Customer Program Manager, Europe (SDV & Vehicle Compute)

NXP Semiconductors; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

NXP Semiconductors in the United Kingdom is seeking a Customer Programme Manager to drive strategic engagements with major European automotive customers. You will coordinate global cross-functional teams to ensure successful adoption of NXP solutions from concept through production.

The role requires strong programme leadership, technical credibility and the ability to liaise with engineering and management stakeholders across OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers. Travel within Europe is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a technical discipline.
• Experience in automotive programme management or related field.
• Experience with automotive OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers and semiconductors.
• Strong communication to engineering and management audiences.
• Willingness to travel within Europe as required.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic customer programmes across major European automotive customers, acting as the primary programme management interface between the customer and NXP.
• Drive successful customer adoption and deployment of NXP SDV, vehicle compute, networking and processor solutions from concept through production.
• Develop 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 to deliver customer commitments.
• Lead programme reviews, risk management, issue resolution and escalation activities to maintain customer satisfaction and programme execution.
• Drive closure of technical, quality and commercial issues through structured action plans and executive follow-up.
• Support portfolio and roadmap discussions with customers, ensuring alignment between customer requirements and NXP strategy.
• Manage high-priority customer escalations and ensure corrective actions are effectively implemented.
• Provide programme leadership for key design wins and strategic growth opportunities.
• Support regular customer visits, executive reviews and business planning activities.

Skills

Programme management

Customer engagement

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Presentation skills

Education

Engineering degree

Computer Science degree

Job description

This role provides the opportunity to work directly with some of Europe's leading automotive customers, influence next-generation vehicle platforms and play a key role in NXP's automotive growth strategy while building long-term customer partnerships and future business opportunities. As a Customer Program Manager within the Automotive Processing & Systems organisation, you will drive strategic customer engagements across leading European OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers. Automotive is a core growth business for NXP, enabling the transition to Software Defined Vehicles (SDV), zonal architectures, vehicle compute and next-generation automotive software platforms. This is a customer-facing role requiring strong programme leadership, technical credibility and the ability to coordinate global cross-functional teams to ensure successful customer adoption of NXP solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic customer programmes across major European automotive customers, acting as the primary programme management interface between the customer and NXP.
• Drive successful customer adoption and deployment of NXP SDV, vehicle compute, networking and processor solutions from concept through production.
• Develop 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 to deliver customer commitments.
• Lead programme reviews, risk management, issue resolution and escalation activities to maintain customer satisfaction and programme execution.
• Drive closure of technical, quality and commercial issues through structured action plans and executive follow-up.
• Support portfolio and roadmap discussions with customers, ensuring alignment between customer requirements and NXP strategy.
• Manage high-priority customer escalations and ensure corrective actions are effectively implemented.
• Provide programme leadership for key design wins and strategic growth opportunities.
• Support regular customer visits, executive reviews and business planning activities.

Requirements

• 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.
• Proven ability to communicate complex technical topics to both engineering and management audiences.
• Excellent customer-facing, presentation, and communication skills.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing capabilities across global organisations.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple complex programmes simultaneously.
• Experience driving issue resolution across cross-functional teams.
• Strong organisational, planning and risk management skills.
• Willingness to travel within Europe and internationally as required.

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