Global Program Manager

**Maxeon Solar Technologies **is a global leader in solar innovation. Built from 35 years of boundary-pushing solar innovation, Maxeon designs manufactures and sells industry-leading SunPower branded solar products. Maxeon is Powering Positive Change every day with a brilliant, passionate, and driven team of more than 5,000 people globally.

**We push the boundaries **, taking solar technology higher, faster, and farther than before.

**We hold ourselves to a higher standard **, striving for the highest integrity, safety, and quality.

**We thrive together as a global team, **embracing our diverse backgrounds to make a positive impact on the world.

**Join us in POWERING POSITIVE CHANGE
**SUMMARY OF ROLE**

This is a critical role within the Enterprise Project Management Office that will play an important role in shaping the PMO organization to foster a delivery and outcome-oriented culture. You will be part of a vibrant EPMO team that will act as custodian of project management standards across the company, in terms of
- Defining and Maintaining a standardized Process, Tools, and Template
- Establishing a learning organization, harvesting Lessons Learned
- Maintaining Knowledge Base Repository & Adoption of Best Practices
- Establishing the right level of governance to maintain PM standards across the company

You will plan, mobilize and lead complex cross-functional projects. You will be the prime mover of your projects, including scoping, resource planning, communications, project governance, risk management, and readiness. You will connect the dots, build trust and understanding between groups, and orchestrate activities needed to make your project/ program successful.

**1) Project and Program Management**
- Lead complex, cross-functional projects that will impact system, process, organization
- Oversee the implementation of projects and program globally, working in partnership with R&D, Manufacturing Operations, Quality & Reliability, NPI, Product Management, Sales, Finance, and Supply Chain teams
- Independently organize project teams and oversee all aspects of projects, serving as a liaison among the project management team, line management, and leadership team

**2) PMO Governance**
- Define, maintain, and reinforce good project management processes, templates, and reporting
- Share learnings & project results across the organization to transfer valuable knowledge gained from each project
- Maintain knowledge base repositories
- Coordinate work across the Project Management community to ensure consistency in how projects are delivered
- Collaborate with Project Managers to provide accurate insights into project performance, threats, and opportunities that can affect important strategic initiatives
- Facilitate or co-chair the Enterprise PMO Governance board to focus attention on critical issues/risks that could significantly impact organizational direction, facilitate the right level of conversation & decision making at the right time
- Ensure the implementation of various organizational strategies with portfolio-level investments in programs and projects deliver specific results, changes, or products

**Skills & Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
- Minimum of 10 years of Project & Program Management experience in a regional/global and diverse cultural organization
- Project Management certification is a must
- Lean or Six Sigma Certification (desirable)
- Strong Stakeholder Management across all levels of the organization. The ability and confidence to interact with senior leadership and sr. business executives is a must
- Ability to drive and influence change in a regional/global and diverse cultural organization
- Ability to motivate and influence without formal authority
- Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken. Ability to articulate complex technical issues in a way that non-technical people may understand
- Experience establishing program structure for optimal ROI, coordinating, and delegating cross-functional initiatives
- Experience in Financial modeling (desirable)
- Knowledge in NPI Product Development & Management (highly desirable)
- Knowledge of BI Tools (desirable)

**Equal Employment Opportunity**

It is Maxeon’s policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees. SunPower disapproves of, and will not tolerate, unlawful discrimination against any applicant or employee because of race, color, national origin or ancestry, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity, age, religion, disability, family care status, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by local, state or federal laws.