Job Description

Project Manager position in Japan 

 

■ 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