Project Manager

Responsibilities :

• Manage multiple projects concurrently at various stages of development, ensuring they meet strategic goals and project objectives.
• Develop an understanding of the universal remote control, hospitality, security, and home automation markets to effectively support customer and project requirements.
• Develop and maintain project schedules, dependencies, budgets, resource allocation plans, risk and mitigation plans for each assigned project in Project Portfolio Management software (KeyedIn).
• Lead cross-functional teams to drive decisions, resolve issues, and maintain alignment among engineering, operations, manufacturing, supply chain, quality, and customers.
• Monitor and document each assigned project’s progress and track key performance indicators (KPIs) in KeyedIn.
• Prepare and present executive-level project status, key risks, mitigation plans, and recovery plans to leadership and customers.
• Motivate project teams to meet or exceed project objectives.
• Drive project execution through proactive management of schedules, critical paths, risks, dependencies, and action items.
• Manage the development of turnkey products from concept through mass production based on customer requirements.
• Manage alternate part qualifications, factory transfers, engineering change requests.
• Collaborate effectively with global teams across North America, Europe, and Asia, with flexibility to support meetings across multiple time zones.
• Work with Project Managers in Asia, Mexico to coordinate manufacturing deliverables.
• Work with functional managers to ensure resource allocation to provide timely delivery of multiple concurrent development projects.
• Manage, maintain and service key OEM accounts and relationships.

Process and Development

• Identify and implement project and systematic improvements for increased execution efficiency.
• Align processes with the right software systems and confirm that processes are secured into systems, workflows, etc.

Qualifications / skills:

• 10+ years of overall industry experience with minimum 5+ years of Project Management Experience.
• Experience managing electronics or embedded hardware products.
• Experience with New Product Introduction (NPI).
• Experience working with OEM/ODM or manufacturing environments.
• Strong customer-facing communication skills.
• Excellent written and verbal English.
• Experience leading global cross-functional teams without direct authority.
• Successful execution of at least three projects in the past is preferred.
• Knowledge and experience managing projects with Agile, Waterfall and Hybrid methodologies is required.

Education, Licenses & Certification

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s (4-Year) degree in Electrical, Electronics or Software Engineering is required.
• A Project Management Professional (PMP) or PgMP certification from PMI is highly desirable, not required.