Senior Systems Program Manager

Schneider Electric has a meaningful opportunity available for a Senior Systems Program Manager in our Power Products division. You will work for a company consistently rated by Fortune as one of the “Great Places to Work”, by Glassdoor as “Best Places To Work” and by TIME as the #1 “Most Sustainable Company in the World.”

Mission

• Lead customer proofs of concept and strategic account programs for Schneider Electric solutions using Solid State Transformer technologies.
• Convert agreed technical and commercial objectives into an executable program plan, coordinate delivery across teams in the US, Europe and China, and maintain disciplined control of scope, schedule, dependencies, risk, decisions and stakeholder communication.
• Ensure that each Point of Contact (PoC) produces objective evidence against agreed success criteria and supports a clear decision on the next phase.

Scope & Enviornment

• Global program role supporting the US hub, strategic customers and distributed Schneider Electric teams.
• Programs may combine new product development, customer-site integration and validation across SST, medium-voltage equipment, BESS, AI rack power, cooling, controls and digital systems.
• The role coordinates internal workstreams, laboratories, suppliers and customer stakeholders, and may lead multiple concurrent PoCs or related strategic projects.

Key Responsibilities

Program Framing and Governance:
• Establish the PoC charter, scope, success criteria, deliverables, work breakdown, governance, decision rights and phase gates.
• Confirm assumptions, exclusions and acceptance responsibilities with technical, commercial and customer stakeholders.

Integrated planning and execution:
• Build and maintain the integrated schedule across engineering, procurement, laboratories, software, manufacturing, logistics, site readiness and customer activities.
• Manage critical path, dependencies, resources and recovery actions.

Risk, issue and change control:
• Own the program risk and opportunity register, issue resolution, change control and escalation process.
• Ensure that scope, schedule, cost and technical consequences are visible before commitments are changed.

Cross-region and customer coordination:
• Coordinate execution across the US, Europe and China teams and maintain a single, reliable program view.
• Lead customer progress reviews, document decisions and actions, and align stakeholder expectations throughout the program.

Evidence, handover and learning:
• Ensure that validation evidence is captured against agreed success criteria.
• Lead phase-gate readiness, final PoC reporting, transition to productization or deployment, and structured lessons learned for future programs.

Qualifications

Education: 

• Bachelor or Master degree in Engineering, Program Management or a closely related discipline. Formal project or program management certification is valuable.
• Engineering education or equivalent practical experience should support coordination of complex electrical-system development, certification, industrialization and validation programs.
• PMP Certification Preferred
• Ability to travel up to 35%

Language: 

• Professional fluency in English is required for customer governance, reporting and global coordination.
• Additional language capability is valuable for coordination across global teams and suppliers.

Experience:

• Typically 10 or more years of experience managing complex engineering, new-product, customer PoC or strategic delivery programs in an international environment.

• Demonstrated accountability for NA data-center or utility-connected programs, including customer deployment and internal product-readiness workstreams. Experience supporting an AI Factory opportunity pipeline is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating multi-disciplinary hardware, software, validation, supply-chain and site activities with clear ownership of schedule, risk and change.
• Proven delivery of UL certification programs, test-lab setup or manufacturing industrialization, including cross-region suppliers, budgets, approval gates and recovery planning.

• Ability to translate customer deployment needs into internal program dependencies and secure timely decisions from global product and architecture stakeholders.

• Experience in power systems, power electronics, data centers, BESS, industrial automation or other complex engineered systems is strongly preferred.
• Sufficient MV, SST, DC/DC, BESS and prefab integration literacy to identify dependencies and coordinate qualified technical reviews for the NA application.
• Practical familiarity with certification submissions, test evidence, lab commissioning, manufacturing quality and utility/site prerequisites, while respecting formal engineering and operating authorizations.

Skill Requirements: 

• Strong program planning, governance, risk management, change control and executive reporting capability.

• Use agreed measures for NA pipeline readiness, milestone variance, budget forecasts, certification findings and closure, lab acceptance, pilot-build readiness and customer acceptance.
• Maintain auditable links between decisions, approval conditions, released baselines and execution actions across customer and internal programs.

• Ability to build alignment across technical, commercial and customer teams, while constructively challenging unclear scope or unsupported commitments.

• Build alignment across NA commercial teams, global product/architecture, compliance, laboratories, manufacturing, quality and service. Submit decision-ready options for GPO/GSA review and escalate against agreed thresholds.
• Distinguish demonstrator readiness, lab operating acceptance, UL certification, industrialization readiness and customer acceptance in all reporting.

• Calm, structured decision making under pressure, with strong follow-through, communication and attention to evidence and detail.

• Deliver approved NA customer and internal milestones with transparent forecasts, timely approval submissions and closure of conditions.
• Convert NA pipeline needs and program evidence into actionable product, architecture and readiness recommendations, and track the approved actions through to deployment.

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