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Hiring Company | Faurecia Clarion Electronics Co., Ltd. |
Location | Saitama Prefecture |
Job Type | Permanent Full-time |
Salary | 8 million yen ~ 13 million yen |
Essential responsibilities and duties :
Purpose of the job :
From program award until handover to production site, the program manager has the overall responsibility of the program in all aspects:
• Lead program team as functional manager, with an entrepreneurial mindset
• Meet financial targets (Operating Income, Cash, Internal Rate of Return, Upfront…)
• Ensure customer satisfaction (timing, quality, costs, product performance…)
• Plan and execute all activities which contribute to program success
• Anticipate and drive proper Risk Management
• Ensure compliance code of ethics and code of management and escalate non-compliance items according to guidelines
• Protect Faurecia interests and image
Responsibilities:
(S)he has to:
• Secure staffing of the Program Team on time
• Build and monitor Master Schedule
• Achieve program targets through development & deployment of program roadmaps and cascade program objectives and assignments to team members
• Use Business Plan to monitor permanently convergence to financial expectations
• Manage the core team and ensure cooperation with the functions and the plant(s),
• Apply Program Management System (with successful and on time achievement of work packages, mandatory deliverables and key program milestones)
• Identify risks and opportunities. Ensure risk management and alert process.
• Arbitrate top issues internally or externally within the program,
• Act as official Faurecia Program representative towards the customer to support its expectations while preserving company from risk exposure (like Engineering Change, planning…)
• Support or take the lead of commercial negotiations for contract evolutions
• Communicate and report relevant program status to secure proper management support on program issues
• Ensure that program experience is capitalized in knowledge management to improve future programs’ performance
Minimum Experience Level | Over 3 years |
Career Level | Mid Career |
Minimum English Level | Business Level (Amount Used: English usage about 50%) |
Minimum Japanese Level | Business Level |
Other Language | Chinese (Mandarin) |
Minimum Education Level | Bachelor's Degree |
Visa Status | Permission to work in Japan required |
Qualifications
The ideal candidate will have/be :
Minimum Education Level: Bachelor's degree, ideally in engineering
Experience:
• Experience in Engineering or Quality or Purchasing or Manufacturing in Automotive sector (car manufacturer/Tier)
• Demonstrate product and process engineer experience
• Team management experience
• Experience in budget control and profit enhancement
• Seniority of 3 years-experience as a program manager
Nice to have:
• International experience
• Chinese language
Skills and competencies:
Technical skills:
• Knowledge of quality tools (FMEA, design of experiment, “QRCI”/problem solving skills)
• Finance skills (master business plan calculation)
• Program management knowledge in particularly in matrix organization
• Ability to develop strong customer relationships at senior level
• English & Japanese business level
Behavioural skills:
• Negotiation skills & customer orientation
• Communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to coach, support and challenge his/her team
• Ability to manage a team in a matrix organization using management by objectives
• Network animation and influencing skills
• Ability to anticipate risks
• Accountability and transparency
• Ability to make quick and tough decision
• International mind set
• Entrepreneurship mindset
Job Type | Permanent Full-time |
Salary | 8 million yen ~ 13 million yen |
Industry | Automobile and Parts |
Company Type | Large Company (more than 300 employees) - International Company |