Customer Program Manager
Join Altris as Customer Program Manager and lead groundbreaking sodium-ion cell projects with top automotive OEMs—shaping a fossil-free future while growing in a fast-scaling, global company.
Your Role
As a Program Manager, you will lead technology programs with some of the most ambitious automotive OEMs in the world. You’ll be responsible for managing complex customer programs from start to finish — ensuring technical delivery, commercial success, and strong customer relationships. A key part of your responsibility will be to lead a cutting-edge cell development project, taking our next-generation sodium-ion technology from concept through to customer qualification and industrialization.
You will
- Lead and manage customer programs in the automotive segment, from program initiation to industrialization and delivery.
- Act as the main interface between Altris and key automotive customers, ensuring customer satisfaction and alignment with requirements.
- Drive a major cell development project, coordinating technical milestones, testing, validation, and scale-up in close collaboration with R&D and engineering teams.
- Manage program planning, execution, risk management, and reporting.
- Drive cross-functional collaboration between engineering, operations, quality, and commercial teams.
- Negotiate, manage, and monitor commercial terms, ensuring program profitability and compliance.
- Support business development by identifying and developing new customer opportunities together with the commercial team.
- Report to the CCO and contribute to building Altris’ program management excellence.
Your Profile
We’re looking for a Customer Program Manager who combines strong project management skills with commercial acumen and customer focus. You are structured, proactive, and skilled at building trust with demanding stakeholders in an international environment.
You have
- A university degree in Engineering, Business Administration, or similar.
- Proven experience in project or program management, preferably in the automotive or battery/energy storage sector.
- Formal project management education/certification (e.g. PMP, PRINCE2) is advantageous but not required.
- Strong commercial understanding and experience managing contracts and customer negotiations.
- Experience leading technology development projects, ideally in cell or battery R&D.
- Experience working with cross-functional, international teams.
- Excellent communication skills in English; Swedish is an advantage.
- A results-oriented mindset and ability to thrive in a fast-scaling company.
- Department
- Business Development
- Locations
- Norra Depågatan 2
- Remote status
- Hybrid
Colleagues
About Altris
Our journey began in 2015 when Ronnie Mogensen, a master’s student at the Ångström Advanced Battery Centre at Uppsala University, came across an enlightening study on sodium-ion batteries by the renowned scientist and Nobel laureate, John B. Goodenough. In search of a cathode for his master’s degree experiments, Ronnie teamed up with his supervisor, Associate Professor Reza Younesi, and material chemistry expert, Associate Professor William Brant. Together, they innovated their first Prussian White process.