Program Manager

Advantest

$100K — $130K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in business or engineering
  • 2+ years of relevant work experience
  • Proficient in project management methodology
  • Strong stakeholder management skills
  • Ability to analyze data for decision-making

Responsibilities

  • Manage and develop project plans to align with customer expectations
  • Oversee cross-functional team activities to ensure timely project completion
  • Review project status with customers and management regularly
  • Facilitate effective meetings with internal and external teams
  • Resolve project issues promptly and escalate as necessary
  • Implement Engineering Change Orders in a timely manner
  • Ensure closure of customer-related accounts receivable issues
  • Guide program decisions based on contractual terms and conditions
  • Understand all components needed to launch new programs or orders
  • Manage customer relations, order fulfillment, and issue resolution to achieve revenue goals

Benefits

  • Career development opportunities
  • Collaborative work environment
  • Opportunity to lead critical projects
  • Exposure to cross-functional challenges
  • Focus on customer satisfaction and quality improvement
Full Job Description
About the Role

The Program Manager leads cross-functional engineering and manufacturing programs from planning through delivery, ensuring alignment with customer expectations, contractual requirements, and operational readiness. The role drives schedule, quality, and cost performance through structured project management, clear communication, proactive risk mitigation, and strong stakeholder leadership. A key focus includes maintaining high customer satisfaction, improving OTD, and resolving RMA and technical issues through data-driven decision-making.

Roles and Responsibilities include
  • Managing and developing project plans (10%)
  • Manage activities of a cross functional team(s) to ensure completion of the project on time (10%)
  • Review status with the customer and the management team (10%)
  • Drive effective meetings with both internal and external teams (10%)
  • Timely resolution of issues and escalation as required to avoid delays in project completion (10%)
  • Ensure timely implementation of ECOs (10%)
  • Ensure proper closure of customer related A/R issues (10%)
  • Ensures program-related decisions are guided by the terms & conditions of the customer's contract (10%)
  • Understands all aspects required to launch a new program or order (10%)
  • Responsible for customer management and satisfaction, order management and delivery, revenue achievement, business issue resolution (RMA's) (10%)


Bachelor's degree in business/engineering with 2+ yr relevant work experience preferred.

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