Harman

About the Role

The primary responsibility is to develop the hardware/software architecture/internal requirement document according to analysis on customer requirement and internal platform requirement and provide decomposed major building blocks to related disciplines in Harman, as a project manager. This position will be the bridge between the customer and internal engineering and testing teams and clarify customer requirement with customer/internal teams in order to avoid any misunderstanding and/or misinterpretation and to prevent any conflict/gap between customer requirement and internal platform requirement. This position will be also driving the internal team based on BMS, project needs, and customer requirements. The Successful candidate will have demonstrated to track records of success with telematics engineering and customer facing interaction. Your Team

Position will report to lead PM of program and organization perspective to report head of customer program management.

What You Will Do

· Overall program responsibility for the realization of Telematics Programs

· Steering of international and cross functional project teams

· Responsibility to deliver the product according to agreed targets (schedule, budget, quality)

· Control and optimize project costs (e.g. BOM, BOL, development, qualification, production preparation)

· Top level planning and controlling

· Align technical and commercial program targets with functional departments Responsible for change management

· processes (incl. internal/external Change Control Boards)

· Technical interface towards OEM-customer for all aspects of technical status, program progress and product alignment

· Responsible for the transition from prototyping to production incl. ramp-up

· Active steering during RFI/RFQ-phase to compile feasibility studies and to complete product performance

· Reporting towards customer and internal incl. management board

· Program execution according to HARMAN Project Life Cycle Management Processes (PLM / PMI PM Book)

What You Need

· University degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent discipline

· At least 5+ years of experience in Program Management, Program Execution & Engineering

· Proven project management experience

· Ability to manage multifunctional teams in worldwide locations

· Strong customer focus required

· Working knowledge of program Management development tools (Doors, MS-Project, own HARMAN Tools like ProPer, etc.)

· Working knowledge of Telematics technologies

· Fluent Japanese/English verbal and written communication skills

· Fundamental knowledge in terms of methodologies in project management

· Ability to mediate between conflict parties

What is Nice to Have

· Proactivity and good communication skills

· Excellent task and time management

· Attention to detail and “can do” attitude

· Flexibility

· Highly organized and multitasking

· Reliable and trustworthy

· Analytical & critical thinking

· Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines

What Makes You Eligible

· Willingness to work in our offices in Japan

· Willingness to travel 50-70% of the time both domestic (Kanagawa) and international (Thailand, IMTC)

· This position requires the use of a HARMAN or customer-owned vehicle. As such, any offer of employment will be contingent upon having a clean driving record, which will be evaluated and determined in HARMAN’s sole discretion, no more than 4 active points for moving violations (issued by any motor vehicle agency), and no references to operating a vehicle under the influence of controlled substances within the last 10 years