Mike Varley
Senior Program Manager
Summary
Looking for a Program Management position drawing upon my education in supply chain and 5 years of direct automtive experiance. Experienced program management and supply chain management professional for a large global manufacturer of automotive electronic and mechanical components. Specialized in managing the development and launch of custom designed products across USA, Mexico, Canada and Japan to support successful new model vehicle launches across Honda, Toyota, Tesla, GM, VW.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior Program Manager
New Model Electronics, DENSO International America
Southfield, Michigan
04.2020 - Current
- Accountable for successful launch of electronic/display products shipping to Toyota.
- Primary leader over internal functions within a matrix organization including external interface to customer functional groups.
- Assigned and cascaded targets to align functions towards successful new model launch with emphasis upon Sienna, Highlander, Sequoia, and Tacoma vehicles.
- Provided leadership over cost, price and resulting profit condition of products supporting negotiations with customers during annual price reviews (APR) and internal profit improvement strategies
- Accountable for leading rollup of department annual sales plan activity including the coordination among all commodity groups to accurately forecast short and long term production sales revenue laying the foundations for prioritizing future spending and capacity planning.
Management Development Program
DENSO Japan
Nagoya, Japan
01.2020 - 04.2020
- Selected as a candidate to join Denso’s global corporate management development team in Japan.
- Program designed to build leadership skills, knowledge and apply structured problem solving methods as part of a team.
- Developed skills towards building effective business plans and provide commercial direction based upon sales solid forecasts and financial plans.
- Scope included North America / European / Asia sales routes.
- Lead team for new model launches for products supplied to Volkswagen, General Motor and Tesla.
- Acquired production forecasting and planning techniques including cascading forecast adjustments to provide global direction to regional sales routes for component purchasing, minimizing inventories and obsolescence avoidance.
- Part of new business pursuit team and quote development to expand global business.
Plant Coordinator
DENSO Manufacturing Michigan, DMMI
Kalamazoo, Michigan
04.2019 - 01.2020
- Accountable to factory president and executive team as the Cross Functional Team Lead for the development and launch of new HVAC, Condenser and Radiator production lines for Honda vehicles.
- Primary duties included reporting KPI’s for cost management, quality control, delivery on time in full, and safety to plant president and executive team.
- Successfully launched new HVAC, Condenser and Radiator products for the 21MY Acura TLX exceeding profitability target at start of production (SOP).
Program Manager
DENSO Ohio, DNOH
Dublin, Ohio
06.2018 - 04.2019
- New Model Thermal - Honda Account, Tasks
- Collaboration with Honda sales, design and manufacturing and DENSO internal plant and design teams to achieve cost, quality, delivery and safety KPIs
- Management of customer new model schedule to ensure timely and profitable development of thermal parts to support trial events and mass production launch.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Supply Chain Management
Michigan State University, Eli Broad College of Business
East Lansing, MI 08.2013 - 05.2018
Skills
CFT leadershipundefined
Timeline
Senior Program Manager
New Model Electronics, DENSO International America
04.2020 - Current
Management Development Program
DENSO Japan
01.2020 - 04.2020
Plant Coordinator
DENSO Manufacturing Michigan, DMMI
04.2019 - 01.2020
Program Manager
DENSO Ohio, DNOH
06.2018 - 04.2019
Bachelor of Arts - Supply Chain Management
Michigan State University, Eli Broad College of Business
08.2013 - 05.2018
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