Automotive Customer Program Manager for China Region

This Customer Program Manager role for the China region supports NXP’s S32 automotive platforms, enabling software‑defined vehicle architectures across zonal, body, chassis, and safety‑critical applications. The position is ideal for a technically trained professional seeking hands‑on customer engagement and ownership of complex automotive programs.

Responsibilities:

• Drive successful customer ramps on NXPs S32 Automotive products/programs in SDV architectures across zonal, body, chassis and safety critical applications through technical support and coordination of internal resources to address the needs of the program.
• Build and maintain strong technical knowledge of S32 products and software, translating customer expectations into proactive actions to minimize risk and issues during new product introduction and launch into key customer programs.
• Develop and sustain strong customer relationships, leading regular technical reviews, status updates, and on‑site customer engagements to ensure alignment and execution excellence.
• Own and drive the resolution of customer issues, ensuring corrective actions are clearly defined, implemented, and tracked to closure.
• Support portfolio and escalation management for key customer issues, working closely with quality, engineering, and cross‑functional teams to drive timely and effective resolutions.
• Act as a trusted technical partner to customers, helping them leverage NXP products to achieve system‑level objectives within complex vehicle architectures.

Requirements:

• Strong customer‑facing presence, with excellent presentation, communication, and stakeholder‑management skills, capable of engaging effectively at both technical and management levels.

• A highly collaborative leader with the ability to build trusted, effective working relationships across global, cross‑functional teams.

• Demonstrated strong organizational and execution skills, with a clear commitment to ownership, accountability, and rapid follow‑through.

• Demonstrates a willingness to continuously learn and improve

• Confidence to challenge assumptions and decisions constructively, applying creative, solution‑oriented thinking to resolve issues and mitigate risk.

• Must be willing to travel domestically and internationally as required.

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