Sr Staff Program Manager

We are seeking a highly motivated and disciplined Project/Program Manager to join our Central PMO office in Analog & Mixed-Signal Product Group.  In this role, you will exhibit full project ownership, acting as the go-to person for internal teams and managing assigned chip development projects from kick-off to customer release. You will lead cross-functional, geographically dispersed teams to deliver complex mixed-signal products, ensuring alignment with Renesas' global methodologies and strategic goals.

Responsibilities

• Manages assigned chip development projects of Configurable Mixed Signal portfolio within  the Core Analog Division (CAD) by leading cross functional geographically dispersed teams that are focused on the delivery of products from kick-off to release for customers.
• Develops, Defines, and executes project plans, schedules, budgets and deliverables for assigned projects.
• Exhibit full project ownership, become the go-to person for all internal teams for questions related to assigned projects and have total involvement in all phases of product development process from start to finish.
• Work with CAD/CMSD PMO portfolio lead responsible for tracking projects metrics/KPI such as schedule, risks, scope, budget, cost entitlement and manufacturability.
• Support Annual Operation Planning. Working with CAD PM leader to estimate, forecast, and manage individual project as well as program/portfolio spending to ensure actual spending tracks closely with forecast and avoid surprises.
• Maintain good discipline & practice guidelines, processes, and execution methodologies for team to continuously improve project execution.
• Build trust and collaborate closely with functional leadership from other functional teams for identifying and removing execution roadblocks, mitigate risks and improve efficiencies for continuously improving project execution.
• Collaborate with X-functional teams and with peers from other business groups to drive collaboration and harvest best practices and lessons learned to keep CAD Product group in sync with One Renesas methodologies, tools and systems.
• Work with demand creation, sales and marketing to align execution and sample priorities with market and customer needs to allow us to compete and win. Guide team to help prepare customer requested RFI, RFQ responses to bid on key business opportunities.
• Effectively communicate with leadership, with the team and across the organization to keep stakeholders, leadership informed of project status in periodic project reviews.
• Escalate early to identify and address issues before they start to impact execution metrics, if needed by establishing Tiger teams.
• Guide team to prepare and effectively report project status updates at management decision point reviews as well as cross functional project progress reviews.

Function: Manufacturing
Experience Level: Mid-Senior Level