Senior Manager, Project and Program Management - Renesas Electronics

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.

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 Operations Digital Platform Strategy, collaborating with the Operations, IT and other teams on the technology implementation of Azure Data Lake. Support development of Azure Databricks and Azure ML + MLFlow.
• Proactively analyze data to answer key questions for stakeholders or yourself, with an eye on what drives business performance, and investigate and communicate which areas need improvement in efficiency and productivity.
• Create and maintain rich interactive visualizations through data interpretation and analysis, with reporting components from multiple data sources
• Define and implement data acquisition and integration logic, selecting an appropriate combination of methods and tools within the defined technology stack to ensure optimal scalability and performance of the solution.
• Develop and maintain databases by acquiring data from primary and secondary sources, and build scripts that will make our data evaluation process more flexible or scalable across datasets.
• Collaborate with IT on common tool usage, cloud usage, infrastructure, security, and other system usage.
• Collaborate with third party vendors like Microsoft, Amazon, Google etc (for configuration/development of solutions for Azure, AWS or GCP).
• Configure and Manage Sharepoint for OED.

Team Leadership / Management

• Lead and manage project managers, adhering to the project management process established.
• Lead and manage engineers to support providing the required technology solutions.

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, function-related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years’ experience (combined) working in Engineering (in Semiconductor Industry), IT and Software Development (preferably a minimum of 3 years in each of the three disciplines).

Additional, Desired Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, other function-related discipline, or BA/MA in Business Administration.
• Technical Program Management certification.
• 5+ years in Project Management
• 3+ years of work experience in a role requiring interaction with senior leadership (e.g., Director level and above)
• 2+ years of experience with project management tools such as dashboards, Gantt charts
• Language proficiency (written or verbal): Japanese or Chinese.

Renesas offers a full range of elective benefits including medical, health savings account (with applicable medical plan), dental, vision, health and/or dependent care flexible spending accounts, pre-tax commuter benefits, life insurance, AD&D, and pet insurance. In addition to elective benefit options, benefited employees receive company-paid life insurance and AD&D, LTD, short term medical benefits as well as paid sick time, paid holidays, and accrued paid vacation. New employees will attend a detailed benefit orientation to learn more about our many benefits and resources. 
 

Renesas Electronics Corporation empowers a safer, smarter and more sustainable future where technology helps make our lives easier. The leading global provider of microcontrollers, Renesas combines our expertise in embedded processing, analog, power and connectivity to deliver complete semiconductor solutions. These Winning Combinations accelerate time to market for automotive, industrial, infrastructure and IoT applications, enabling billions of connected, intelligent devices that enhance the way people work and live. Learn more at renesas.com.

Renesas’ mission, To Make Our Lives Easier, is underpinned by our company culture, TAGIE. TAGIE stands for Transparent, Agile, Global, Innovative and Entrepreneurial. Our goal is to embed this unique culture in everything we do to succeed as a company and create trust with our diverse colleagues, customers and stakeholders.

Renesas Electronics is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, committed to celebrating diversity and fostering a work environment free of discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military status, veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law.