Vehicle functional manager - Rabat

Company :

ALTEN MAROC, a branch of the world leader in engineering and technology consulting founded in 2008 and present in Fes, Rabat, Tetouan, and Casablanca, now has over 2200 employees and aims for a center of excellence of 3300 ALTEN employees by the end of 2027. It is now a strategic player in supporting the professional development of engineers.

Our mission: to meet the technological ambitions of our clients - major international clients - in the automotive, rail, R&D and IT, telecommunications, and media sectors.

Joining ALTEN Morocco means joining an ecosystem of excellence and benefiting from:

• A personalized and evolving career path

• An ambitious skills development policy

• A stimulating, collaborative, and meaningful work environment

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Company culture :

Alten Maroc is defined by a deeply collaborative culture, focused on people, trust, and strong team support, with hands-on managers who guide and develop talent.
This environment is enhanced by a strong drive for innovation, encouraging creativity, initiative, and experimentation across projects.
A structured and disciplined organization ensures efficiency, rigor, and quality in engineering delivery.
Performance and ambition are part of the culture as well, supporting collective success while maintaining a positive and caring atmosphere.

Job :

• Ensure vehicle functional convergence by consolidating inputs from multiple System Teams.
• Maintain alignment between functional validation plans and project objectives (homologation, captive fleets, etc.).
•  Participate in project governance meetings, PI planning sessions and prioritization activities.
• Build, maintain and communicate project functional maturity scorecards and KPIs.
•  Identify functional risks and propose convergence or recovery action plans. 
• Negotiate timing adjustments when required to ensure project convergence.
• Support prioritization of activities according to project constraints and resource availability.
• Ensure consistency and execution of vehicle functional and dysfunctional validation plans.
• Monitor software maturity and validate alignment between software deliveries and validation activities.
• Track execution status of validation plans and proactively report deviations.
• Coordinate with vehicle technical experts to support issue resolution and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Consolidate functional synthesis for project milestone assessments.
• Review functional assessments and contribute to cross-functional resource convergence.
• Build Quality-Cost-Time-Performance (QCTP) analyses when functional arbitrations are required.  Consolidate functional maturity status from different stakeholders and disciplines.
•  Work closely with Product Safety Managers (PSM) to ensure robustness of safety deliverables and support safety assessments.
• Track software deliveries and associated KPIs to ensure project readiness.

Required profile :

Hard skills

• Master's degree (Bac +5) in Engineering
• Minimum 5 years of experience
• Excellent knowledge of vehicle functions
• Mastery of functional requirements
• Knowledge of safety procedures
• Mastery of vehicle function standards
• Proficiency in the following tools: Word, Excel, PLM, Sirius

Soft skills

• Good communication level (French/English)
• Transversal management
• Organized
• Good stress handling
• Team mindset
• Negotiation
• Leadership
• Coordination

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Desired personality traits :

Need for objectivity Tenacity Organization Rationalism Respect of the rules