisk analysisKPI monitoringbudget forecastingresource capacity managementcost analysisprocess improvementtraining designmilestone tracking
Soft Skills
team leadershipcommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvingcustomer servicecoachingstrategic thinkingmotivationadaptabilitydecision making
Certifications
Project Management Professional (PMP)Bachelor's degreeMaster's degree