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Jabil

Designs and builds electronics for other brands

Global Program Manager

Program ManagementUpdated on Nov 9
Full-timeShanghai, ChinaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Knowledge of Jabil operating policies and procedures is required.
  • Expert knowledge of Jabil’s culture and guiding principles is required.
  • Ability to navigate diverse country cultures, company divisions, and internal hierarchies is required.
  • Proficiency with personal computers, Microsoft Office products including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, and email is required.
  • Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or equivalent is required.
  • A bachelor's degree is required.
  • At least 8 years of work-related experience in project management or a related discipline is required, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.

Responsibilities

  • Gather, understand, and translate project requirements and objectives into execution plans.
  • Build teams to address goals and objectives for multiple and enterprise-level projects.
  • Collaborate with internal or external customers from requirements gathering through product acceptance.
  • Align program teams to customer needs by establishing milestones, goals, and objectives with functional areas and stakeholders.
  • Review project schedules with functional project managers and project coordinators.
  • Guide and motivate project teams to achieve project goals and corporate initiatives.
  • Communicate project objectives in terms of strategic business objectives.
  • Serve as the interface with customers, vendors, stakeholders, and project sponsors.
  • Develop solutions for critical customer and user needs.
  • Manage project plans focused on project goals and corporate initiatives, including project-specific key performance indicators and metrics.
  • Monitor project key performance indicators and manage work within scope, quality, time, and cost constraints.
  • Gather and summarize current project information and milestone status against performance baselines.
  • Drive project and program tasks to completion according to schedule.
  • Coordinate the team to develop integrated project plans and risk analyses with mitigation action plans.
  • Manage resource capacity and time tracking for enterprise-level projects.
  • Perform financial management and cost analysis for enterprise-level projects and programs, including capital expenditure requests, travel, training, resource allocation, and other project costs.
  • Forecast project budgets and labor needs for current and future site needs.
  • Remain accountable for project success, including cost, schedule, quality, and scope management.
  • Balance cost, schedule, and time frames against enterprise-level project requirements.
  • Report project status, issues, implemented solutions, and evaluations of results.
  • Provide leaders with updates, including opportunities for improvement.
  • Identify potential problems against plans and implement alternative solutions.
  • Identify cost-saving solutions by streamlining processes and systems, including modifying responsibilities, consolidating tasks, eliminating non-value-added processes, or reengineering processes and systems.
  • Provide stakeholders with regular project performance updates, variances to plan, and corrective actions when needed.
  • Share ideas and information across the department and Jabil facilities to promote best-practice sharing.
  • Drive continuous improvement through trend reporting, analysis, and metrics management.
  • Demonstrate customer service by anticipating and meeting customer expectations, resolving problems effectively, prioritizing customer issues, and coaching others through difficult decisions.
  • Design and facilitate training for enterprise initiative implementation.
  • Collaborate with customers within Jabil to better understand their needs.
  • Deliver relevant, concise, and effective communications through varied media.
  • Design clear, consistent messages for diverse audiences and ensure they are relevant and effectively delivered.
  • Work with communications, stakeholders, and management to stay informed about company information and evaluate program effectiveness and business impact.
  • Comply with procedures in the company security policy.
  • Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Desired Qualifications

  • A master's degree is preferred.

About the Company

Jabil

Designs and builds electronics for other brands

Jabil designs and manufactures electronics and other products for companies that sell them under their own brands, including makers of AI data center hardware, medical devices, cars, and defense systems. Customers bring a product idea or design, and Jabil handles the engineering, sources the parts, builds the product at scale, and manages the supply chain behind it. The work runs through a global network of factories, so one partner can build products for customers across many markets, from data center racks to medical equipment. Jabil earns revenue through manufacturing and engineering service contracts with these brands. The company was founded in 1966 and is based in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Saint Petersburg, Florida
Founded
1966

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