Senior Systems Program Manager

Schneider Electric has a meaningful opportunity available for a Senior Systems Program Manager in our Power Products division.

You will work for a company consistently rated by Fortune as one of the "Great Places to Work", by Glassdoor as "Best Places To Work" and by TIME as the #1 "Most Sustainable Company in the World."

Mission

• Lead customer proofs of concept and strategic account programs for Schneider Electric solutions using Solid State Transformer technologies.
• Convert agreed technical and commercial objectives into an executable program plan, coordinate delivery across teams in the US, Europe and China, and maintain disciplined control of scope, schedule, dependencies, risk, decisions and stakeholder communication.
• Ensure that each Point of Contact (PoC) produces objective evidence against agreed success criteria and supports a clear decision on the next phase.

Scope & Enviornment

• Global program role supporting the US hub, strategic customers and distributed Schneider Electric teams.
• Programs may combine new product development, customer-site integration and validation across SST, medium-voltage equipment, BESS, AI rack power, cooling, controls and digital systems.
• The role coordinates internal workstreams, laboratories, suppliers and customer stakeholders, and may lead multiple concurrent PoCs or related strategic projects.

Key Responsibilities

Program Framing and Governance:
• Establish the PoC charter, scope, success criteria, deliverables, work breakdown, governance, decision rights and phase gates.
• Confirm assumptions, exclusions and acceptance responsibilities with technical, commercial and customer stakeholders.

Integrated planning and execution:
• Build and maintain the integrated schedule across engineering, procurement, laboratories, software, manufacturing, logistics, site readiness and customer activities.
• Manage critical path, dependencies, resources and recovery actions.

Risk, issue and change control:
• Own the program risk and opportunity register, issue resolution, change control and escalation process.
• Ensure that scope, schedule, cost and technical consequences are visible before commitments are changed.

Cross-region and customer coordination:
• Coordinate execution across the US, Europe and China teams and maintain a single, reliable program view.
• Lead customer progress reviews, document decisions and actions, and align stakeholder expectations throughout the program.

Evidence, handover and learning:
• Ensure that validation evidence is captured against agreed success criteria.
• Lead phase-gate readiness, final PoC reporting, transition to productization or deployment, and structured lessons learned for future programs.

Qualifications

Education:


* Bachelor or Master degree in Engineering, Program Management or a closely related discipline.

Formal project or program management certification is valuable.


* Engineering education or equivalent pra...