Manager, Regional Project Management

Req ID: 128404 
Remote Position: Hybrid
Region: Asia 
Country: Thailand 
State/Province: Chonburi 
City:  Laem Chabang 

Summary

The Manager, Regional Project Management will take the challenge of become a key part in the interaction with customer’s technical teams at the same time ensuring the success of the Design and Engineering Services Team. 

Detailed Description

Performs tasks such as, but not limited to, the following:

• Become a key member of our corporate ATS Design and Engineering Services team, join a multinational and multicultural environment. Be responsible for leading a regional team project managers and working with site functional management teams, driving the development, implementation, and evaluation of complex designs and large projects with complex scope, multiple streams of work and inter-dependencies. Ensuring the team is executing projects according to the defined PMO process reporting project health metrics according to the defined rubric and maintaining the relevant project related files
• Participate in expanding/defining and refining the PMO process
• Lead and inspire our PM team, guiding and fostering their growth. Demonstrating ability to grow cross functional team members by identifying development opportunities. You will assist in resource planning, assign project management ownership for quotes and projects, effectively hire and train project managers to support the market/site strategic plan and continuously provide coaching and mentoring to the project management team to ensure career development.
• Be responsible of the delivery in design and build of new and innovative products and/or systems. You will manage strategic visibility programs (multiple projects per program) of high complexity (technology, organizationally) to meet or exceed programs objectives (Cost, Quality, Schedule, Customer Specific Needs, etc.). You will oversight for all active quotes/proposals and projects/programs within the design center.
• Drive consistency and standardization of project management good practices across the design team. Ensure PMO team members following governance/review policies
• Interface and reporting with customers and stakeholders both internal and external. Leading meetings with customers, business leaders, partners, etc. You will develop and leverage senior level relationships with external customers and internal partners (Sales, Operations, etc.) to drive customer success while also meeting the financial and strategic goals of Celestica.
• Support our front-end commercial team as a technical interface to solidify new opportunities.
• Have shared ownership with the site leadership team on the design center P&L while accountable to specific project P&Ls. You will keep focus on project delivery, quality, and financial performance and support project forecasting for future resource allocation planning and ensuring predictable financial commitments.

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

• Leadership attitude. Demonstrate people and team leadership behaviors and experience with focus in people development and coaching.
• Proven experience (proficiency) technical project management. Ability to manage/lead complex, multiple line engineering projects that may also involve other functions. Demonstrate solid understanding of the technical, financial and people aspects of the project.
• Demonstrate experience in different project environments, managing different frameworks and techniques (PMP, Agile…) as required
• Proven experience in product development from specifications to manufacturing in highly regulated markets
• Understanding of the EMS industry and transfer to manufacturing process for electronic assemblies. Advanced expertise on the manufacturing process, scheduling requirements and supply chain management.
• Ability to create financial plans for your projects, align them internally with your line of management and other functions and externally if needed.
• Solid experience in direct interaction with customers, technical teams and business partners either internal or external.
• Knowledge on product pricing and contract negotiation is an asset
• Experience in leading/coordinating development teams in the electronics development arena is an asset.
• Team-building attitude is a must.

Typical Experience

• 7-10 Years of experience as team lead / project manager, people leader.

Typical Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in a related technical field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Notes

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job. Job duties and the % of time identified for any function are subject to change at any time.

Celestica is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on any protected status (including race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran or disability status or other characteristics protected by law).
At Celestica we are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment, where all employees and customers feel valued, respected and supported. Special arrangements can be made for candidates who need it throughout the hiring process. Please indicate your needs and we will work with you to meet them.

COMPANY OVERVIEW:
Celestica (NYSE, TSX: CLS) enables the world’s best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, HealthTech, Industrial, Capital Equipment and Energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. As a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development – from drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services for products from advanced medical devices, to highly engineered aviation systems, to next-generation hardware platform solutions for the Cloud. Headquartered in Toronto, with talented teams spanning 40+ locations in 13 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers.

Celestica would like to thank all applicants, however, only qualified applicants will be contacted.
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