The Project Management Excellence is responsible for the following
- Ensure the team aware of and follow Product Development Process
- Owner of Product Development Process and rollout and continuous improvement
- Ensure project team understand the Product Development Process correctly by teaching and coaching
- Audit Product Development Process execution in project
- Report Product Development Process execution issues with corrective plan or precaution plan
- Follow up corrective plan or precaution plan and ensure the execution issue close.
- Monitor project KPIs with trend analysis monthly
- Support project management in Daptiv (Enterprise Project Management & Resource Management tool)
- Upgrade Process and provide guideline based on user challenges and feedback.
- Escalate issues and request for supports to the appropriate leaderships when necessary
He/she should be well versed in global & regional project management disciplines/processes/tools, capable of grasping how the company value chain works, have ability to think and act both locally and globally, and is both hands-on in terms of guiding his/her team with respect to addressing tactical execution issues relative to keeping projects on track.
PRINCIPAL DUTIES
- Lead initiative execution across functions (for example, Product Management, Engineering, P rocurement, Manufacturing, Marketing, Finance, and Sales).
- Anchor, Educate and Train project team in terms of Process, Standard and Governance in regard to
- on-time,
- at or below target cost,
- meeting market requirements and consistent with JCH Product Attribute Leadership Strategy
- launch quality, and
- project budget and business case
- Overall project management improvement measures will include
- product development cycle-time reduction
- share of market gain
- cost of poor quality reduction
- YoY product cost reduction
- Drive and track project management metrics for product development excellence and continuous improvement
- Operate the project management scorecard for overall project management execution
- Lead the project team to manage detailed work plans and action logs as tracking and feedback tools across all projects. Establish a culture of strong project management as evidenced by the key performance indicators.
- Manage product development resources and budgets at a high-level helping to both shape and staff the overall product development roadmap.
- Identify areas requiring change management support and support activities as required
- Work directly with external support on specific initiatives (consulting, IT, etc. ) - set scope and manage cadence/budge
- Improve our System, Process and Organization
- Improve and lead Engineering budget and resource planning by using Daptiv (Enterprise Project and Resource management tool)
- Develop and anchor Product Development process
- Improve Data quality in the systems
- Implement Agile development process for IoT & Software
- Manage ODM/ OEM project process and organization
Job Requirements
- Deep understanding and passion for product development process and operations of the company and its parent company, Johnson Controls, Inc.
- Deep understanding of cross-functional product development and team management of cross-functional project managers.
- Ability to structure work, manage projects, ideate and run processes/ tools
- Strong logical thinking and problem solving skills
- Ability to engage across the company functions, regions, and organization
- Strong analytical skills, particularly but not limited to financial literacy
- Strong written communication skills - ability to synthesize and communicate executive level messages
- Strong oral communication skills - ability to engage senior leadership and working level leaders
- Strong executive presence with ability to listen, collaborate, influence leaders across organization
- Team player and relationship builder
- Business level Chinse and English. Additional capability in Japanese preferred.
- High cross-cultural awareness
- Commitment to excellence
Experience
- 6 - 7years of cumulative experience relative to engineering and product development project management in automotive, industrial goods, consumer products or durables manufacturing
- Operational track record of product development project management excellence especially including management of multi-location, multi-cultural project management teams
- Demonstrated experience and success developing project management skills and disciplines with relatively inexperienced team members and organizations
- Expert with respect with project management approaches, processes and tools
- Travel will vary based on business demands, but is estimated at 5-10%
Education
- Bachelor s degree in an engineering discipline required
- MBA preferred
