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Program Manager

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Published:   2022/06/12

Type

Full time

Industry

Automotive

Category

Program management

Salary

¥ 9,000,000 ~ ¥ 11,000,000

Required language

English: Fluent

Location

Hiroshima

Visa

Visa Required

Description

Overview:

Responsible to be the primary contact with customers and to lead the programs in Japan to meet technical requirements, quality, cost and delivery objectives for Japanese customers.

Role & Responsibilities:

  • Work with customers to obtain and/or define system requirements and specifications as defined in the Statement of Work and/or the Contract.
  • Analyze customer requirements, create an internal working specification/scope statement, and communicate these requirements throughout the organization as per procedure defined.
  • Build and maintain close working relationship with customers
  • Co-work with Execution PMs to define required program resources, costs and to establish key milestones, deliverables and targets.
  • Track program system master schedules, control costs, performance and deliverables, and ensure that they are met.
  • Ensure that the functional teams are able to communicate effectively with each other in order to support fast and high quality responses to the customers supported.
  • Resolve conflicts as necessary to ensure success of program and customer satisfaction.
  • Escalate risks to appropriate leadership in spirit of early intervention; follow defined escalation protocol.
  • Lead all program related issues including technical design and implementation.
  • Drive continuous improvement and reinforce cost reduction and improvement of program efficiency activities as defined through KPI process.
  • Contribute to maintain and continually improve company’s competitive position, gross profit margins and profitability.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Engineering;
  • 10+ years of experience in automotive Engineering, Sales and/or Program Management Roles,
  • Design engineering experience an asset.
  • PMP and MBA preferred.
  • Working knowledge of the processes of automotive industries; APQP, IATF16949 and ISO9001.
  • Working knowledge of Program/Project Management.
  • Fluent Japanese (JLPT N2 or higher)
  • Fluent English

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