Team Leader

Übersicht

Based in the former warehouse district of Fulton Market, Chicago’s lively West Loop area, which is now a hip corporate and entertainment area known for creative global and modern American restaurants, we have easy access to public transport, great restaurants, and an awesome office roof deck. You will join a highly effective, caring team in an office full of natural light, bikes, and donuts! Meet your teammates for a lakefront ride, yoga on the rooftop, or lunch on the balcony in between all the fun. Not all SRAM engineers are cyclists, but we all have a passion for creating our world class products. Enjoy a work environment focused on peer collaboration, continuous improvement, and hands-on creation of high-quality, robust bike components. To lead product development teams in the delivery of inspiring, high-quality, profitable products, faster and ever more effectively with empowered and energized teams.

Aufgabenbereiche

• Define and monitor project duration and cost within project launch targets
• Meet or exceed project target dates for finished part and assembly requirements
• Satisfy customer needs, including COGS and specifications
• Ensure production readiness and quality planning
• Facilitate effective communication and resolution of conflicts involving schedule, costing and resources with team, development center and across global organization
• Promote ongoing and timely communication standards, including project status and metrics within the team
• Foster a team environment to pursue meaningful product innovation while managing tradeoffs between design and product requirements within schedule
• Guide the team using situational management

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience required
• 5 years’ experience in project or team management
• 5+ years Engineering and/or Manufacturing experience preferred
• Sound understanding of product development processes and project management principles
• Participation in product development processes as an individual contributor for a minimum of 3 development cycles
• Proven experience with taking a product from concept to detailed design and into production
• Able to influence cross-functional teams for support
• Able to clearly communicate ideas and engage stakeholders
• Intermediate Microsoft Office skills and ability to learn and utilize new software packages
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally to other development locations up to 30% of the time
• Willingness to spend extended periods at Asia factories for 2-3 weeks during production startup or other critical times in the project life cycle
• Meetings and phone calls at alternative timelines (AM/PM with other locations)

Über SRAM

SRAM LLC ist einer der weltweit größten Zulieferer von Komponenten für die Fahrradindustrie. SRAM wurde 1987 in Chicago gegründet und widmet sich seitdem dem Fahrrad: Durch seine Produkte, sein soziales Engagement und seine Mitarbeiter, die das Radfahren immer besser machen wollen. Heute beschäftigt SRAM mehr als 4.500 Mitarbeiter an über 20 Standorten in 9 Ländern weltweit. SRAM ist stolz darauf, ein Arbeitgeber mit Chancengleichheit zu sein.