Rugby - Global Project Management Excellence

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Professional product development project managers in Kadi, India

The Project Management Excellence is responsible for the following:

• Ensure the team aware of and follow Product Development Process
• Owner of Product Development Process and rollout and continuous improvement
• Ensure project team understand the Product Development Process correctly by teaching and coaching
• Audit Product Development Process execution in project
• Report Product Development Process execution issues with corrective plan or precaution plan
• Follow up corrective plan or precaution plan and ensure the execution issue close.
• Monitor project KPIs with trend analysis monthly
• Support project management in Daptiv (Enterprise Project Management & Resource Management tool)
• Upgrade Process and provide guideline based on user challenges and feedback.
• Escalate issues and request for supports to the appropriate leaderships when necessary

He/she should be well versed in global & regional project management disciplines/processes/tools, capable of grasping how the company value chain works, have ability to think and act both locally and globally, and is both hands-on in terms of guiding his/her team with respect to adressing tactical execution issues relative to keeping projects on track.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES:

• Lead initiative execution across functions (for example, Product Management, Engineering, Procurement, Manufacturing, Marketing, Finance, and Sales).
• Anchor, Educate and Train project team in terms of Process, Standard and Governance in regard to
  • on-time,
  • at or below target cost,
  • meeting market requirements and consistent with JCH Product Attribute Leadership Strategy
  • launch quality, and
  • project budget and business case

• Overall project management improvement measures will include:
  • product development cycle-time reduction
  • share of market gain
  • cost of poor quality reduction
  • YoY product cost reduction

• Drive and track project management metrics for product development excellence and continuous improvement

• Operate the project management scorecard for overall project management execution
• Lead the project team to manage detailed work plans and action logs as tracking and feedback tools across all projects.  Establish a culture of strong project management as evidenced by the key performance indicators.

• Manage product development resources and budgets at a high-level helping to both shape and staff the overall product development roadmap.
• Identify areas requiring change management support and support activities as required
• Work directly with external support on specific initiatives (consulting, IT, etc.) – set scope and manage cadence/budge
• Improve our System, Process and Organization
• Improve and lead Engineering budget and resource planning by using Daptiv (Enterprise Project and Resource management tool)
• Develop and anchor Product Development process
• Improve Data quality in the systems
• Implement Agile development process for IoT & Software
• Manage ODM/ OEM project process and organization

REQUIREMENTS:

Job Requirements:

• Deep understanding and passion for product development process and operations of the company and its parent company, Johnson Controls, Inc.
• Deep understanding of cross-functional product development and team management of cross-functional project managers.
• Ability to structure work, manage projects, ideate and run processes/ tools
• Strong logical thinking and problem solving skills
• Ability to engage across the company functions, regions, and organization
• Strong analytical skills, particularly but not limited to financial literacy
• Strong written communication skills – ability to synthesize and communicate executive level messages
• Strong oral communication skills – ability to engage senior leadership and working level leaders
• Strong executive presence with ability to listen, collaborate, influence leaders across organization
• Team player and relationship builder
• Business level Chinse and English. Additional capability in Japanese preferred.
• High cross-cultural awareness
• Commitment to excellence

Experience:

• 6 – 7years of cumulative experience relative to engineering and product development project management in automotive, industrial goods, consumer products or durables manufacturing
• Operational track record of product development project management excellence especially including management of multi-location, multi-cultural project management teams
• Demonstrated experience and success developing project management skills and disciplines with relatively inexperienced team members and organizations
• Expert with respect with project management approaches, processes and tools
• Travel will vary based on business demands, but is estimated at 5-10%

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline required
• MBA preferred