Yanfeng

Lead and coordinate automotive product launch teams to meet scope, timing, and quality targets, ensuring customer satisfaction and financial performance. | Requires 8+ years in automotive or related industries, program management experience, and knowledge of automotive design/launch processes, which are not reflected in your experience. | Responsibilities Leadership: Represent the Simultaneous Development Team (SDT) in a professional way to the customer and YFAI management. Motivate the team to meet commitments to the established timing. Build team technically and personally through mentoring and coaching. Resolve conflicts between team members, departments, and the customer. Negotiate with internal and external groups, vendors, and customer. Ability to identify root cause of a problem, develop corrective action and lead team to resolution. Simultaneous Development Team (SDT) Management: Act as the central communication point for the SDT to ensure that each SDT member is aware of their deliverables, timing, and commitments at all times. Trains and coaches the SDT in YFAI Product Launch process to ensure compliance. Manages the SDT to meet timing, cost, manufacturing, quality, and cost targets. Establishes the SDT meeting cadence and monitors attendance to assure the correct team members are present at each meeting. Creates agenda, schedules meetings, and keeps the meeting on task. Provides team information needed to perform tasks. Actively includes suppliers as a member of the team. Scope Management: Communicate the impact of scope changes to the customer and SDT in a timely manner in terms of cost, timing, product, quality of execution and impact on the program. Manage the program scope and ensure all scope changes are captured in the appropriate documents. Utilize the scope change approval process for internal and customer scope changes. Differentiate scope changes from engineering changes. Manage the risk of scope changes and keep management informed of change and effect on the program. Ensure that financial performance is protected and enhanced by customer driven scope changes. 0-0-0-100-90 Planning: Attain 0 recordable accidents, 0 rejected parts per million, 0 delivery misses, 100% of financial commitments at 90 days post launch. Anticipate risk caused by late tasks and changes by developing mitigation strategy. Establish a documented implementation plan and containment action for engineering changes at launch. Work with suppliers to ensure all necessary resources are in place for launch. Provide on-site plant support throughout pre-production builds. Follow up on MSO to ensure plant material functions are ready. Foster effective working relationship between Plant launch team and CBU team. Maintains and manages scope changes within one year of launch. Bundle late changes into pre-launch and post-launch buckets to keep risk manageable. Financial Roadmap & Financial Reporting: Schedules Finance SDT meeting once a month, from Development Start through Post Launch. Meet the financial targets of the program and manages Financial Roadmap dates, action and cost. Solid financial base to understand how to utilize SDT to impact financial measures and the relationship between financial measures. Ensures the product(s) is designed to meet BOM cost targets by facilitating between engineering and finance to meet targets. Timing: Ability to create work breakdown structure (WBS) with customer milestones/deliverables used as the foundation. Gate timing developed from timeline that meets YFAI and customer firewalls. Responsible for the timeline and related timing documents, i.e. prototype schedule, CAD schedule, part matrices, etc. are consistent. Program timeline is utilized in weekly SDT to clearly communicate deliverables and due dates. Responsible for Gate exit reviews being held on time, regardless of whether or not exit can be achieved. Create issue lists that are clear and concise with due dates and deliverables. Product: Responsible for leading team to meet Craftsmanship objectives, action plan to address gaps. Audit customer samples for customer satisfaction. Manage CAD schedule, prototype build schedule, and testing schedule and ensure any gaps are addressed to meet timeline. Audit ED, DV, and PV testing results and manage timing and corrective action to support launch. Facilitates change management meeting. Meet applicable product requirements including specifications, functional expectations, and regulatory requirements. Customer Satisfaction: Fosters an effective personal working relationship with appropriate customer contacts. Maintain YFAI and personal credibility with customer. Recognized by customer as key contact for program implementation. Meets dates and commitments via customer open issues list which directs team for prompt responses. Communicate with data for scope changes with cost, quality, and timing impact. Gain internal consensus on scope changes prior to communicating to customer. Archive and retain key customer correspondence and documents. Maintain regular contact with customer to communicate problems early. Does not avoid difficult issues or decisions. Understand customer’s organization and procedures in detail. Global Management Skills: Function in a different culture while matching their interpersonal style to the culture they are working in. Has awareness and respect for different culture. Demonstrate an interest in other cultures. Performance Measures: YFAI Program Manager Performance Assessment. Qualifications Bachelor's degree in engineering or business; or equivalent experience. 8+ years' work experience in one or more of the following areas preferred: Engineering, Manufacturing/Quality, and/or Finance. Prior program management experience in automotive industry preferred. 