Project Management Engineer - Commercial Vehicle (Chinese Speaking preferred)

About the role:

Project Management Engineer is the essential link between Customer, Sales, R&D, Factory, external partners, and other related departments in the whole project phase from order to delivery. Project Management Engineer manages multiple stakeholders and projects simultaneously, collaborating with intercontinental cross-functional teams and B2B customers. At BYD, Project and program management team consists of a team in Shenzhen and in Europe and UK.

Work location: London

Reports to: Sales Project Manager

Key responsibilities:

• Manage the entire lifecycle of new orders, from initiation and production to delivery.

• Collect and organize milestone events, key project phases, and deliverables throughout the project lifecycle, oversee the delivery follow-up of vehicles to overseas terminals.

• Communicate with overseas market customers, support sales efforts to expand the market, and participate in market demand research.

• Coordinate internal resources and third parties/vendors for project execution, lead meetings and provide clear communication to stakeholders at all levels.

• Ensure resource availability and allocation, support and arrange the bus PDI (pre-delivery inspection) task.

• Perform risk management to minimize project risks.

• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation.

• Any reasonable duties assigned by Managers.

Main duties:

• Develop a trusted, collaborative partnership with customers and PDI workshops.

• Transfer in efficient way all the requests from customers to BYD organization.

• Plan delivery key activities involving all the relevant stakeholders internal and external (customer, PDI workshop, on-board system suppliers, etc.).

• Be able to understand technical problems and solutions to be implemented to smooth communication between BYD and external stakeholders.

• Project status reporting: open points tracking and risk analysis during the entire product development phase.

• Work under time constraints to meet specific timelines and in a high pace environment.

• High level of proactivity is mandatory; be able to anticipate the project risks and activities.

• Work independently organizing visits on site to strengthen customer relationships, pre-inspection in production sites and to supervise PDIs activities in the region

Requirements & competencies:

• Minimum Bachelor Degree, technical background is preferred.

• Proven track record in the transport or automotive industry; 5-year experience is a must.

• Experience in cross-cultural management, client management and conflict management, strong sense of responsibility and ownership.

• Proactive and collaborative approach to problem solving.

• Strong leadership skills and creative thinking.

• Excellent time management and organizational skills, ability to work under pressure.

• Good command of English and English is essential, both written and verbal.

• Able to speak, read and write in Chinese (Mandarin) is an advantage.

• Computer knowledge and proficiency, including MS Office and MS Project.

• Able to travel on a regular basis to customers in Germany, and occasional travel to BYD offices in EU, BYD Hungary factory and China.
  

We offer:

• Performance and experience-based competitive remuneration

• Scottish Widows workplace pension

• Commuting Allowance

• Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme

• 25 days paid holidays + public holidays

• Private Health care

• Department & company-wide team building events.

• An exciting opportunity to lead the European transition to zero-emissions transportation and decarbonization of the economy.