What are the responsibilities and job description for the Program Coord position at Kaman Composites, Vermont, Inc?
Overview: Strong background in product management, adept at negotiation, and capable of leading cross-functional teams to meet value stream objectives, with excellent communication, marketing, and technical skills, and proficiency in MS Office.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develops and executes negotiation and proposal plans and strategies for assigned projects in collaboration with value stream program manager
- Leads cross-functional project teams to identify execution roadblocks to ensure delivery of programmatic commitments
- Identifies issues, tracks progress, and ensures follows- through on corrective actions, DMRs and customer requests
- Organizes interdepartmental activities to ensure projects completion on schedule and within budget
- Prepares and presents project status reports to leadership as needed.
- Leads team in forecasting build plans, delivery plans and yearly value stream forecasts
- Reviews daily, weekly, and monthly customer commitments and works with operations managers and Production Control to track, schedule and drive production commitments through delivery
- Works with and attends customer meetings to support Program Manager with customer requests
- May be required to travel
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- Possess exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to convey information clearly and effectively.
- Demonstrated relationship management, enabling the development and maintenance of strong, positive relationships with stakeholders, creating weekly delivery schedules and clearly communicating weekly goals
- Exhibit strong decision-making abilities, characterized by making sound, proactive choices that drive success
- Possess excellent negotiation skills, with a proven ability to achieve win-win solutions.
- Ability to evaluate quality of work product to ensure satisfaction of customer requirements
- Ability to identify issues, track progress, and follow through on effective corrective actions based on data analysis and trends
- Ability to lead teams in matrix organization to achieve schedule, cost, and technical performance objectives
- Ability to track work accomplished to baseline plans to ensure rate of work completion is sufficient to meet schedules
- Ability to understand and analyze value stream financial data.
- Understanding of the fundamentals of risk and opportunity management and ability to apply them to projects and suppliers
- Supports the development and execution bids through production execution
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