Director Programs Separation Systems

Director Programs Separation Systems

Beyond Gravity

Linköping, Sweden

Your Mission

Overall responsibility for the Programs & Projects, delivering on short and long term targets for Sales, OrderIntake, Contribution Margins and cash-flows. Ensuring the successful execution and delivery with regards to quality, time, cost and customer satisfaction, for all projects within the domain.

Execution:

• Responsible for yearly NetSales and OrderIntake targets according Business Plan;
• Owns the overall responsibility for all assigned programs (programmatic, financial, technical), within the framework agreed with the customer;
• Manages assigned project/program managers from disciplinary and programmatic point of view;
• Maintains the ongoing contacts with customers in the pre-acquisition phase and supports business development;
• Identifies and manages sales activities and new business opportunities and acts upon these by involving internal stakeholders;
• Supports the creation of technical proposals, including cost- and schedule estimates for future projects;
• Contributes to Technology-, Product- and Strategic roadmaps with existing business intelligence;
• Takes the managerial responsibility towards the direct reports, performing the HR processes such as competence planning, recruitment, performance management, development etc.

Proposals:

• Steers negotiations with customers, in close collaboration with designated “proposal team” and support from legal;
• Supports price definition/contribution margin project cost calculations during proposal phase and steers implementation after negotiation;
• Follows and approves offers within PROGRAM area;
• Assigns or acts as primary customer interface during Program negotiation, contracting and implementation phase.

Management responsibility:

• Ensures program operations and activities adhere to legal guidelines and internal policies. Leads and performs all duties according to the Beyond Gravity Values and Code of Conduct;
• Leads and coordinates the overall project planning and is responsible to ensure execution according to project/program milestones;
• Leads project controlling with inputs from assigned Finance/Project controlling stakeholders;
• Coordinates with Engineering, Operations, and other applicable stakeholders to demand for resources;
• Appoints Project or Program Managers for the Programs & Projects.

Leads a unit with the responsibility to:

• Lead project teams, targeting contract compliant execution of all relevant tasks and elaboration of all technical deliverables within the financial and timing boundary conditions;
• Support subordinates (when escalated) to secure team composition in line with project requirements and in agreement with the relevant line-managers from engineering and operations, coordinating the disciplines;
• Identify and ensure the relevant communication flow within the team and project management team, including periodic progress reporting to the program Organisation;
• Ensure and manage achievement of milestones incl. invoicing of milestones;
• Identify, categorize, estimate, track, document and mitigate risks;
• Represent the company towards relevant customers, suppliers, and agencies;
• Create ECPs, CCNs, additional sales and other relevant claims, including negotiation with assigned contracts officer;
• Actively maintain lessons learned during both sell and project execution phases;
• Drive improvements within projects, to create value both in the short and long term.

Most important output and KPIs:

• Contribution Margin of projects;
• Earned Value Management (EVM);
• OTD;
• Quality Performance;
• Customer Satisfaction KPI;
• Risk Register – with early warning system.

Your Story

• Education in Engineering, M.Sc. level or above;
• Certified and/or deeply experienced within Project/Program Management;
• Experience from project execution in an international environment;
• Extensive managerial experience;
• Deep knowledge from the Space and related non-space business;
• Excellent communication and coordination skills;
• Holistic view, strategic orientation, and excellent analytical skills;
• Sales and proposal experience;
• Leadership: lead and develop the team in accordance with the company values as well as business strategy and goals;
• Diversity: develop and encourage the culture of openness in the organization with a special focus on diversity aspects.

Nice to have’s:

• Customer insight, experience from the customers’ business and organization;
• Technical understanding and know-how of related field of work and generalistic approach.