3+ years of working experience in the Automotive Industry including at least one vehicle launch. Demonstrated knowledge of automotive design/launch process. Proven problem solving and negotiation class experience desired. Working knowledge of Program Management process and tools. OEM experience preferred. PMP Certification desired. Travel required up to 20% of the time. Essential Common Requirements for all Employees: International Operating System (IOS): Understand, apply, and meet all function-related IOS requirements. Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS): Understand, apply, and meet all function-related EHS requirements. Product Safety: Understand, apply, and meet all function-related Product Safety requirements. Compliance: Understand, apply, and meet all function-related IT/ Information Security and confidentiality of YFAI information requirements. Must comply with all company policies and procedures. Employee must have the ability to work additional hours and/ or overtime as needed or assigned to complete job duties on time. Ability to multitask, interact politely and professionally with customers, suppliers, and vendors, and work cooperatively with employees at all levels. Ability to maintain predictable and regular attendance, arrive to designated location on time, or be at assigned location ready to work for assignment (plant, cooperate office, or remote). Thank you for your interest in Yanfeng. As one of the world’s largest automotive suppliers, we are creating the future of mobility as a collaborative, global team. With a focus on sustainability and innovation, as well as a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, we are a company with an established history and a bright future. In North America, Yanfeng is focused on enhancing the mobility experience through the design, development, and manufacturing of automotive interiors, seating, electronics, and passive safety systems. Founded in Shanghai in 1936, Yanfeng’s history of innovation and craftsmanship have since expanded the business globally. Currently, Yanfeng has more than 240 locations and approximately 55,000 employees worldwide. Become a part of something more. Join our team as we grow and create the future of mobility, together. ABOUT THE TEAM Yanfeng is committed to developing our employees through opportunities like development programs, continuous learning, mentorship, and volunteerism. Our industry-leading team is looking to recruit highly motivated and engaged talent. Upon joining Yanfeng, new employees will get a detailed introduction through our comprehensive onboarding process. Advance your career with personal and professional growth as a part of our global team!

Lead and coordinate the Simultaneous Development Team to meet project scope, timing, quality, and cost targets, while managing scope changes and fostering customer satisfaction. | Requires 8+ years in automotive or related industry, program management experience, and relevant technical or engineering background, which are not reflected in your resume. | Responsibilities JOB DESCRIPTION Leadership: Represent the Simultaneous Development Team (SDT) in a professional way to the customer and YFAI management. Motivate the team to meet commitments to the established timing. Build team technically and personally through mentoring and coaching. Resolve conflicts between team members, departments, and the customer. Negotiate with internal and external groups, vendors, and customer. Ability to identify root cause of a problem, develop corrective action and lead team to resolution. Simultaneous Development Team (SDT) Management: Act as the central communication point for the SDT to ensure that each SDT member is aware of their deliverables, timing, and commitments at all times. Trains and coaches the SDT in YFAI Product Launch process to ensure compliance. Manages the SDT to meet timing, cost, manufacturing, quality, and cost targets. Establishes the SDT meeting cadence and monitors attendance to assure the correct team members are present at each meeting. Creates agenda, schedules meetings, and keeps the meeting on task. Provides team information needed to perform tasks. Actively includes suppliers as a member of the team. Scope Management: Communicate the impact of scope changes to the customer and SDT in a timely manner in terms of cost, timing, product, quality of execution and impact on the program. Manage the program scope and ensure all scope changes are captured in the appropriate documents. Utilize the scope change approval process for internal and customer scope changes. Differentiate scope changes from engineering changes. Manage the risk of scope changes and keep management informed of change and effect on the program. Ensure that financial performance is protected and enhanced by customer driven scope changes. 