Aequs is hiring for Manager Program Management| Aerospace Component manufacturing

• *Job Summary:** The Manager, Account Program Management, is responsible for leading strategic aerospace customer programs from contract award through delivery and lifecycle support. This role serves as the primary interface between key customer accounts and internal cross‑functional teams, ensuring program execution aligns with customer commitments, business objectives, and regulatory requirements. The incumbent provides senior‑level leadership across program planning, financial performance, risk management, and operational delivery, while driving customer satisfaction, contract compliance, and long‑term account growth. The role requires deep aerospace industry knowledge, strong commercial acumen, and the ability to influence and collaborate across engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, quality, and finance to deliver complex, high‑value programs successfully.

• *Job Responsibilities:**

1\. Strategic Account Ownership: Act as the senior owner of strategic aerospace customer accounts, ensuring strong relationships, trust, and high customer satisfaction.

2\. Customer Governance Leadership: Serve as the primary customer interface, leading governance meetings, performance reviews, and executive‑level communications.

3\. Demand Planning Ownership: Own end‑to‑end customer demand management, translating forecasts into actionable internal plans. Aequs Internal\-Strictly this data should remain with Aequs

4\. Forecast Accuracy Management: Lead forecast validation, reconciliation, and accuracy improvement in collaboration with customers and internal stakeholders.

5\. Integrated Business Planning: Drive integrated business planning alignment to ensure demand, capacity, inventory, and financial plans are fully synchronized.

6\. Cross‑Functional Leadership: Lead cross‑functional program teams across engineering, operations, supply chain, quality, finance, and logistics.

7\. Matrix Team Direction: Provide clear direction, priorities, and accountability to matrixed internal teams supporting customer programs.

8\. Program Initiation Leadership: Initiate programs post‑contract award, defining scope, milestones, governance, risks, and success metrics.

9\. Program Execution Excellence: Own end‑to‑end program execution, ensuring on‑time, on‑cost, and on‑quality delivery.

10\. Financial Performance Management: Manage program financials, including revenue, margins, cost controls, and variance mitigation.

11\. Risk Issue Mitigation: Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate risks and issues impacting delivery or customer commitments.

12\. Change Contract Control: Lead change management, including scope changes, customer modifications, and contract amendments.

13\. Regulatory Quality Compliance: Ensure full compliance with aerospace quality, regulatory, and contractual requirements.

14\. Continuous Improvement Growth: Drive continuous improvement, lessons learned, and account growth opportunities through execution excellence.

• *Qualification and Exposure:**

1\. Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Aerospace, Business, or a related field; Master’s degree preferred.

2\. 10\+ years of experience in aerospace program/account management with end\-to\-end ownership.

3\. Experience and exposure across aerospace Aerostructures and specially on Engines, Landing Systems business segment.

4\. Proven ability to manage complex customer programs, including demand planning, forecasting, and financial performance.

5\. Strong business data analytics and relevant tools.

6\. Strong leadership experience leading cross\-functional and matrixed teams across engineering, operations, supply chain, and quality.

7\. Solid understanding of aerospace regulatory, quality, and contractual requirements

**Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)**

1\. Customer Satisfaction \& Delivery Performance: Measure customer satisfaction through feedback scores and ensure consistent on‑time, on‑quality program delivery.

2\. Revenue \& Sales Target Achievement: Deliver committed sales revenue and support account growth through successful program execution, contract fulfillment, and upsell opportunities

3\. Forecast Accuracy \& Demand Stability: Achieve high forecast accuracy and minimize demand volatility to enable stable production and supply planning.

4\. Program Financial Performance: Meet or exceed program margin targets while effectively managing costs and minimizing financial variances.

5\. Risk Mitigation Effectiveness: Proactively identify and mitigate program risks to prevent schedule, cost, and quality impacts.

6\. Compliance \& Audit Performance: Ensure zero major audit findings through strict adherence to aerospace quality, regulatory, and contractual requirements.

**Key Skills**

1\. Aerospace Program Lifecycle – End‑to‑end program execution from contract award to delivery and sustainment.

2\. Demand \& Forecast Analysis – Translating customer forecasts into actionable operational plans.

3\. Program Financial Control – Revenue, margin, cost tracking, and variance management.

4\. Quality \& Regulatory Compliance – AS9100 and aerospace customer compliance standards.

5\. Risk \& Change Control – Structured risk assessment, mitigation, and change management processes.

• *Key Competencies:**

1\. Strategic Thinking: Ability to align customer programs with long‑term business objectives and organizational priorities.

2\. Customer Centricity: Strong focus on understanding customer needs and delivering value‑driven solutions.

3\. Leadership \& Influence: Effectively leads and influences cross‑functional and matrixed teams without direct authority.

4\. Communication Effectiveness: Clear, confident communicator at all levels, including executive and customer‑facing engagements.

5\. Decision Making: Makes timely, data‑driven decisions in complex and high‑accountability environments.

6\. Problem Solving: Structured approach to resolving complex program, operational, and customer issues.

7\. Collaboration \& Teamwork: Builds strong partnerships across internal functions and external stakeholders.

8\. Adaptability \& Resilience: Demonstrates composure and flexibility in managing change, ambiguity, and competing priorities.

9\. Accountability \& Ownership: Takes full ownership of program outcomes and customer commitments.

10\. Continuous Improvement Mindset: Actively drives learning, process improvement, and execution excellence.

Pay: From ₹1,300,000\.00 per year

Work Location: In person