Program Manager, Market Development
Program Manager, Market Development
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18-07-2025
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18-07-2025
Job Description
About Us
Highland Electric Fleets electrification-as-a-service (EaaS) model aims to make electric school buses and other clean heavy duty vehicles attainable for every district across the US and Canada. Our turnkey solution tackles financing vehicle procurement infrastructure upgrade and maintenance to create a reliable and affordable fleet for our customers.
We know that cleaner buses create healthier communities and its our mission to eliminate the barriers to better student health and cleaner air - just 10 electric buses will reduce the pediatric asthma risk for 1500 students!*
We are looking for candidates that want to help support this mission
*Source: American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. Based on estimates for Highland customer with large fleet
Summary:
A Tiger Team is a small elite task force for when you need to act fast and solve business- critical issues or complex problems that often involve work across traditional departments. The team needs to have the freedom to think creatively and make decisions quickly so they can drive projects to completion on time and on budget even though the work will involve numerous people beyond the Tiger Team staff. As such the team must have exceptional project management skills attention to detail ability to communicate effectively as well as a knack for uncovering- and ultimately resolving - challenges in the implementation process.
The Highland Tiger Team (currently consisting of a Program Manager and Director) sit within the Market Development department and are tasked with driving cross departmental initiatives that typically fall outside the scope of traditional Highland project development. The Tiger Team staff are responsible for organizing members of other departments as necessary to execute on a specific project. Some examples of the types of projects the Tiger Team manages includes: activities required by grant agreements partnerships with companies or other organizations
and certain types of R&D that require the work of multiple Highland teams.
Job Description:
The Program Manager role requires someone who can immediately take charge of managing the day-to-day implementation of incentive projects to ensure alignment and rapid progress. The Program Manager also helps to oversee a high-profile group of superintendents to advise on strategic Highland activities identify and solve district pain points as well as provide soft introductions to school district leadership. Other projects will be added to the Program Managers portfolio as the needs of the business evolve.
The Program Manager is a critical internal project management role that will support the daily facilitation of a cross functional task force created to expedite and improve Highlands overall performance.
Responsibilities:
- Under supervision of the Director conducts project management of the Tiger Teams cross departmental initiatives that typically fall outside the scope of traditional Highland project development.
- Develops clear project plans with timelines staffing plans budget (when necessary objectives and key performance indicators.
- With support from the Director and Executive Team helps bring together project teams in a way that creates buy-in around project plans and a clear understanding of what needs to be done.
- Manages the day-to-day activities of a project team while also working as a team member responsible for specific elements of the work
- Organizes and with the Directors support leads regular project status meetings with a goal of uncovering challenges and developing solutions.
- Creates project status reports and works with the Director to clearly communicate them to leadership and as necessary other parts of the Company.
- Works with the Director to identify problems quickly communicate them transparently to leadership and develop and implement solutions.
- Reviews the work of the project team ensures adherence to quality standards.
- Ensures that projects meet their KPIs and are executed on time and on budget
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree with 3-5 years of experience implementing projects in a cross functional environment.
- A background in consulting or similar is a plus as is experience with transportation electrification clean energy and/or project development
Preferred Qualifications:
- Strong time-management planning and organizational skills
- Motivational self-starter with ability to multi-task prioritize and work within the parameters of a gated and deadline driven environment
- Strong project management skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Dedicated attention to detail
- Ability to recognize and address problems with expedited solutions
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
$110000 - $125000 a year
What You Can Expect from Highland:
Competitive base salary and performance-based bonus program
A supportive highly collaborative team-oriented environment
Opportunities to make a difference be heard add value and be recognized
Growth and development with a leader in this new and exciting industry
Ability to work with bright innovative and forward-thinking colleagues
Health Vision and Dental coverage for employees & their dependents
Life insurance public transportation assistance
Generous Paid Time Off
401(k) program and company match
Highland Electric Fleets provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin age disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements Highland Electric Fleets complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoff recall transfer leaves of absence compensation and training.
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
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