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Automotive Programme Manager – Drive Automotive Programme Success From Concept to Delivery

• Location: Near Daventry
• Contract Basis: 6-month FTC, Inside IR35

Join a highly innovative automotive environment focused on delivering exceptional vehicle restoration programmes to exacting standards. This opportunity for an Automotive Programme Manager offers the chance to work within a fast-paced Programme Management Office, supporting the successful delivery of complex automotive restoration programmes.

The Automotive Programme Manager will collaborate with engineering, operations, sourcing, and executive stakeholders to ensure programme objectives are achieved efficiently and effectively.

Utilising your experience in low volume program management, you’ll support senior PMO leadership whilst leading key programme activities, maintaining core programme documentation, coordinating engineering release activities and driving cross-functional delivery performance.

Key Responsibilities of the Automotive Programme Manager:

Programme Delivery Support:

• Play a key role in delivering multiple vehicle programmes, ensuring projects remain on track from concept through to implementation.

Programme Documentation Management:

• Own and maintain critical programme documentation, including Product Development Letters, High-Level Timing Plans, and programme investment records.

Meeting & Stakeholder Coordination:

• Coordinate and drive programme meetings, facilitating engineering release activities, delivery schedules, and change control processes.

Prototype Build Support:

• Support prototype build phases, ensuring programme requirements are effectively planned and executed.

Performance Reporting & Metrics:

• Develop and maintain programme metrics, dashboards, and status reports, providing clear visibility of progress and performance.

Project & Initiative Leadership:

• Lead smaller projects and targeted programme initiatives, taking ownership of successful delivery from start to finish.

Timing & Milestone Management:

• Monitor programme timing plans and key milestones, proactively identifying risks and helping to keep delivery on schedule.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

• Foster strong cross-functional collaboration, working closely with engineering, manufacturing, and wider business teams to achieve programme objectives.

Engineering Release Coordination:

• Support engineering release activities, ensuring timely implementation and alignment with programme requirements.

Change Control Management:

• Manage programme changes effectively, ensuring robust control processes are followed and changes are implemented smoothly.

Hours & Pay:

Hours: Monday – Friday, 08:00 – 17:00 (flexibility required for project delivery)

Ready to join the Team?

If you are an experienced Automotive Programme Manager with a passion for automotive programme execution and stakeholder management, this contract opportunity offers the chance to contribute to the successful delivery of complex vehicle programmes within a highly collaborative environment.

Apply now with your CV, and a member of our team will contact you to discuss the next steps. All applications are handled with the utmost confidentiality.

Key Skills:

Project Manager, Programme Delivery, Programme Management, Automotive Product Development, PMO, Programme Delivery, Low volume, Engineering Release Management, Timing Plans, Change Control, Cross-Functional Leadership, Stakeholder Management, Programme Reporting, Prototype Builds, Automotive Engineering, Project Delivery, OEM Environment