Interior Lighting Project Manager

Valeo is a tech global company, designing breakthrough solutions to reinvent the mobility. We are an automotive supplier partner to automakers and new mobility actors worldwide. Our vision? Invent a greener and more secured mobility, thanks to solutions focusing on intuitive driving and reducing CO2 emissions. We are leader on our businesses, and recognized as one of the largest global innovative companies.

Valeo Group is one of the world's largest Automotive suppliers which is an inspired company focused on innovative products, development and customer satisfaction. Working with us means managing the most advanced and sophisticated technologies.

Our Martos plant is one of the biggest sites within our Visibility Systems Business Group in charge of developing and manufacturing Lighting Products and Electronics, with around 2.600 employees. From the latest adaptive lighting technologies to intuitive interior lighting solutions to stylish and design-centric external lighting, Valeo constantly innovates to improve comfort and safety for drivers and passengers alike.

As a Project Manager (IL) in Valeo Martos you will have the opportunity to work with the most powerful carmaker companies, in the electronics development working in an international and multicultural environment.

Manage operationally and functionally the Projects he/she is assigned to

• Manage OEM/Tier1 Projects (Component, System with known technology components, …) in an international context from customer and Valeo side, multi-sites/multi-interfaces and potentially multi-Regions including China. This is from Request For Quotation (Business Acquisition) to Start of Production then proper transfer to production & project closure.

Is responsible for the achievement of the Project KPI in terms of profitability (both product/development vs Development Activity Payback  and Extended Margin), Quality and Production Preparation

• Secure Project resources in DC and Launch Sites,and control them

• Drive the Associated Pre-Project/Platform (P2) Actors in case of P2 not completed in the project (P1)

• Solve all project  issues requiring any type of support of all suitable functions via the Project Escalation

• Check and validate Project Team Members’activities and proposes timing scenario to achieve milestones

• Define and manage his/her budget including the budget of Projects part of his/her Project

• Prepare decision making process for relevant committee and challenge his project team readiness

• Prepare and submit CAA and IAR (Project/System level) and challenge the P1 Project Managers or Launch Managers of the Projects part of his/her Project/System Project

• Manage all project changes (internal and customer) and coordinates through his team

• Is applying Design to Cost methodology

• Escalate at the right level and with relevant speed/anticipation the gaps versus targets

• Participate in the development, with functional managers, of all core team members from his teams

• Create an interactive and efficient way of work and communication with teams and management, with positive mindset, getting accountability

Manage communication with Customers on Project development progress 

• Keep client(s) updated on Project progress.)

• Prepare/validate reports on Project development progress to Project Management Committees (PSC/PMC) and to all Governance stages when required

• Manage customer relationship (local and central) and coordinate communication with in his team but also with P2/P1 projects associated

• Ensure management of Escalation if any

Promote Valeo Values, Culture and Standards (Product, Methodology, Tools) within the System/ Project teams and control their application

• Respect Valeo Code of ethics

• Respect health, safety and environment charts and requirements

• Ensure Project development in compliance with Valeo standards

Don´t miss the opportunity of joining us and take advantage of being part of an international company that commits to ethics, transparency, empowerment, professionalism and teamwork. Is that you? We want to know you!

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Being part of our team, you will join:
- one of the largest global innovative companies, with more than 20,000 engineers working in Research & Development
- a multi-cultural environment that values diversity and international collaboration
- more than 100,000 colleagues in 31 countries... which make a lot of opportunity for career growth
- a business highly committed to limiting the environmental impact if its activities and ranked by Corporate Knights as the number one company in the automotive sector in terms of sustainable development

More information on Valeo: https://www.valeo.com