Program Analyst and Project Controller

What are your contributions to the team?

As the Program Analyst and Project Controller, you will be responsible for the customer satisfaction of the projects you will be assigned to, as well as the financial and operational health of these projects. You will be the reference within your organization for any request or project related to the customer you will represent internally. You will maintain a strong overview of the Program, understand its strategic alignments and will be in close contact with the internal functions related to the Program. You will be responsible for leading negotiations with the customer while coordinating all activities related to business case/profitability analysis. Daily you will closely work with functional teams, business units and suppliers related to the Program. You will be responsible to make sure that logistics plans and change management plans are in place to meet the customer’s requirements.

• Manage a portfolio of projects related to the Program;
• Ensure the adherence of the Program to budget targets;
• Work in close relationship with colleagues of various functional teams to initiate, investigate, evaluate, prioritize and implement solutions to Program issues;
• Create and follow project schedules to meet the Program requirements;
• Evaluate commercial impacts of technical change and prioritize them;
• Prepare profitability analysis and present them to the management team;
• Control Program costs (manpower, material and other direct costs), negotiate with suppliers in terms of schedule, technical scope and commercial impact;
• Lead internal and external governances to provide visibility on your project performance to the stakeholders;
• Work in a cross functional environment where you will interact with all management levels;
• Identify potential problems, manage risk and opportunities by mitigating them along with functional teams;
• Coordinate and ensure quality of departmental governances and ensure schedule adherence.

How to thrive in this role?

• You have a University degree in a related field (Engineering, Business Administration or equivalent);
• You have at least five (5) years of experience in a similar role, in aerospace or similar field;
• You have great leadership skills in project management and have an interest for commercial negotiation;
• You have good language skills: bilingual English and French;
• You have good sense of organization, time management and you demonstrate autonomy;
• You have good knowledge of manufacturing concepts and processes and the ability to relate them to financial performance;
• You have excellent computer skills, particularly in MS Office suite, Teams, Excel, and Power Point.