Job Description
Regional Manager Profitability & Change Management

About Us
GKN Automotive is the market leader in conventional, all-wheel and electrified drive systems and solutions. With a comprehensive global footprint, we design, develop, manufacture and integrate an extensive range of driveline technologies for over 90% of the world's car manufacturers.

Role purpose

Providing a creative cost engineering mindset to with the GKN PM framework and Materials Management methodologies for the development and execution of margin improvement ideas by cross functional teams.

Key responsibilities

Internal Communications
Execute a communications plan within established internal communication systems and procedures.

Stakeholder Managemen
t Plan and deliver stakeholder engagement activities to develop effective working relationships for projects and to ensure that stakeholder needs and concerns are identified and met.

Project Risk and Issue Management
Ensure that risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints are managed appropriately at project level. Where risks or issues threaten delivery of the project, develop and agree on recovery plans.

Data Collection and Analysis
Conduct research using primary data sources, and select information needed for the analysis of key themes and trends.

Continuous Improvement
Lead the review of existing operations and the implementation of innovation processes across the department or sub-function to ensure the required continuous improvement outcomes are delivered.

Personal Capability Building
Develop own capabilities by participating in assessment and development planning activities as well as formal and informal training and coaching; gain or maintain external professional accreditation, where relevant, to improve performance and fulfill personal potential. Maintain an understanding of relevant technology, external regulation, and industry best practices through ongoing education, attending conferences, and reading specialist media.

Project Reporting and Review
Manage the project review process; provide stakeholders with accurate and relevant information and key recommendations at established review points to enable them to evaluate progress and agree on change.

Project Scope Definition
Plan and lead the delivery of a range of information gathering, analysis, and stakeholder consultation activities and specify, negotiate, and agree on project deliverables.

Operational Compliance
Monitor and review performance and behaviors within area of responsibility to identify and resolve noncompliance with the organization's policies and relevant regulatory codes and codes of conduct.

Project Planning
Produce workstream or project plans, ensuring that all activities are identified, are appropriately organized to deliver project objectives, and comply with the organization's project management framework.

Project Team Management
Lead a small- to medium-sized project team; communicate the project vision and the necessary outcomes, along with guidance to achieve these outcomes; coordinate team actions on project activities; coordinate the flow of additional team members on and off the team, as needed; and identify areas of improvement to build the capability of the team through training, coaching, and mentoring.

Project Benefit Realization
Deliver baseline assessments and post-implementation analyses to evaluate and track the realization of business benefits.

Skills
Analyze Alternatives and Recommend Solutions
Works at an advanced level to analyze potential solutions and create recommendations based on the expected benefits, costs, and overall value of the solution for key stakeholders. Typically works independently and provides guidance.

Prioritizing
Works with full competence to prioritize components of a project, program, or portfolio work in context with risks, activities, stakeholders, etc. across the life of the project or program. Typically works without supervision and may provide technical guidance.

Project Communications Management
Works at an advanced level to ensure timely and appropriate planning, collection, creation, distribution, storage, retrieval, management, control, archiving, and disposition of project information. Typically works independently and provides guidance.

Project Management
Works with full competence to plan and manage small project work assignments within desired cost, time and quality parameters. Typically works without supervision and may provide technical guidance.

Project Risk and Issue Managemen
t Works with full competence to plan, identify, monitor, analyze, and prioritize risks (threats and opportunities), create response plans, and manage the risk if it occurs. Typically works without supervision and may provide technical guidance.

Project Tracking and Reporting
Works with full competence to measure and report on the status of milestones in order to deliver predefined project results. Typically works without supervision and may provide technical guidance.

Adaptive Mindset
Works at an advanced level to shift into and out of a mental mindset associated with assessing the facts and circumstances of the current situation and/or environment, and making the appropriate/innovative adjustments to thinking and work habits to thrive in any scenario. Typically works independently and provides guidance.

Education
Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Level

Experience
Experience enables job holder to deal with the majority of situations and to advise others (Over 3 years to 6 years)