Manufacturing and Quality Product Family Senior Manager

Manufacturing and Quality Product Family Senior Manager

Company:

The Boeing Company

Job ID:

00000414977

Date Posted:

2024-02-20

Location:

USA - Seattle, WA

Job Description Qualifications:

The Boeing Enterprise Data & Analytics team is seeking a Manufacturing and Quality Product Family Senior Manager (PFM) in Seattle, WA. The PFM is responsible for defining the Data & Artificial Intelligence (AI) strategy, overseeing the development and management of the data and AI product within Information Technology and Data Analytics (IT&DA). This role will be part of the Analytics leadership team and report directly to Boeing’s Chief Data and Analytics Officer. The role will require presence at various Boeing Seattle area sites across Renton, Everett and Auburn.

This senior leader will work closely with cross-functional teams to guide products from conception to launch, driving adoption of new data driven ways of working. The PFM role will engage directly with the business users and executive stakeholders across Boeing and will be accountable for driving data, digital thread and AI applications in manufacturing and quality domains. PFMs are responsible for ensuring consistent product design and delivery across their product family.

Additional responsibilities for PFMs include building a strategy for maturing data and AI capabilities in their domain, identifying and prioritizing business needs, de-risking product development, monitoring product family performance, and mentoring product managers.

We are looking for leader with strong communication skills – ability to communicate complex messages and trade-offs and tell a compelling story; strong leadership skills – ability to work with and influence a diverse group of stakeholders; a passion for challenging the status quo, finding new solutions, and driving innovative ideas. The leader must embrace change and empower others to learn and grow.

Position Responsibilities:

• Understand current state, identify opportunities for solving complex business problems through data and AI

• Develop product strategy roadmaps with a clear tie to value realization

• Build, manage, deploy and grow product portfolio for data, analytics and AI capabilities in manufacturing and quality domains across Boeing businesses

• Develop future state vision for data lake strategy to bring manufacturing and quality data across from across Boeing

• Help shape digital thread strategy for the enterprise and lead implementation and adoption of digital thread in manufacturing and quality  

• Identify opportunities to implement analytics and AI drive real-time visibility, alerting and predictability for of manufacturing and supplier quality

• Improve best practices for streamlined collaboration and data exchange with Boeing’s suppliers

• Create, measure, and report progress against product and/or product family objectives and key results (OKRs) to provide leadership updates on value delivered 

• Coordinate with cross-functional stakeholders (management and executive levels) to define product implementation, risk management plans, and product strategy 

• Coordinate with other PFMs and product managers to identify major dependencies (e.g., release timeline) and develop mitigation plans 

• Lead and orchestrate execution of strategic initiatives and define/track metrics for success

• Own the end-to-end integrated roadmap across products within family

• Mentor, develop and evaluate product managers within the product family

This position is hybrid. This means that the selected candidate will be required to perform some work onsite at one of the listed location options. This is at the hiring team’s discretion and could potentially change in the future.

This position must meet export control compliance requirements. To meet export control compliance requirements, a “U.S. Person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. §120.15 is required.  “U.S. Person” includes U.S. Citizen, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee. 

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• Bachelor's degree or higher 

• 5+ years of management experience

• 5+ years of experience in a product management specialist area or related field

• 5+ years of experience working with quality and/or manufacturing data systems

• 3+ years of experience in data analytics

• Experience developing strategic product and technical roadmaps

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• Masters or Ph.D. in engineering or manufacturing

• 10+ years of experience