Project Manager

• “Owning” the project to be fully responsible for the success of the project. Manage project profitability and process efficiency and assigning the responsibility for these improvements to the relevant stakeholders or act on the opportunities.
• Building and maintaining a customer relationship (incl. "face to the customer" role) by aligning and defining the technical requirements and the timing with the customer in the form of defined project deliverables.
• Establishing and maintaining a professional interaction / communication with the customer and being a main point of contact for the customer
• Making and driving decisions
• Thinking out of the box and contributing to optimize and apply new processes, methods and tools as well as how to make the customer relationship more valuable.
• Managing escalations as needed
• Involving program management pro-actively by providing project status reports. Sharing background information on decisions already made or to be made in the future
• Presenting project status taking account of internal and external information; monitoring, reporting and forecasting the current status of the project’s main targets in the dimensions of “Time”, “Cost” and “Quality / Maturity”; integrating the project team’s status reports and assessments

Requirements

• University degree: Engineering
• 5 years project management experience in automotive
• Japanese Customer interface experience
• Microsoft Office Skills
• Communication / Moderation ability across teams worldwide
• Japanese (Written and Speaking) Mandatory – mother tongue or N1+ level