RESPONSIBILITY LEVEL:

Professional product development project managers in Wuxi, China

The Project Manager is responsible for the following:

• Execute the project through the phases of Product Development Process per the goals of the business
• Organize the cross-functional Project team and follow the Product Development Process
• Define the scaling of the process and design the Project plan in collaboration with the cross-functional team
• Manage the project KPIs including schedule, risks, costs, quality, and conduct Phase Gate/ Project reviews in a timely manner
• Promote decision making to balance internal/ external requirements and financial targets
• Facilitate business case with the project finance member, monitor the project budget
• Propose re-baseline the project if environment of the project is changed for the business case, schedule, costs, and prepare documents, review meetings for approval
• Lead the project team and assign the project tasks to achieve project budget, schedule, product cost, and quality targets
• Monitor the project status and progress and report to leaderships
• Facilitate issues resolution to mitigate the risks and to resolve the issues in a timely manner
• Escalate issues and request for supports to the appropriate leaderships when necessary
• Document outcomes (Standard, Process, Spec, BoM, Costs, Plans) of the project and hand over to the Line function at the end of the project.

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.

REQUIREMENTS:

Job Requirements:

• Deep understanding and passion for product development 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:

• 20+ years 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