Project Manager position in Japan
■ Automotive Software Project Manager
■ Company Overview
World’s leading design and technology service provider.
■ Your Role and Responsibilities
● Japanese Native, with Automotive software experience
Understand customers project dynamics
a) Project Schedules & Changes
b) Technical specification changes
c) OEM requests and influence on planned activities
d) Lack of technical point clarity from Customer and/or OEM
● Able to clearly communicate with Customer and make both parties understand
● Must have technical and operational negotiation capability
● Person must be able to anticipate issues/surprises and take steps to mitigate
● Ensure customer satisfaction with actions and activities that reduce burden on customer engineers and managers
● Crisis & Risk Management – Identity project risks in advance and define mitigation plans.
● In case of any issues in the project, drive the root cause analysis and solutions
● Strong experience using PPT, XLS, MPP, JIRA, alternately project management tools etc.
● Exposure to ASPICE standards
● Define and Monitor project KPI’s for the assigned project. Provide and seek solutions for the deviations in the KPI’s defined
● Inform stakeholders about all engineering changes or delays in order to adjust schedule,
● Cost and/or specifications Implement countermeasures and escalate when project progress or results are unsatisfactory
● Act as a bridge/advisor for the cross-culture working and continuously propose improved working habits
■ Experience and Qualifications
● Fluency in English and Japanese Languages – read write speak
● Positive attitude to drive both customer and team in India
● Knowledge of Automotive software development – the life cycle
● Good to have basic understanding of AUTOSAR, MBD, Testing, HILS validation and tools used in SW development
● Good know how of project management tools like Jira, MPP, Excel, PPT etc
■ Additional Preferred Qualifications
● Demonstrate the leadership by pro-actively involved in the related task and leading it to conclusion.
●Guide the team members on his/her specialized field and support to resolve the issue/problem.
● Demonstrate leadership and constantly take on new challenges.
● Have a strong sense of ownership towards their work and can proactively tackle it on their own.
● Team player who sort to support and seek support as and when required.
● Follow the HoRenSo(報告・連絡・相談)
■ Work Location
● Tokyo &Nagoya