Takako Konstanzer-Yoshida

Lead car component projects from RfQ to SOP, report sales achievement to HQ: • Set strategic price with HQ, verify profit and negotiate with customer for RfQ. • Plan projects based on customer’s launching schedule and internal production preparation process. Negotiate critical schedules with customer and internal departments. • Report project progress to customer; capacity planning, tooling progress, quality inspection set-up, and manage requested documents.

Aligned 6 European subsidiaries as European headquarter. • Developed European FY budget which accounted for 30% + of worldwide consolidated revenue through negotiating with the Japanese headquarter and European subsidiaries. • Provided reports on the financial performance and FY forecasts of European operation to the board management worldwide. • Delivered project cost analysis and led cross-functional project teams for improving profitability in project level.

Developed project management standards for improving efficiency and effectiveness. • Led PMO team of 10 members. • Analysed the best practices, led development of standardized project management processes with project managers, negotiated process flows, input & output responsibilities with stakeholders. • Defined KPIs of processes for tracking efficiency and effectiveness. • Deployed processes in related departments, reported KPIs to board management, improved processes and KPIs in PDCA cycle.

Interface with OEM customer for telematics system development. • Negotiated performance-specification, aligned project schedule and maturity level plan with German customers and Japanese headquarter. • Managed evaluation of development maturity, set countermeasures with the Japanese development team for catch-up plan, reported maturity level to customer. • Managed customer development quality gate events.

Developed HMI & voice recognition of telematic systems for Japanese market. • Developed concept of operation, appearance and functions of telematic systems for Japanese market. • Interface with corporate designers, managed Japanese design. • Negotiated and fixed performance-specifications, cost and schedule of development with suppliers. • Supervised suppliers during development phase.

• Implemented simulation of a new generation user interface.

Multimedia information science (music technology)

applied mathematics (algorithms)