Senior Program Manager – Manufacturing

Role Overview

• 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.

Tech Stack

• PMP

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