0-0-0-100-90 Planning: Attain 0 recordable accidents, 0 rejected parts per million, 0 delivery misses, 100% of financial commitments at 90 days post launch. Anticipate risk caused by late tasks and changes by developing mitigation strategy. Establish a documented implementation plan and containment action for engineering changes at launch. Work with suppliers to ensure all necessary resources are in place for launch. Provide on-site plant support throughout pre-production builds. Follow up on MSO to ensure plant material functions are ready. Foster effective working relationship between Plant launch team and CBU team. Maintains and manages scope changes within one year of launch. Bundle late changes into pre-launch and post-launch buckets to keep risk manageable. Financial Roadmap & Financial Reporting: Schedules Finance SDT meeting once a month, from Development Start through Post Launch. Meet the financial targets of the program and manages Financial Roadmap dates, action and cost. Solid financial base to understand how to utilize SDT to impact financial measures and the relationship between financial measures. Ensures the product(s) is designed to meet BOM cost targets by facilitating between engineering and finance to meet targets. Timing: Ability to create work breakdown structure (WBS) with customer milestones/deliverables used as the foundation. Gate timing developed from timeline that meets YFAI and customer firewalls. Responsible for the timeline and related timing documents, i.e. prototype schedule, CAD schedule, part matrices, etc. are consistent. Program timeline is utilized in weekly SDT to clearly communicate deliverables and due dates. Responsible for Gate exit reviews being held on time, regardless of whether or not exit can be achieved. Create issue lists that are clear and concise with due dates and deliverables. Product: Responsible for leading team to meet Craftsmanship objectives, action plan to address gaps. Audit customer samples for customer satisfaction. Manage CAD schedule, prototype build schedule, and testing schedule and ensure any gaps are addressed to meet timeline. Audit ED, DV, and PV testing results and manage timing and corrective action to support launch. Facilitates change management meeting. Meet applicable product requirements including specifications, functional expectations, and regulatory requirements. Customer Satisfaction: Fosters an effective personal working relationship with appropriate customer contacts. Maintain YFAI and personal credibility with customer. Recognized by customer as key contact for program implementation. Meets dates and commitments via customer open issues list which directs team for prompt responses. Communicate with data for scope changes with cost, quality, and timing impact. Gain internal consensus on scope changes prior to communicating to customer. Archive and retain key customer correspondence and documents. Maintain regular contact with customer to communicate problems early. Does not avoid difficult issues or decisions. Understand customer’s organization and procedures in detail. Global Management Skills: Function in a different culture while matching their interpersonal style to the culture they are working in. Has awareness and respect for different culture. Demonstrate an interest in other cultures. Performance Measures: YFAI Program Manager Performance Assessment. Qualifications • Bachelor's degree in engineering or business; or equivalent experience. • 8+ years' work experience in one or more of the following areas preferred: Engineering, Manufacturing/Quality, and/or Finance. • Prior program management experience in automotive industry preferred. • 3+ years of working experience in the Automotive Industry including at least one vehicle launch. • Demonstrated knowledge of automotive design/launch process. • Proven problem solving and negotiation class experience desired. • Working knowledge of Program Management process and tools. • OEM experience preferred. • PMP Certification desired. • Travel required up to 20% of the time. Essential Common Requirements For All Employees • International Operating System (IOS): Understand, apply, and meet all function-related IOS requirements. • Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS): Understand, apply, and meet all function-related EHS requirements. • Product Safety: Understand, apply, and meet all function-related Product Safety requirements. • Compliance: Understand, apply, and meet all function-related IT/ Information Security and confidentiality of YFAI information requirements. • Must comply with all company policies and procedures. • Employee must have the ability to work additional hours and/ or overtime as needed or assigned to complete job duties on time. • Ability to multitask, interact politely and professionally with customers, suppliers, and vendors, and work cooperatively with employees at all levels. • Ability to maintain predictable and regular attendance, arrive to designated location on time, or be at assigned location ready to work for assignment (plant, cooperate office, or remote). About Us Thank you for your interest in Yanfeng. As one of the world’s largest automotive suppliers, we are creating the future of mobility as a collaborative, global team. With a focus on sustainability and innovation, as well as a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, we are a company with an established history and a bright future. In North America, Yanfeng is focused on enhancing the mobility experience through the design, development, and manufacturing of automotive interiors, seating, electronics, and passive safety systems. Founded in Shanghai in 1936, Yanfeng’s history of innovation and craftsmanship have since expanded the business globally. Currently, Yanfeng has more than 240 locations and approximately 55,000 employees worldwide. Become a part of something more. Join our team as we grow and create the future of mobility, together. About The Team ABOUT THE TEAM Yanfeng is committed to developing our employees through opportunities like development programs, continuous learning, mentorship, and volunteerism. Our industry-leading team is looking to recruit highly motivated and engaged talent. Upon joining Yanfeng, new employees will get a detailed introduction through our comprehensive onboarding process. Advance your career with personal and professional growth as a part of our global team!

