Project Manager

System Innovation (SI) is part of the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Innovation Management and System Enablement (IM&SE) at NXP.

The System Innovation (SI) group serves as a trusted advisor and strategic partner to Business Lines, GSM, and customers, driving forward-looking system and application innovations across NXP. The team accelerates insight creation by developing and demonstrating tangible system and application proof‑of‑concepts that showcase NXP’s capabilities both internally and to external customers. With a strong focus on anticipating future technology trends, the group gathers and translates innovative system and application insights into meaningful input for BL roadmaps. System Innovation also cultivates and maintains strong partnerships across customers and the broader ecosystem—including universities, research institutes, and collaborative project consortia—to enhance innovation and accelerate new business development. By supporting emerging markets and integrating technologies, IP, and products across all NXP entities, the group enables cross‑portfolio solutions that highlight the full potential of NXP’s competencies and technology leadership.

Job Summary

We are seeking a Project Manager with a strong technical background who can understand the key challenges, technical aspects, and strategic goals of our projects. This role focuses on innovation-driven projects rather than NPI, including subsidy‑funded initiatives, long‑term innovation (LTI) programs, and NXP business–funded projects. You will work closely with external partners and navigate a broader ecosystem of stakeholders, ensuring alignment, collaboration, and delivery excellence.

The ideal candidate brings structure to projects, teams, and stakeholder interactions. You will be responsible for planning, tracking schedules and costs, monitoring progress, and guaranteeing the completion of deliverables. Strong reporting to management and stakeholders is essential—clear, accurate, and actionable communication is expected. A proactive mindset is key: you should take early and decisive actions to keep projects on track, identify risks, and drive solutions.

This position requires someone who thrives in a dynamic environment, manages multiple demands, and ensures that projects progress predictably from concept through execution.

Job Qualification

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Electronics Engineering or a related field
• 3–5 years of experience in a Project Manager role
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple small projects (3–5 FTE) in parallel
• Brings strong structure to projects, teams, and stakeholder reporting, ensuring clarity, alignment, and predictable execution
• Strong communication skills with a solution-oriented and motivational approach
• Effective communicator: able to articulate ideas clearly and concisely, tailor messages to different audiences, and present information in a way that motivates teams
• Proactive in ambiguous environments: capable of progressing despite unclear or evolving situations, finding compromises, and defining scope and boundaries to create structure
• Strong follow-through: consistently tracks project status, keeps stakeholders informed, ensures team members understand responsibilities, reallocates resources to overcome challenges, and escalates issues when needed
• Self-driven with strong stakeholder management skills to achieve results
• Clear and compelling presenter with strong storytelling abilities and the capacity to influence others

Remarks

The position requires to work on-site in NXP Eindhoven office minimum 3 days per week.

Creating Secure Connections and Infrastructure for a Smarter World

NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) makes products and environments safer, more sustainable, and more secure with innovative connectivity and edge processing solutions for a smarter world.

We are in the business of better. Not just better technologies, but better innovations to improve society. As the world leader in secure connectivity and processing solutions for embedded applications, NXP is solving the world’s most complex technology challenges to accelerate business innovation, enhance how we work, and advance how we live.

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To learn more about NXP in the Netherlands, click here.

What can you expect

Benefits: Besides a competitive salary, we offer great benefits as part of our CLA. A bonus plan, the possibility to purchase extra holidays, an excellent pension plan, a work from home policy, and the possibility to buy company shares with a 15% discount are some examples. When applicable we also provide a relocation package and support for your move to the Netherlands.

Development opportunities: We believe that a key component to growing our business is to develop our people. To enable you to grow your career at NXP, we provide you with a mix of learning through on-the-job experiences, learning from industry bests, and learning through education to help you develop your core and professional skills. 

Our offices: The Netherlands is home to our global headquarters (Eindhoven) along with two additional sites (Nijmegen, Delft) and includes a diverse team of over 2000 employees with 51 different nationalities focused on R&D, manufacturing, product development, business operations, legal and sales.

Hiring process: Applying only takes a minute! Fill in the online application and share your CV with us.

And more: Life at NXP is more than work alone. Join one of the many social activities that are organized by and for employees in the Netherlands, such as our Christmas parties and International Walking Day. We have a YOUNG community that organizes a mix of social and professional events for our young professionals and an active Women in Technology network. We also take time to give back to our communities by engaging young girls to learn about Technology during Girls Day or participating in several volunteering activities.

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