Junior Executive – Program Management
Flex — Chennai, Tamil Nadu
₹3–7 LPA (HireSetu estimate) · 0–3 yrs exp · Freshers eligible · Full-time · Apply by 27 Oct 2026
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Quick answer: A support seat for program managers in Flex's Chennai customer focus team, built around reports, follow-ups, ERP data and confidential trackers. The 0-3 year band is open, but manufacturing program exposure is the differentiator.
From Flex's job posting
Job Summary
To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add a Junior Executive – Program Management, Chennai.
Program Management vertical support Program Manager’s, by virtual customer focus team member to support program management activities.
What a typical day looks like
- Coordinate and follow up on several program management reports
- within offshore Center (Global Business Services - GBS) & Site
- Customer Focus Team.
- Oversee/ Coordinates program activities with all inter-departments
- ensuring completion of all commitments made relative to agreed
- deliverable.
- Handles data of a highly confidential and critical in nature.
- Responsible for tracking relevant metrics and drive action items
- based on results within GBS / SITE Customer Focus Team.
- Demonstrate excellent communication and coordination skills &
- Customer Management Skill.
- Lead and drive the activities and ensure timely accurate delivery of our services
- Good with documentation skills at various stages of Program.
- Excellent understanding on Program Management concepts, New
- Product Introduction / New Product Development / different phases of Product life cycle
- Basic understanding /knowhow on the financial terms/ INCO Terms and its impact on the Profit & Loss on the business
- Excellent understanding on customer focus team role in managing the customer.
- Hands on experience on using the ERP tool like Baan/ SAP for PM role.
- Excellent knowledge on using tools like MS Excel, Power Point etc.
- Knowledge of MS -Project will be added advantage.
- Basic understanding on office automation or automation through
- Excel will be added advantage.
The experience we’re looking to add to our team
- Bachelor's degree from Engineering / Management or equivalent
- Typically requires a minimum of 0-3 years of related experience in PM Domain
- Preferably 1-3 years’ experience from Manufacturing Industry in
- Program Management Domain
- Excellent understanding on Program Management concepts, New
- Knowledge of MS -Project will be added advantage
- Basic understanding on office Automation or automation through Excel will be added advantage.
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HireSetu's note
The week is trackers and follow-ups
The day is mostly reports, trackers and chasing commitments across departments and the offshore GBS team. Program managers rely on this seat to know which action is late, which owner has gone quiet and what is ready for the next customer update. Confidential customer data passes through your trackers, so version control and clean notes matter more than polished slides. Much of the week goes into email and calls with people who do not report to you.
SAP and Excel carry the day
SAP is the first tool named in the skills field, so put it near the top if you have used any module. A single SAP transaction from an internship is more useful to show than a long list of soft skills. Excel is the other daily tool: trackers, pivots, lookups and simple automation. If you cleaned a messy status sheet or built a dashboard, say what it tracked and who relied on it. MS Project is a bonus, so include any plan you built with milestones and dependencies.
A manufacturing program seat
Program management in software means sprints and backlogs. Flex's listing uses manufacturing language: NPI, NPD, product lifecycle phases, Incoterms and P&L impact. The customer focus team sits close to operations, so expect schedules, approvals and factory-side deadlines. A scrum background will not map cleanly onto this.
The path after this seat
This is a support entry into manufacturing program management. The useful exposure is the customer focus team, NPI and NPD phases, and ERP reporting. After a year or two, the natural next title is program coordinator or specialist, with more direct customer ownership. The programs you support and the amount of direct customer contact decide how much you learn, so get a clear read on that before joining.
Drafted with AI from Flex's job posting and checked by Prashanth Jakkula before publishing. See our Editorial Policy.
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