Program Manager

Job Summary:

Renesas's automotive MCUs holds the No. 1 world-wide market share, and we are now aiming to expand our product lineup to achieve further business growth. Therefore,creating a need to strengthen the organization accordingly. Hardware Development is a vital element necessary to expand our business and this is also why we would like to invite talented Project Managers to join us on our mission.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive the Project development for automotive MCU products from Planning
to MP (Mass Production) phase on schedule.• Collaborate closely across multiple departments such as Customers, SoftwareTeams, Marketing, Engineering, Finance, Sales and Vendors/Suppliers duringproject development phase.• Deploy best Program Management Practices: Bottoms-up planning,Dependency mapping, Critical path analysis and Risk mitigation using industrystandard planning tools such as MS-Project for Project planning andexecution.• Monitor the Project development progress and report the status on a regularbasis and escalate issues whenever needed. Also provide regular Projectupdates to the Senior Management.• Coordinate and Conduct Project Gate reviews.• Take personal accountability to drive the projects and deliver them onschedule. Ensure proper project meeting cadence is in place and with regularfollow-ups on ALL Action Items to resolve any open issues.• Support Program Manager and project team in all organizational activitiesduring the project development.

Qualifications and Skills

• Minimum 10 years project management experience in the
engineering sector ideally in the automotive field• Solid technical background with understanding and/or hands-onexperience in hardware development• Able to plan and manage complex Projects spanning acrossmultiple departments• Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills• Excellent written and verbal communication skills• Solid organizational skills including attention to detail andmultitasking skills• Expertise in Microsoft Office 365 including advanced skills in MSProject• Atlassian JIRA and Confluence• PMP / PMA certificate is a plus• Confident English speaker in a global business environment