Tara Bergin Email & Phone Number

Coventry, West Midlands, Gb

Programme Manager - PLM Transformation - Manage the successful delivery of the PLM portfolio from discovery through to launch- Ensure integration of PLM projects with dependant Enterprise projects incl. IERP, maintaining a strategic view across multiple customers and projects.- Collaborate with all product owners to lay the PLM roadmap over the enterprise project critical path and ensure the teams can deliver dependencies. - Develop and maintain outstanding working relationships with senior stakeholders and sponsors, acting as an escalation point.Global Process Lead for Issue Risk and Change Management- Define and continually improve Issue, Change and Risk processes to industry best practice for all JLR sites.- Define business requirements and user problem definition to populate and prioritise backlog for Scrum team to support agile delivery. - Continually benchmark technical development and processes against industry best practice ensuring competitive solutions using customer feedback in Sprint Reviews and User acceptance testing to refine backlog. - Engage stakeholders across the business and create a business wide community focused on Continuous Improvement effectively communicating Business Strategy and KPIs to monitor and analyse performance.- Develop testing and cases to support deployment, validation, knowledge transfer to the trainers and commissioning activities.- Develop business deployment model to meet strategic rollout with balance of scalability and tech ready dates ensuring no negative affect to Engineering and Manufacturing Operations business as usual.

Coventry, West Midlands, Gb

- Lead large cross functional ideas with impartial coordination between Engineering, Marketing and Logistics. - Lead daily Scrums and manage Trello boards for each carline Delivery team, ensuring flow of idea from concept team is compatible to the vehicle programme and its build timing.- Present project status and co-ordinate approval of cross functional ideas. - Programme management leadership to the internal electrical engineering team and the programme team.

Coventry, West Midlands, Gb

Programme Management Lead Engineer Discovery Sport and Range Rover Evoque.In addition to previous R&Rs:- Implemented a cross functional Issue Resolution cadence to risk assess, prioritise, contain and solve Issues to meet timing exceeding >25% weekly throughput target. - Market data analysis – provide direction on product offerings in line with customer needs.- Lead and supported 3 Process Improvement Projects, including application of a business wide IT process for partner emails to receive alerts from internal systems using 8D best practice.- Brazil Plant liaison and responsible for ensuring their specific requirements were met incl. managing shipping vehicles and parts to meet test schedules.

Coventry, West Midlands, Gb

Programme Management Engineer for new powertrain derivatives and the first PHEV on 3 product lines introduced to both UK and international plants.- Led Change Management meetings for effective prioritisation and progression of critical programme change.- Responsible for interdepartmental Deliverable assessment and Gateway approval ensuring internal and external quality standards are met. - Chaired weekly programme steering meeting attended by management/senior management from all functional areas ensuring the project was on target and aligning critical workstreams. - Collated and reported programme health data for board level and presentation to both internal and external directors.- China Plant liaison and responsible for ensuring their specific requirements were met incl. managing shipping vehicles and parts to meet test schedules.

Coventry, West Midlands, Gb

2 year Engineering Graduate Programme at JLR with Programme Management as my core role giving me a unique experience in both engineering and management. Roles- Special Operations team who are responsible for one off projects and bespoke vehicles giving me experience in custom engineering and customer requirements. It also gave me experience in creating portfolios and business cases. - IPACE Programme and Launch team working in Graz Austria. Management of essential build processes and requirements enhanced my innovative and creative problem solving and numeracy skills utilising engineering, mathematics and IT knowledge. - PR Media Drive Team working in Portugal. Experience in creating and adapting complex schedules and timing plans whilst also building on team working and customer communication. - Associate on the Manufacturing line in Solihull plant gave me a better understanding of the product and the transition from engineering parts to fitting and building them.- Graduate Network lead responsible for managing events incl. Technical Lunch Talks.