Senior Manager, Project and Program Management

Company Description

Renesas is one of the top global semiconductor companies in the world. We strive to develop a safer, healthier, greener, and smarter world, and our goal is to make every endpoint intelligent by offering product solutions in the automotive, industrial, infrastructure and IoT markets. Our robust product portfolio includes world leading MCUs, SoCs, analog and power products, plus Winning Combination solutions that curate these complementary products. We are a key supplier to the world’s leading manufacturers of electronics you rely on every day; you may not see our products, but they are all around you.

Renesas employs roughly 21,000 people in more than 30 countries worldwide. As a global team, our employees actively embody the Renesas Culture, our guiding principles based on five key elements: Transparent, Agile, Global, Innovative, and Entrepreneurial. Renesas believes in, and has a commitment to, diversity and inclusion, with initiatives and a leadership team dedicated to its resources and values. At Renesas, we want to build a sustainable future where technology helps make our lives easier. Join us and build your future by being part of what’s next in electronics and the world.

Job Description

About Operations Engineering Division (OED): OED is the central team that supports all Business Unit Design and Development teams, and other organizations including Sales, Marketing, Business Operations, Foundry Operations, and Test. OED provides a platform for managing all process technology and PDK development for both Internal and External Foundry processes. This strong and highly qualified team (mostly MS/PhD) adds strength in developing Test Technology, Foundry Operations, and Yield management. Our world class contributions lead to aggressive NPI strategies and continual cost and gross margin improvements.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Lead a worldwide team of project managers in managing projects in Operations Engineering (OED) and Operations (OPS) and engineers in developing solutions/tools to support Operations Engineering and Operations. Closely collaborate with all teams within OED team and Operations team as well as other teams like ISD, SW&D and Product Line BUs to provide timely execution of projects and solutions necessary to achieve the goals of the Operations/OED organization. The new hire is expected to:

• Under the team leader’s directive, execute strategic plan for the team in supporting OED and Operations organization in project management and developing solutions/tools.
• Maintain skills to ensure competence to perform agreed upon responsibilities.
• Align with manager’s goals and initiatives to meet agreed-upon KPIs.
• Work independently with little supervision.

Project Management Office (PMO):

• Support and assist in the establishment of a project management process, defining standards and requirements in which all projects managed by the Operations Engineering PMO organization will adhere to.
• Support process definition, documentation, management, and continual improvement to align with key stakeholders’ needs and requirements.
• Ensure that all projects managed comply with the standards and requirements established.
• Support and implement a set of standardized process and tools to track progress, execution and metrics of the projects (eg usage of issue tracking tools like JIRA, requirements management, Gantt chart visualization and Analytics/Metrics Reporting).
• Assignment of Project Managers for key projects.
• Oversee and monitor project progress and execution, managing risk, and minimizing escalations.

Project Management:

• Understand requirements priority and drive scoping and planning including interdependencies, staffing constraints and schedule optimization.
• Define, develop, and execute plans of record (project scope), including schedules, deliverables, risk assessment, project resourcing, monitoring, budget as per the defined project management process.
• Drive projects from initiation through delivery, interfacing with all key stakeholders across functions on technical matters.
• Use verbal and written communication skills to convey complex and/or detailed information to multiple individuals/audiences with differing knowledge levels. May require strong negotiation and powers of influence.
• Exercise creativity to innovate new processes and procedures to achieve established objectives.
• Manage project metrics and identify when they deviate significantly from Plan of Record.
• Escalate issues in a timely manner and propose and collaborate on corrective actions.

Tools Development & Solutions:

• Oversee development of customized tools specific to OED and Operations.
• Implement required tools to support PMO operations as needed.
• Support the Opera