RESPONSIBILITY LEVEL:

Professional product development project managers in Wuxi, China

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.

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:

• 10+ 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