Customer Program Manager, Europe (SDV & Vehicle Compute)

About the role

NXP is looking for a Customer Program Manager within its Automotive Processing & Systems organisation, based in Europe. The role works directly with leading European automotive customers, influences next-generation vehicle platforms and plays a key part in NXP's automotive growth strategy. It is a customer-facing position requiring strong programme leadership, technical credibility and the ability to coordinate global cross-functional teams.

Key responsibilities

• Lead strategic customer programmes across major European automotive customers, acting as the main interface between the customer and NXP.
• Drive customer adoption and deployment of NXP SDV, vehicle compute, networking and processor solutions from concept through production.
• Build trusted relationships with customer engineering, programme, purchasing and management stakeholders.
• Coordinate global cross-functional teams including engineering, applications, product management, quality, sales and business line organisations.
• Lead programme reviews, risk management, issue resolution and escalation, and close technical, quality and commercial issues through action plans.
• Support portfolio and roadmap discussions, and manage high-priority escalations and corrective actions.
• Provide programme leadership for key design wins and strategic growth opportunities, and support customer visits, executive reviews and business planning.

Required profile

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Electronics or a related technical discipline.
• Solid experience in automotive programme management, customer engineering, system engineering or product management.
• Experience working with automotive OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers and semiconductor products.
• Willingness to travel within Europe and internationally as required.

Required skills

• Proven ability to explain complex technical topics to engineering and management audiences.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills across global organisations.
• Ability to manage multiple complex programmes at once and drive issue resolution across teams.
• Strong organisational, planning and risk management skills.