Senior Staff Project/Program Manager

• Manages all TPD Projects and lead cross functional teams that are focused on the delivery of product from kick-off to release for customers.
• Identifies needed resources for projects within Timing Division
• Monitors the product/program/project/portfolio from initiation through delivery, interfacing with external customers or field based employess on technical matters as needed.
• Help drive Timing Division`s overall expansion strategy to increase revenue and productivity by recruiting and ramping up team of strong technical project managers to drive roadmap execution of product portfolio
• Help select, develop, mentor and evaluate Timing Division PMO team capable of delivering on time and under schedule new products that meet stakeholder and customer expectations using Renesas New Product Development flows and methodologies.
• Develops Defines and executes project plans, schedules , budgets and deliverables at a portfolio level
• Ensure PMs exhibit full project ownership, become the got-to person for all internal teams for questions related to projects and have total involvement in all phases of product development process from start to finish.
• Responsible for tracking overall project metrics/KPI such as schedule, risks, scope, budget, cost entitlement and manufacturability for entire product portfolio.
• Participate in Annual Operation planning. Work with PM team to estimate, forecast and manage individual project as well as program/portfolio spend to ensure actual spend tracks closely with forecast and avoid surprises.
• Develop best practice guidelines, processes and execution methodologies for team to follow to continuously improve project execution.
• Oversee, guide and sanity check project planning. Ensure Timing Division PMO team is creating adequate forums for tracking execution progress, have well organized execution meetings where project teams are openly discussing, debating and making on the ground project decisions necessary to keep project moving forward.
• Build trust and collaborate closely with functional leadership from other functional teams for identifying and removing execution roadblocks, mitigate risks and improve efficiencies for continuously improving project execution
• Collaborate with X-functional and Peers from other business groups to drive collaboration and harvest best practices and lessons learned to keep Timing Product group in sync with One Renesas methodologies, tools and systems
• Work with demand creation, sales and marketing to align execution and sample priorities with market and customer needs to allow us to compete and win. Guide team to help prepare customer requested RFI, RFQ responses to bid on key business opportunities
• Effectively communicate with leadership, with the team and across the organization to keep stakeholders, leadership informed of project status, escalate early to identify and address issues before they start to impact execution metrics
• Guide team to prepare and effectively report project status updates at management decision point reviews as well as cross functional project progress reviews.

Requirements

• Delivery of projects to schedule, budget and quality. First time right mentality with execution
• Implement project management strategy to challenge status quo and drive higher efficiency of execution to scale up to the roadmap requirements
• Continuous focus on mitigating project risk by tracking progress, contingency planning and acting on small signals with high urgency and timely escalation to prevent fire fighting
• Develop a strong team that understands their role and responsibilities, collaborates with each other and others in the team and seamlessly executes with continuous focus on improving all execution vectors

Experience

• Experienced semiconductor profession with 10+ years of relevant experience working for a major analog semiconductor company
• 5+ years of hand`s on technical program/project management experience leading teams to develop broad market or custom mix-signal analog products for commercial, industrial or automotive applications. PMP certification is not a requirement but will be plus
• 5+ years of relevant experience being part of Product line NPI functional teams as a hands-on product, test, validation, design, quality or related function
• In depth understanding of new product introduction and product development flow from concept to production release. Exposure to Automotive process is a plus

Skills

• Proficient with industry standard project management tools such as MS Project, Jira, SharePoint, FMEA , Root Cause Analysis , Microsoft OneNote

Education

• BS, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, Masters or PhD EE is preferred