Leading and developing teams, creating operational strategies, and managing business growth. | Extensive experience in sales, operations, and team management, but limited direct experience in talent acquisition or HR leadership. | Yanfeng Automotive Interiors (YFAI) is the global leader in automotive interiors. YFAI is redefining how people relax, work and play in their vehicle interiors today and decades from now. Headquartered in Shanghai, the company has 114 manufacturing plants and technical centers in 20 countries and more than 33,000 employees globally. They design, develop and manufacture interior components for all automakers. Established in 2015, Yanfeng Automotive Interiors is a joint venture between Yanfeng Automotive Trim Systems Co., Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Huayu Automotive Systems Co., Ltd. (HASCO), the component group of SAIC Motor Corporation Limited (SAIC Motor), and Adient, the global leader in automotive seating. For more information, please visit www.YFAI.com. Job Summary The TA Manager provides leadership, support, advocacy and vision to technical recruiters and support staff who provide recruiting support to hiring managers across North America. The TA Department strategically recruits and/or develops the right talent to meet business demand, address skills and leadership gaps, align to the culture, and tracks to the 5-year business plan. The TA Manager will implement and prioritize programs, initiatives, communications and processes that best strengthen people and organizational effectiveness. Essential functions of the job: • Develops new strategies and programs to attract candidates. • Manages recruiting team. • Works closely with recruiting managers in other regions to share best practices, provide assistance on critical needs and coordinate on national-level initiatives. • Explores the market best practices in the recruitment and staffing and implement appropriate best practices in the organization. • Monitors and works to reduce the costs of the recruitment process. • Develop, implement, evaluate and optimize integrated talent management programs including talent identification and acquisition, on-boarding and rotational programs, and projects for organization talent pipeline build-up & maintenance in the region. • Partner with Business Leaders/Clients to identify accurate problem statements, external talent gaps, and effective solutions for individual, team and organizational performance issues aligned with business needs and outcomes. • Support Workforce Planning by working with HR teams and business leaders to understand talent needs and pro-actively implement actions that ensures the right talent, in the right role at the right time. • Research effective talent identification methodology and assessment tools, attend career fairs, assessment center or other events for optimizing talent acquisition efficiency. • Consult with HRBPs and Business Leaders on all phases of talent management such as performance management, succession management, talent selection and assessment, talent pipeline building, etc. • Support onboarding process of new employees through year one. • Lead and/or guide the design, development and implementation of the initiatives and action plans • Define/track key success metrics and measure the effectiveness of initiatives and action items • Partner across functions and locations to align on priorities, approaches, processes, and metrics • Lead the facilitation of meetings, focus groups, lessons learned, and other working sessions to address complex problems, align solutions, and improve capabilities • Prepare budgetary recommendations that meet goals and provide for effective programs and initiatives • Partner with the Learning and Development team to promote leadership, career path progression, rotational and HiPo programs, diversity & inclusion, succession planning, performance management, org design, culture, and demographics • Ability to prioritize and multi-task in a fluid, fast-paced, high-volume environment • Comfortable working in a team environment • Strong interpersonal and communications skills • Ability to develop and maintain collaborative and effective working relationships, at all levels, with clarity and precision, both written and verbal Required Qualifications • Bachelor’s degree Human Resources or related field • 5 years of related work experience • Supervisory experience preferred