Automotive Value Program Manager

A Career at HARMAN

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About the Role

The Automotive Value Program Manager is responsible for defining and executing value initiatives (estimated number of measures is +2000 measures every year) & strategy across HARMAN Automotive Division considering all Region, Business Units, Customer Products & Projects (pre- and post-SOP) with the focus on value increase & improvement on BOM, BOL, BOP, COPQ & Sustainability.

What You Will Do

• Ensure profitability of the division with day-to-day integration and tracking of ideas/measures to secure the pipeline vs. target, own the measures, and monitor VM ideas across the organization by being:

• Leader of Facilitating the generation of measures with functions and stakeholder

  • XSBU & XCG -> Automotive VM

  • Single SBU & Single CG -> SBU and or CG

  • Manufacturing -> Manufacturing

  • Quality -> Quality

  • CO2e improvement

• Definition, integrator of cross-functional team members in the Value Management cross-functional teams

• Lead, execute, and deliver the VM roadmap, vision, and strategy.

  • Fostering purpose-driven, highly effective teams with clear ownership & accountability

  • Ensure the efficiency of teams by mentoring team members and challenging the status quo

  • Lead the team to ensure transparency with data and analytics.

  • Drive measures based on input from procurement, manufacturing, engineering, customer group, and quality.

• Responsible and driver of risk assessment of measures

• Responsible and driver of feasibility studies based on given standards/constraints.

• Execute vision and strategy of the divisional Value Management activities with

  • Drive creation of a detailed implementation planning at the project & product level

  • Target delivery review, challenge, track implementation plans

  • Drive steering committee for implementation commitment

  • Owner of cross-functional meetings and reporting of status quo

  • Driving the cross-functional Value Management teams, Monitoring and Tracking of implementation progress.

• Ensure highly effective cross-functional teams to realize best-in-class cost improvements:

  • Fostering Team Integrity

  • Lead the VM Budget and request the VM Budget

• Leading overall VM communication and reporting to stakeholders:

  • Automotive Value Management Lead

  • Functional executive leadership

What You Need

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Economics

• Minimum 10 years of work experience as a Program Manager in the automotive business

• Minimum 12 years work experience in the following areas:

  • Cost engineering of electronic systems

  • Valuemangement knowledge of electronic systems

  • Design & development of electronic systems

  • Commercial basics in Procurement, controlling, and accounting

  • Design for Assembly experience in electronic systems

  • Automotive Quality processes

  • CO2e improvement

  • Professional knowledge in electronic, electrical & mechanical components integrated into an assembly

• Ability to solve complex technical topics through structure solutions.  Must be able to influence others to drive alignment on proposed technical and commercial cost initiatives.

• Ability to break down manufacturing assembly processes down to the component level

• Excellent presentation skills and demonstrated ability to present complex technical & commercial topics

What is Nice to Have

• Master’s degree

• Technical competency in electronic products (Electrical, Mechanical, Semiconductor components)

• Experience with a data-leveraged approach to driving progress & measuring results.

• German, Portuguese, or Chinese skills are a plus.

What Makes You Eligible

• Be willing to travel up to 20% international travel

• Be willing to work in an office in Novi, MI (hybrid)

What We Offer

• Access to employee discounts on world-cla