Highlights
Position: Technical Program Product Manager II Location: North reading, MA Duration: 4 Months Job Type: Temporary Assignment Work Type: Onsite Job Description: The Material Program Manager (MPM) is responsible for driving end-to-end material readiness across all phases of the product lifecycle-from New Product Introduction (NPI) through beta builds and into General Availability (GA). Data-Driven Risk Management & Reporting - Strong analytical skills to build and maintain material readiness dashboards, identify supply risks proactively, and communicate trade-offs to leadership using metrics and data (Excel/Smartsheet/BI tools).
Numbers & Facts
| Location | North Reading, MA |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $119.59 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is a global technology leader that is transforming the way people shop, consume content, and interact with digital services. With a strong presence across e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence, the company is known for its customer-centric approach, innovation-driven culture, and large-scale global impact. It continues to invest in building products and services that improve everyday life while supporting businesses, communities, and economies worldwide.
Position: Technical Program Product Manager II
Location: North reading, MA
Duration: 4 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Job Description:
- The Material Program Manager (MPM) is responsible for driving end-to-end material readiness across all phases of the product lifecycle-from New Product Introduction (NPI) through beta builds and into General Availability (GA).
- This role serves as the critical bridge between engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing operations, ensuring that material strategies are aligned with product development milestones and business objectives.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own and execute the Material Readiness Report, providing cross-functional visibility into material risk, lead times, supply health, and readiness-to-build status
- Drive material program governance including ECO-to-PO change management, ensuring engineering changes are translated into actionable supply chain execution without disrupting production schedules
- Develop and maintain material program mechanisms (dashboards, trackers, escalation frameworks) that enable proactive risk identification and mitigation
- Coordinate with engineering, procurement, contract manufacturing, and quality teams to manage BOM (Bill of Materials) maturity from prototype through volume production
- Lead material allocation decisions, resolve supply constraints, and drive root-cause corrective actions for material shortages or receipt holds
- Manage material phase-in/phase-out strategies aligned to engineering change orders and product revision schedules
- Establish and improve repeatable processes for material program management that scale across multiple concurrent programs
- Communicate material risks, trade-offs, and recommendations to senior leadership with clarity and data-driven insights
Years of Prior Experience Required to Qualify
- 5+ years of experience in material program management, supply chain program management, or NPI/operations program management within a hardware product development environment (robotics, consumer electronics, industrial systems, or similar).
4 MUST Have Skills
- BOM Management & NPI Lifecycle Expertise - Demonstrated experience managing Bills of Materials across development phases (EVT/DVT/PVT or equivalent), including BOM maturity tracking, material qualification, and build readiness assessments
- ERP/MRP Systems Proficiency (e.g., Oracle, SAP, or equivalent) - Ability to navigate procurement systems, track purchase orders, manage material demand signals, and interpret supply planning outputs
- Cross-Functional Program Management - Proven ability to lead and influence without authority across engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, and quality organizations to drive material decisions and resolve constraints
- Data-Driven Risk Management & Reporting - Strong analytical skills to build and maintain material readiness dashboards, identify supply risks proactively, and communicate trade-offs to leadership using metrics and data (Excel/Smartsheet/BI tools)
Skills:
- Experience- Powerpoint/Excel
- BOM (Bill of Materials)
- Cross-Functional Project Management
- Data-flow analysis
- Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP)
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.